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Articles

  • 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 extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
  • 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: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
  • The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum of Mankind, which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. Anthropological Index Online is also a part of the Anthropology Plus database.
  • Provides access to full-text, full-image, scholarly literature. The growing database contains the archives of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. JSTOR offers the scanned image of each journal page as it was originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Help Guide
  • 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.
  • This bibliographic database cites articles from over five-hundred periodicals. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies.

News Sources

  • This flagship service provides full-text documents to business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Areas of interest include: National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
  • Alt-Press Watch,is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.
  • Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies provides full access to articles, columns, editorials and feature articles. Database content is updated daily.

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