Anthropology Specific Online Databases (in Alphabetical order)

Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation INDEX (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully INDEXES more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, including ANTHROPOLOGY, Public Health, Social Issues, Social Work, Sociology, Substance Abuse, Urban Studies, and Women's Studies.

It INDEXES individually selected scientific and technical journals; dating from 2000 to present. It does NOT include FULL-TEXT access to articles, but you can request articles through Inter-Library Loan (ILL).

SocINDEX with Full Text

Provides FULL TEXT coverage for 397 core journals and 150 priority journal titles.  It encompasses all sub-disciplines and closely related areas such as ANTHROPOLOGY, criminology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, social structure, social work, substance abuse, and urban studies; some starting in 1895 to present.

Includes FULL TEXT for 720 books and monographs and for 6,743 conference papers.  This database features over 1.9 million records.

General Online Databases (which include Anthropology information)

AcademicSearch Premier (EbscoHost)

An interdisciplinary database which covers diverse areas of study, including ANTHROPOLOGY, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics and math, and includes FULL TEXT articles to over 4,595 periodicals.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Online version of the familiar work. A good source for topics, history and websites on ANTHROPOLOGY. Choose Search or Browse. Items to browse include a World Atlas; multidisciplinary, interactive Timeline, or Year in Review.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Expanded Academic ASAP covers all academic disciplines. It is comprised of more than 3,500 INDEXed and FULL TEXT titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of back file. It offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including ANTHROPOLOGY, social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology.

Gale’s Ready Reference Shelf

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf is a DIRECTORY. It provides access to 355,000 entries from fourteen of Gale's most popular reference directories and comprises three files: Organizations, Publications, and Databases. GRRS is searchable as a whole or as individual files.
 

General Reference Center Gold

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, ANTHROPOLOGY, sports, etc.; dating from 1980 to the present.

iCONN Newsstand

A collection of 7 major newspaper titles including the New York Times (Book Review and Magazine too), the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Hartford Courant. Newspapers include current news and events in the field of ANTHROPOLOGY, social work and social services.

InfoTrac Onefile

A general resource for articles from major magazines, newspapers, business and technology publications, and academic journals covering a broad range of topics, including ANTHROPOLOGY; dating from 1980 to the present.

IngentaConnect

IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online; dating from 1988 to the present.

JSTOR

JSTOR is an archive of FULL-TEXT scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields such as ANTHROPOLOGY, sociology and social work.

JSTOR is NOT a CURRENT ISSUES database. There is a gap, from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available.

NetLibrary

NetLibrary electronic books are digital FULL TEXT versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. ECSU has access to 7,958 e-books via the NetLibrary interface.

WorldCat

OCLC catalog of books and other materials (manuscripts, websites and internet resources,  maps, computer programs, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, videotapes) in libraries worldwide. Over 62,000,000 records added since 1971.

Subject Specific Online Databases that includes Anthropology (in Alphabetical order)  

America: History and Life

The extensive database comprises over 614,000 entries for periodicals; providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of United States and Canadian history, including popular culture, ANTHROPOLOGY, literature and folklore. FULL TEXT links to over 120,000 articles; dating from 1954 to present.

American National Biography Online

Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women, whose lives have shaped America. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.. Search for “ANTHROPOLOGISTS”, or by name.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW)

ENW is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English & Spanish) and comprehensive FULL TEXT database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This database begins its coverage in 1990 .

GenderWatch (GW)

GW is a FULL TEXT database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material dating back to 1970 in some cases, GW is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles.

Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.

Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module

HWRC is a comprehensive resource providing integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information. It delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

The Alternative Health Encyclopedia views health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler: Statistics allows access to health care related statistics located in the Commerical Claims and Encounter, and the Medicare Supplemental Coordination of Benefits databases. Information date from 1980 to the present.

Historical Abstracts

Historical ABSTRACTS is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada (which are covered in America: History and Life see above); dating from 1954 to present.

In the First Person

An INDEX to English language personal narratives allowing users to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.

This is a one-stop starting point for historians, anthropologists, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to find, explore, and analyze human experiences.

The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Bibliographies of New England History

The Connecticut Bibliography online contains the full contents of Connecticut: A Bibliography of Its History (Hanover : University Press of New England, 1986).

This database contains approximately 10,000 citations to books and journal articles that discuss Connecticut history and identity. These CITATIONS reference material published from the early 18th century until the early 1980s. They offer access to material relevant to the study of the sciences and social sciences as well as to research in history, women's studies, Native American studies, African-American studies, fine arts, literature, religious history, local history, urban studies, and geography.

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