The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
A comprehensive index of journal articles and films held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum, and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). Incorporating the former RAI library, the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) holds arounf 4,000 periodical titles (1,500 current) covering all areas of anthropology. It indexes nearly 800 journals, published in over 40 languages, on a continuing basis, with records dating from 1957 to the present.
Subjects: Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics.
A full-text database developed by the American Anthropological Association containing over 250,000 articles from more than 35 anthropological journals, as well as news bulletins, monographs and book reviews.
This video collection contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing a large and comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behaviour.
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. The University has access to the Core Collection and Sage Research Methods Cases.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
OpenAlex is a free and open catalog which indexes over 250M academic journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings and more. Subject areas include physical, life and social sciences. Extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South.
An online database that contains over six million bibliographic references. Dating back to 1951, these references include journal articles, books, newspapers, and dissertations. The subjects covered range from anthropology and economics to politics and sociology. Interdisciplinary subjects such as development studies, human geography, and gender studies are also included.