Subject Portal » Anthropology

Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.

Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.

Provides encyclopedia-length articles with bibliographies on thousands of topics in the social sciences.  You can browse the tables of contents and see abstracts for each article via the online version of this work.

Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.

Provides article-length critical reviews of primary research in the field of anthropology.  Great place to start your research!  Also accessible (1972-2000) through JSTOR.  Continues the Biennial Review of Anthropology (1959-1971), available through JSTOR.

Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.

Contains approximately 2600 full-text reviews of books in anthropology.

Contains ethnographic and other documents describing the cultures of the world. Includes books, journal articles, and dissertations that are compiled into culture profiles. Many documents are in full-text. 

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Provides access to issues of the Population Index. Includes abstracts of demographic literature published in the index. Covers 1986-2000.

Provides citations to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates. Publications include: journal articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations and book chapters. Subject areas include: behavior, ecology, reproduction, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology and genetics. Covers 1940-present.

Provides access to the citation indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index. These multidisciplinary databases can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that cite a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Science citation index expanded coverage 1955-present; Social sciences citation index coverage 1956-present.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971 - present.