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Library Media Collections

Open resource, or free, videos are online. Noteworthy collections include:

Sample TED Talk video

Podcasts

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NU authentication is required to access the following current and historical news sources:

Selected Open Resource Newspapers

What are primary sources?

Some examples of Primary Sources:

  •  Audio recordings of a speech or oral history
  •  Autobiographies, diaries, or letters
  •  Certain government documents, such as congressional hearings or agency reports
  •  Interviews
  •  Journal articles which report first hand observations
  •  Newspaper accounts of events
  •  Photographs or moving images of an event
  •  Records of an organization, often kept in Archives

 

Primary Source Collections include:

  • Story Corps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Archived at the Library of Congress, the digital archive is "the largest collection of human voices eer gathered. One collection is Story Corps Working.

 

Selected open resource collections