A blog from Gale International
Hear from our team of Gale Student Ambassadors as they explore issues of relevance to students – from undergraduate to PhD level.
Many of these posts provide Study Tips and Tricks, revealing how to make the most out of digital primary source archives, as well as the many other digital library resources available from Gale.
Adding primary sources or contextual content to your work might just push up your grade!
│by Pollie Walker, Gale Ambassador at the University of Liverpool │
At the University of Liverpool, students are lucky enough to have a vast wealth of primary sources easily accessible to us – and that shouldn’t go unnoticed! Coming to Gale Primary Sources via the Liverpool University library page, I was able to access some excellent sources about the women’s suffrage movement in Iowa from 1894 through to 1937.
│ by Kyle Sheldrake, Strategic Marketing Manager – Insight and Development │
Primary sources are a valuable resource in research projects, and digitised primary sources combine two advantages: the speed of identifying sources via targeted searching with having thousands of sources at your fingertips whenever they’re needed. The process of creating our Long Read on the Berlin Wall reminded me a lot of the essay writing process at university, so I thought this would be a good example to explain how to break down the process of gathering and assessing primary source material for a research piece, as this may be helpful to our student readers looking to incorporate primary sources into their essays.