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Anthropology & Archaeology


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Electronic Indexes inter alia

Library Catalogs

For social and cultural anthropology especially, in addition to the specialized indexes listed below, always try the following two indexes for their extensive abstracts and occasional fulltext:

  • Expanded Magazine ASAP. Covers a wide-range of journals including Current Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Man, American Ethnologist. Includes Abstracts and some fulltext
  • Sociological Abstracts. Abstracts a number of journals in cultural anthropology, rural development and related fields. For demography try Population Index

for theoretical background and literature surveys check out the standard handbooks and related compendia and also the several social sciences Annual Reviews:

and then:

dissertations/theses:

other specialised indexes/abstracts

  • Academic Universe for fulltext newspapers and magazines
  • America History & Life
  • CAB direct for topics such as rural development and tourism as well africultural development and economics
  • FRANCIS, 1984+. Includes ethnography & prehistory. Continues and replaces Bulletin Signaletique: Ethnologie, 1972+, Z5112.B8 (before 1986: Z7164.S68.B78). Journal articles
  • Historical Abstracts
  • International bibliography of the Social Sciences, including International Bibliography of Social & Cultural Anthropology), 1951+. Books and articles in the fields of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology
  • PsychInfo, 1987+
  • Social Science Citation Index
  • Article First part of First Search

  • Human Relations Area Files, a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies; its mission is to encourage and facilitate the study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject. Through 1991 material is on microfiche in Green Library Microtext MFICHE 381. N.B. Only about three hundred cultural groups actually have data in the HRAF files, either online or microform.

Socrates II
Melvyl, the UC online catalog
RLIN, research & academic libraries
World Catalog, a variety of libraries
Other Online & Web Library Catalogs

Print Indexes

  • Anthropological Literature (1979+) Z5111.A57. Journal articles. Continues Peabody Museum Catalogue, Z5119.H35. Use its electronic version. All of the earlier versions of this catalog/index are cumulated in: Author and subject catalogues of the Tozzer Library [microform]: formerly the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. IMPRINT: 2nd enl. ed. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1988. 1122 microfiches. LOCATION: Green Library Microtext MFICHE 2153: Z5119.T69 1988 Guide. NOTES: "This catalogue contains entries for monographs (through June 1986) and serials (thru June 1983). User's Guide and Introduction at the beginning of v. 1. Issued in 8 binders."
  • Anthropological Index (1963+) Z5112.A54. Journal articles. Represents holdings of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London. Web version. A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences (4 v., 1932) includes the RAI library holdings up to 1931. IC Z7161.L84.
  • Abstracts in Anthropology, 1970+, GN1.A47. Journal articles
  • Abstracts in German Anthropology (1980+) GN1.A345


Comparative Statistics


Human Rights


Development | Population studies | Technology

Development Information from Government Sources

  • Eldis is a gateway to fulltext online information on development or the environment, focusing on countries of the South. Eldis makes a qualitative selection of materials and structures it for easy access. See the Eldis subject guides.
  • Agricola . National Agricultural Library; includes conservation, forestry, food & nutrition along with agriculture. Agricola includes entries from Agris. (UN. FAO)

  • CAB direct including Rural Development Abstracts, Paper copy: Z5074.E3.R8
  • World Agricultural Economic & Rural Sociology Abstracts, Paper copy: HD1401.W6. (or paid search in CAB Abstracts in DIALOG #50 & 53)
  • International Development Abstracts, Paper copy: Z7164.E15. (or paid search via DIALOG no. 292; geographical terms=/de; sc=1 "Int. Devel. Abstracts" & sc=2 "Ecology")

  • ERIC, education and development, applied language studies.

  • Annual Review of Energy and the Environment.
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases
  • EI/Compendix, 1987+, world's engineering literature.

  • ABI Inform, 1971+, business and marketing.
  • PAIS, public policy, political science and economic topics; international scope.

  • Family Studies Database (CD-ROM). 1970+, LOCATION: Green Information Center.
  • Population Index, the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. Other demographic information and weblinks are available from the Population Research Institute (PRI)

Women's Studies Electronic Databases

Print only

  • Appropriate Technology Index: an indexing service to the literature of appropriate technology and related fields, LOCATION: Green Information Center T14.5.A8.
  • Annuaire du tiers monde, 1975+, LOCATION: Green Stack HC59.7.A794. Several years behind.
  • Development Periodicals Index, 1990+, LOCATION: Green Information Center Z7164.E15.D3.


Biological & Medical anthropology

Race, Genes, and Anthropology


Folklore | Material Culture | Language


Area Studies

For other standard area studies print reference works see the section "History and Area Studies" in Guide to Reference Books, 11th ed., located in the IC, Z1035.1 .G89 1996.

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