Anthropology: Databases

Excellent place to get an overview of terms and concepts you may be unfamiliar with.

Search across authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedia and reference books for definitions and background information.

Provides a search of scholarly literature across man disciplines, formats, and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles.

Comprehensive database with extensive sources on a wide range of academic research projects.

Searches journal articles from the catalog of the Royal Anthropological Institute in cooperation with the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum. Covers a broad geographical range, emphasizing the Commonwealth and Africa, and extending to Eastern and Central European ethnography and the Americas. Entries are compiled from over 700 journals reflecting all branches of anthropology and date from the 1950s to the present.

Information about countries world-wide from the Library of Congress, updated from their printed publications.

A bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Subjects covered: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.

is a multi-disciplinary database containing full text journals in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Political Science, Population, Sociology, and Statistics as well as core titles in African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern studies.

Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface.

Offers nearly 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Selected scholarly periodicals in the social sciences (anthropology, political science, sociology, geography and economics, etc.) Coverage: 1983-present

Features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Coverage dates as far back as 1895

Contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. Cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.

This database serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.