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Anthropology Websites

    American Anthropological Association

    Anthropology in the News
    Provides links to anthropology-related news stories from ABC, CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Nando, Archaeology, university press releases and other sources. Some services require that you register and select a password in order to retrieve articles, but none charge a fee to retrieve news stories. From the Anthropology Department of Texas A&M University.

    Anthropology Links
    From Voice of the Shuttle: Website for Humanities Research. See also the Archaeology links page.

    Anthropology Resources on the Internet
    From the American Anthropological Association.

    Anthropology Review Database
    "We aim to produce a high quality, user-friendly resource that will aid scholars in keeping abreast of, and evaluating the quality of, the rapidly expanding literature in anthropology and its sister fields... Currently the database contains the signed, refereed reviews we publish ourselves, citations to those published in American Antiquity and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, as well as links to a number of online publications and sites. "
    -Anthropology Review Database website, General Information section.

    Data on the Net
    A "listing of 361 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more."

    Ethnographic Resources Related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities
    An extensive directory of links (including scholarly programs, musuems and archives, online presentations of archival collections, grants and awards, journals and newsletters, societies, fieldwork, indigenous peoples' resources, mythology and narrative) provided by the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center.

    Ethnography and Anthropology - Social Science Information Gateway
    "Aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law."

    Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists
    An excellent compilation of links to data set resources. From Cornell University's Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research.

    National Archaeological Database - Reports
    "The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S." - NADB-Reports website
    Please note that this site provides indexing for, but not the full-text of, archaeological reports.

    Public Anthropology
    Created by Robert Borofsky of Hawaii Pacific University, this site features the Anthropology Journals Archive Project. The project makes available summaries (written by graduate and undergraduate anthropology students) of select articles from American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Human Organization and Anthropologica. The site also offers an explanation of public anthropology, a photo gallery, excerpts from essays and papers by noted anthropologists, and featured web links.

Anthropology Course Guides
Last updated November 15, 2005

Article Database Comparison Chart: Anthropology
Use this chart to select the database that best meets your search needs
Last updated October 22, 2006
Index / Platform Scope Source materials Date range Record type* # of entries Update frequency Truncation & Wildcards**
Anthropology Plus / RLG Eureka (more info) Social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
Journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries

Late 19th century - present

Citation 838,385 entries Monthly trunc = ?
AnthroSource (more info) Anthropology and related fields. The American Anthropological Association's (AAA) peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins, including a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003. 1880's to the present Abstracts, some full-text Information not provided Information not provided trunc = *
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ARTstor
(more info)		 Artistic traditions across many times and cultures: architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.     Images Approximately 300,000 images    

Bibliography of Native North Americans / EBSCOhost (more info)

All aspects of native North American culture, history, and life, including topics such as archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
Books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents
 16th century - present Citation Over 80,000 entries Information not provided

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Clase and Periodica / First Search (more info)

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.

PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
 1975 - present Citation More than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals
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Current Contents / ISI (more info) Five multidisciplinary collections that can be searched together or separately (select the Social & Behavioral Sciences option to search within Anthropology journals)
Peer-reviewed research journals, books, proceedings, evaluated web sites
 Approx. 1998-present Citation, some abstracts, web links Thousands of entries from 7,600 peer-reviewed journals, books and proceedings Daily trunc/wild = * (stands for more than one character)

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EHRAF (more info) Full-text descriptive information on selected cultures throughout the world. Includes information on all aspects of cultural & social life.
Books, articles, dissertations
 19th & 20th centuries Full text Information not provided Information not provided

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Ethnic Newswatch / ProQuest (more info) Local, national, and international news, culture and history
Newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
 1960 - present Full text Over 700,000 entries from over 230 publications Monthly

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Handbook of Latin American Studies (more info) Bibliography of humanities and social sciences resources relating to Latin America
Books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers
Approx. 1935 - present Citation and annotation 5,000 added per year (total number not available) Annually trunc = * 
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (more info) Authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Content ranges from analyses of current political, economic, and social issues, to coverage of Latin American arts and letters.
Articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials
1970-present Citation 210,000+ entries from over 500 sources Information not available

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PrimateLit / (more info) Scientific literature on nonhuman primates. Subject areas include behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, diseas models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography. Journal articles, abstracts, books, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, essays 1940- present Citation, some weblinks Information not available Twice a month

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Social Services Abstracts / CSA (more info) Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Journal articles, dissertations, book reviews
 1980 - present Citation and abstract Over 95,000 entries from over 1,400 publications Monthly

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SocIndex / EBSCOhost (more info) Sociology and subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
Journals, books and conference papers
 1895-present Citation, abstract and some full-text Over 1,300,000 entries Information not available trunc = *
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Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs) / CSA (more info) Sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences
Journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
 1963-present Abstract 620,000+ articles from 1,800+ journals and other sources Monthly trunc = *
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*Record type: A citation provides basic bibliographic information about an article (the title, author, date, page, source journal, etc.). You can then use this information to locate the article either in print on the library's ground floor, or in electronic format through full text providers like JSTOR or Project Muse. An abstract is a short summary of the article's contents or main points. Full text records provide you with the complete text of the article itself in addition to citation information.

**The use of truncation and wildcards can expand your search results by allowing you to search for multiple variants of a word and/or by allowing you to search for words for which you are unsure of the spelling.  For example, a search for colon* in Sociological Abstracts will bring results including the words colony, colonial, colonialism, colonization, etc. A search for wom?n will bring results including the words woman or women.