InfoGuides: Anthropology: Find Articles

Key Anthropology Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887. Tutorial for the Academic Search Complete database.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 4,000 titles from general reference databases, including a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. Tutorial for the ProQuest Research Library database.
Abstracts in Anthropology This link opens in a new window
Several thousand abstracts, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject, provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields.
Anthropology Online This link opens in a new window
Brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Contains more than over 100,000 pages of full-text.
Tutorial for the Anthropology Online database.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides worldwide 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 link opens in a new window
AnthroSource offers access to 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters. Subjects covered include archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistics.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
Multi-cultural database of books, articles & dissertations organized by cultures, ethnic groups & traditions. Provides in-depth information on all aspects of cultural social life for selected cultures. Formerly called eHRAF Collection of Ethnography.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.

Database Tips

Explore additional databases listed under the subject heading Sociology & Anthropology on the database portal page. But also review databases that are listed under other subject headings (e.g., Conflict Resolution or Geography and Environmental Science) pertinent to your research topic or question. Once you find an article or study that best matches your research topic, evaluate the references provided in that work. This is one way to build a literature review. You may find an online dissertation, available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global,that offers an extensive literature review on your topic.

If you are looking for seminal works by noted anthropologists and sociologists, take a look in the Social Theory database. If your research interests lie in modern American cultural phenomena, explore Pop Culture Universe.

Contact a reference librarian via telephone, e-mail or IM (or me directly) to help you get started in your research or when you hit a mental roadblock!