Tools for Research

Doing archival research

• DoHistory
• Five Colleges' Primary Source Research Guide
• Mt. Holyoke's Conducting Primary Research
• National Archives' Research Tips
• National Archives' information for Genealogists/Family Historians
• Yale's Using Archives & Manuscripts Tutorial

Old writing

• Palaeography: reading old handwriting
• Beginner's Latin, 1086 and 1733

Calendars

• Today in Health History
• Virtual Perpetual Calendars
• Perpetual Calendar applet
• Calendar Calculator

Copyright

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
• Copyright Renewal Database for items in that 1923-1963 limbo
• Copyown: a resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community

Your own collections

• Society of California Archivists' Preserving Your History Brochure Series
• Northeast Document Conservation Center: Resources for Private and Family Collections
• Guide to Donating Your Personal or Family Papers to a Repository
• Guide to Donating Your Organizational Records to a Repository
• Deeds of Gift: What Donors Should Know
• A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology

HIPAA

• HIPAA at Stanford
• SAA's Science, Technology & Healthcare Roundtable HIPAA Resource Page