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.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Current community newspapers, newsletters, blogs, podcasts, website & magazines; providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Searchable in English and Spanish.
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.
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.
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.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Current community newspapers, newsletters, blogs, podcasts, website & magazines; providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Searchable in English and Spanish.
GenderWatch
Full-text alternative press and other hard-to-find articles about gender and sexuality that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
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.
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.
PubMed [UCI PubMed Central]
Leading bibliographic database of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Full-text content from PubMed Central (& more) covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, etc.
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.

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Featured Journal Titles

The Anthropocene Review
A trans-disciplinary journal, bringing together research pertaining to the Anthropocene, from earth and environmental sciences, social sciences, material sciences, and humanities.
American Ethnologist
Connect ethnographic specificity with original theoretical contributions, conveying the relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.
Asian Anthropology
Brings research on Asia to a global audience, as an anthropology journal that is refereed on a global basis but that is editorially Asian-based.
Journal of Popular Culture
Breaking down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.

Archaeology Titles

Journal of Archaeological Science
Focus on advancing the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology.
Archaeology
Official publication of the Archaeological Institute of America; news of the latest discoveries, in-depth features, photo essays, and reports from the field.
International journal of nautical archaeology
Addresses the theory and practice of archaeology and related disciplines, such as cultural geography, history, ethnography, oceanography and anthropology.

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