Databases
Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, go to the University Libraries home page, then click on Databases.
Abstracts
in Anthropology - Covers a broad spectrum of anthropological topics from several hundred periodicals including cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. Man's speech, physiology, artifacts, history, environment, and social relations are described, analyzed, interpreted, and compared within the human and animal realms
- Dates of coverage: 2000+
- Also in print: ref GN 1 .A15 from 1970+
- Produced by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Contains citations for over 750 journals in anthropology and archaeology but provides only minimal coverage of relevant literature from non-anthropology journals
- Emphasis on sociocultural anthropology and ethnology
- Somewhat difficult to use; limited ability for extensive subject searching
- Dates of coverage: nominally 1965+
Early Encounters in North America
- Reveals the the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850
- Provides letters, diaries, memoirs, prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, photographs, and original facsimile pages
- Focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women
- The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States, with some coverage of Mexico.
- News, culture and history from several hundred U.S. publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press
- Full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press
- Dates vary by title with most beginning full text coverage in the 1990s. A few date as far back as the 1960s
SocIndex with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)
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Comprehensive coverage of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology
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Key topics: demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse & other addictions, violence, etc.
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Covers articles from 4,000+ journals and the full text of conference papers and hundreds of books
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Abstracts of some core journals 1895+
Expanded
Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
- Citations, abstracts and some full text for almost 4,500 English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas. Forty-three of the core journals in anthropology are indexed
- Most titles owned by UNCG library
- Dates of coverage: 1980+; full text coverage varies by title
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- Mainly full-text coverage of approximately 2,500 scholarly journals, both general and specialized including over 40 of the core anthropology titles
- Similar in coverage to Expanded Academic ASAP
- 1971+; full text coverage varies by title
- More info
- Provides the complete digitized text of about two dozen anthropology and archaeology journals
- Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal and includes all but the last 3-5 years
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Our largest multi-disciplinary, full text database
- Abstracts and indexes several thousand magazines and journals, many peer-reviewed
- Full-text anthropology titles are primarily those from Britain and the Commonwealth countries
- Dates of coverage: varies by journal
- More info
Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews
Arts and Humanities Search (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- A citation index to 1,000+ of the world's leading arts and humanities journals including many of the core archaeology journals
- The citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms
- Cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other, later works that cite it
- Covers articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more
- 1980+
- Indexing and abstracts for thousands of peer-reviewed science and social science journals
- The citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms
- Cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other, later works that cite it
- Database is searchable by topic, author, source title, and address
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
- 1956+
Anthropology Resources
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Nancy Ryckman
Anthropology Librarian
