ATY 524 Applied Anthropology
Library
Spaces: Information about places in the library for individuals or groups
to study or prepare for presentations
Selected Dictionaries
and Encyclopedias
These specialized books provide background
information on your topic or help with definitions. Note the various call number
areas. Browse those call number areas in Reference or the stacks for similar
books. Academic disciplines will vary in their viewpoints of the same topic.
Encyclopedia
of Anthropology
H. James Birx, ed., 2006, 5 vol.
also in print. Location: ref. GN11 .E63
Databases
Databases are subject guides to magazines,
journals, or newspapers. The following titles are suggested starting points.
To get to the complete list of databases, go to The
University Libraries home page, click on Databases,
then the starting letter of the database or department name. Think about what
departments on campus might cover material in your subject area, then click
on that department name to see which databases we recommend.
Tips:
- When researching your topic try a variety of subject headings for the same
concept
- Watch this flash
tutorial for help identifying primary sources
- Click here for tips on using the search
connectors AND, OR, and NOT in your search strategy
- If AND and OR are used in the same search, the terms connected by OR must
be in parentheses ( )
e.g. (anthropology or anthropological) and obesity
Abstracts
in Anthropology
- Subjects: cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics,
artifacts, history, social relations
- Dates of coverage: 2000 to present
- Also in print: ref IndexAbstract area GN 1 .A15 from 1970 to 1999
Anthropological
Index Online
- Citations but no full text from hundreds of journals in anthropology and
archaeology; minimal coverage of relevant literature from non-anthropology
journals
- British publication with emphasis on sociocultural anthropology and ethnology
- Dates of coverage: nominally 1965 to the present
Academic
Search Premier
- Large, multidisciplinary, full text database with complete articles from
several of the major anthropology journals
- Indexing from 1984+; full text 1990+ for most titles; selected titles with
full text from 1975
EBSCO
Databases
- This link goes to a list of databases. To search for some health, safety,
or environmental topics in a combination of interdisciplinary and health-related
journals, put a check mark in front of the following databases: Academic Search
Premier, Health Source-Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition,
and MasterFILE Premier. Scroll to the top or bottom of the page and click
Continue. Enter your search strategy in the Find box. e.g. primary health
care and access
- Depending on your topic you may want to include some of the Biology databases
in your search
- The Nursing and Health journals may not have enough information for some
health topics. Try the Medline database for more complete coverage of medicine,
public health, and psychiatry.
- Considerable full text of journal articles
- Dates of coverage vary by title
Agricola via the National Agricultural Library
- Subjects: all aspects of agriculture, including agricultural economics,
geography, home economics, human nutrition, life sciences, food science, rural
sociology, deforestation, water quality, etc.
- No full text
- Covers journals, government reports, books, manuscripts, and dissertations
- Dates of coverage: 1970 to present
JSTOR
- Full text for several hundred scholarly journals including about two dozen
anthropology and archaeology journals.
- Also covers journals concerned with world regional studies, population
studies, botany, ecology, general science, sociology, geography, and public
policy
- Coverage begins with volume 1 but does not include the last 3-5 years for
any title
- Search by subject or browse by title and contents.
Humanities
and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes core scholarly anthropology journals published between 1907 and
1984
- Includes citations but no full text to more than a million articles
Arts and Humanities
Search
- Includes many of the core anthropology journals
- Search by subject, author, citation, or cited references
- Citation database: find references cited by the authors of the journal articles,
i.e. the footnotes
- Cited reference search: search for articles that have cited a previously
published work
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, reviews, and more.
- 1980 to the present
Web
of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index)
- Similar to Arts and Humanities Search but emphasizing more of the sciences
- Citation database: find references cited by the authors of the journal articles,
i.e. the footnotes
- Cited reference search: search for articles that have cited a previously
published work
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, review papers, etc.
- Covers 1956 to date.
Pubmed/Medline
- Indexes articles from leading medical and life sciences journals
- Subjects: medicine, biology, microbiology, environmental health, nutrition,
public health, anatomy, physiology, genetics
- Citations, no full text
Lexis-Nexis
- Full text articles from thousands of journals, magazines, transcripts of
radio and television news broadcasts, newspapers, editorials, newsletters,
etc.
- Especially good for short articles on current issues and for newspaper articles
on issues and programs relevant to a particular geographic area.
- Includes regional, national, and foreign news sources.
- Range of dates covered vary by publication.
-
To find articles on North Carolina:
--Click on Sources (beige tab)
--In the list of Publication Types click
on News
--Over 200 sources are listed. The link to
North Carolina News Sources is on the next screen. Find it and check the
box.
--Scroll
to the bottom of the screen and click the red box OK-Continue
--You
should be back at the search screen. Enter your search terms
--In the box by Specify Date select a time
period from the pull-down menu
--Click on the red Search box
- The "Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review articles,
state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law (e.g. North Carolina
General Statutes), and federal regulations (from government agencies).
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
- Citations and/or abstracts (no full text) from professional journals as
well as books, popular literature, conference papers, and government reports.
- Research, policy and practice literature in the fields of family science,
human ecology and human development.
- Considerable Australian material. Limited number of indexed materials
available in Jackson Library.
- Covers 1970 to present.
Finding Individual Journal Articles Using "Journal
Finder"
- Use Journal Finder to locate the text of an article accessible
through The University Libraries. The article may be online, in print, or in both
formats
- Link to Journal
Finder
-
Enter the
journal name (not the article title)
such as
Human Organization in the title box and press the
Enter
key or click
Search
- If the title appears, click on the icon for the method
of access you want
- Click on the computer icon to find full text online access
to some articles
- The database(s) and dates for full text are displayed
- Choose a database and follow any instructions for finding specific
journal titles
- Click on the book icon to locate print issues of the journal
in the Library
- The record shown will provide the holdings and location of the
journal
- Older years of journals are either bound and shelved by call
number with the book collection in the stacks or are on microfilm
arranged by film number in the microforms area on 2nd
Floor Main
- Current issues are available on the Jackson Study Lounge shelves
on 1st Floor Main
- Click on the envelope icon for mail or electronic delivery of the article
- Click on the car icon to check whether other libraries own this
title
Useful Web Sites
Link
to Amer. Anthropological Assn citation style (Chicago Style)
Anthropology Resources
on the Internet (American Anthropological Association)
World Health Organization (U.N.)
Food and Agriculture Organization
(U.N.)
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Society for Applied Anthropology
Government Information
Government agencies, especially federal agencies, publish
significant amounts of information and statistics on a wide variety of topics.
International, state, and local information can be harder to find on the Internet
but it is worth a try.
Links to hundreds of websites with statistics and information
on such topics as aging, children and families, labor, health, agriculture,
census data, and the environment.
Ask for help at the Reference and Government Information Desk on 1st Floor
Main.
