Databases for Anthropology
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Key Databases
- Anthropology Plus
- Indexes articles on all anthropological topics. Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK, 19th century to present
- AnthroSource
- Current issues of the key American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, with full-text archive of all AAA publications to be completed in 2007
- Anthropological Index Online
- Indexes journal literature held in the Anthropology Library at the British Museum, 1957 to present
Additional Databases
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Indexes and abstracts journal articles in sociology and includes the full text for a select number of titles, 1895 to present.
- Art Abstracts
- Indexes periodicals, exhibition listings, museum bulletins, yearbooks, interviews, competition and award notices, and book and film reviews in more than 250 key international, mostly English-language journals in the visual arts, 1984 to present
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics
- MLA Bibliography
- Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and proceedings in literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1963 to present
- ATLA Religion Database
- Indexes journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of world religions, 1949 to present
- BIOSIS Previews
- Indexes nearly 6000 international journals in the life sciences, 1969 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Project Muse
- Full text access to over 160 journal titles, the bulk of which are produced by university presses
- Web of Science (multidisciplinary)
- Indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1945 to present) and the social sciences (1956 to present) and the arts and humanities (1975 to present). Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
