Research Guides: Anthropology: Academic Articles

Academic Article Databases

Anthropology Article Databases
Article Databases in Related Disciplines

Anthropology Plus
Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK combines worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
AnthroSource
Access to scientific research across the field of anthropology; current and archived issues of American Anthropological Association's journals, bulletins, & newsletters.
eHRAF World Cultures
HRAF = Human Relations Area File. Contains ethnographic collections, organized by regions, subregions, and cultures, covering all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Contains newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. It also provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
GenderWatch
GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to 1970. This database includes journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental NGO and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues.
Global Commodities
Historical primary source visual, manuscript, and printed materials documenting the trade of major commodities around the world from the 16th century to the present day. Commodities are: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver/gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine/spirits.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Bibliographic references to articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951; unique in its broad coverage of international material, over 100 languages and countries. Focus primarily in anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
An index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Includes coverage on political affairs & law, cultural heritage, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and recent history & archaeology.
Project Muse
Covers digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community; includes current content in books and journals from leading university presses and scholarly societies are fully integrated for search and discovery.

Global Issues In Context
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Features updated issue and country portals of relevant sources for analysis and rich multimedia - includes podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.
PubMed@UCI
Biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and books. Full-text from PubMed Central (& more) in medicine, nursing, dentistry, & veterinary.
Sage Research Methods
Methodology tool to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Explore concepts to help design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct research, and write up findings.
Scopus
Interdisciplinary database highlighting comprehensive overviews of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Social Services Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Sociological Abstracts
Social and behavioral sciences journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers; includes culture and social structure; health and medicine and law; policy, planning; religion and science; women's studies.
Web of Science [WoS]
Interdisciplinary database provides access to Science citation index from 1900 to the present, Social sciences citation index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the present.

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