Course Guides

Course Specific Research Guides

• IS 4160 The Ice Age

Databases

Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals are available from our subscription databases. Listed below are suggestions for starting your research. A complete list of our Digital Resources are available from the Databases link.

• Academic Search Premier [INFO]
• Contemporary Women’s Issues [INFO]
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection (full-text backfiles) [INFO]
• World History Collection (all full-text) [INFO]
• LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (index and abstracts only)
• Culturegrams

Books and More

The Library catalog is a collection of books and other print materials, such as videos/DVDs, music CDs, and scores. The catalog offers a variety of searches - Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, and Call Number. Examples of searches are below:

• Subject search for Acculturation
• Subject search for Anthropology
• Subject search for Antiquities
• Subject search for Archaeology
• Subject search for Ethnology
• Subject search for Human geography
• Subject search for Physical anthropology

Reference Material

Reference sources may provide a good starting point for research and include encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and statistical sources. Some key resources are listed below. Additional titles may be located by seaching the Library catalog

• Handbook of social and cultural anthropology
• Introduction to library research in anthropology
• International dictionary of anthropologists
• Biographical directory of anthropologists born before 1920
• The dictionary of anthropology
• Dictionary of concepts in cultural anthropology
• Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology
• Anthropological resources : a guide to archival, library, and museum collections

Web Sites

• The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• American Anthropological Association
• Society for the Anthropology of Europe
• Myths and Legends
• Archaeological Institute of America

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• Ask a Librarian
• Subject librarian: Alice Staples

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