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  • Anthropology Plus
    Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides  indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
  • AnthroSource
    This database features the current issues for 11 of the American Anthropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR:
  • SCOPUS
    Scopus provides broad coverage to literature in the sciences and social sciences. Users have access to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, and web sources.
  • Academic Search Complete
    Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
  • Web of Science
    Web of Science contains searchable author abstracts from major journals across a broad range of disciplines in the social sciences. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searches for articles that cite a known author of work.
  • ProQuest Social Sciences

    Scholars Portal Search provides a single search interface to over fifty databases covering the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

  • JSTOR
    JSTOR is a very useful multidisciplinary database that provides access to journal articles in a number of disciplines in the Social Sciences, including Anthropology.
  • Dissertations & Theses

    Searches ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text  and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses UK and Ireland, and Dissertations and Theses at University of Western Ontario.

    ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive database of dissertations and theses published in North America and provides full-text access to most of the disseratations added since 1997 and strong retrospective coverage for older graduate works.

    ProQuest Dissertations & Theses UK and Ireland provides access to abstracts of disseratations published in the UK and Ireland.

  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar provides access to the scholarly literature in many disciplines, however, because it draws its information from unknown sources, it can miss alot of important publications and retreive alot of irrelevant and redundant material. It's best to use Google Scholar as a starting point and in addition to other library research databases.
  • Primate Lit
    The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).
  • The Ontario Archaeology Theses Database
    The Ontario Archaeology Theses Database is a a comprehenisve index of theses and dissertations on Ontario Archaeology compiled by the Ontario Archaeological Society.
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