AN 310 Advanced Topics in Anthropology
Instructor: Delaney
Librarian: Marilyn Scoville
Refworks citation and research managment tool
APA formating guide from the OWL writing lab at Purdue
What is a peer reviewed journal?
Locating scholarly and peer reviewed literature
Selecting databases
Online electronic databases such as Academic Search Premier and Academic OneFile provide access to magazine and journal articles. These two databases cover a broad selection of publications, some scholarly and some for a more popular audience. Both databases allow you to limit your searches to scholarly "peer reviewed" publications.
SocINDEX
EthicNews Watch
GenderWatch
Women's Studies International
Anthropological Literature
Scholarly article example from the SocIndex database:
Trager, K. D. (2005). Reading in the borderland: An ethnographic study of serious readers in a mega-bookstore cafe. Communication Review, 8(2), 185-236. doi:10.1080/10714420590953316.
- Search for articles in a specific journal such as Human Organization or American Anthropologist
Use Journal Finder to locate issues and dates or search within a specific publication
the journal Practicing Anthropology is indexed in the Anthropological Literature database
the journal Human Organization is indexed in the ProQuest Social Science Journals database
the journal American Anthropologist is also indexed in the ProQuest Social Science Journals database
- Books at SMC and at other libraries
Use the SMC catalog to locate books accessible here at Saint Michael's
Use the Worldcat database to search for books available through Interlibrary Loan from other libraries
- Search for primary sources through the eHRAF database (Human Relations Area Files from Yale University)
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