LibGuides: Anthropology: Article Databases

Useful Article Databases for Anthropology and Archaeology

Article Databases: Contents

Anthropology and Archaeology Databases

Key Article Databases

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
As a compilation of the Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature databases, Anthropology Plus covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
Current issues of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins.

Additional Anthropology and Archaeology Databases

Anthropological Index Online (AIO) This link opens in a new window
AIO is an index to articles on all areas of anthropology from over 900 journals held in the Museum of Mankind Library in London.

Archaeology Data Service
Archived data, texts, images and documents. Over 1 million records.
Smithsonian Department of Anthropology Databases
Catalogs the Smithsonian's collections in anthropology and archaeology, including many digital images and item descriptions.

Area/Ethnic Studies Databases

ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) This link opens in a new window
Information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.
African Research Online This link opens in a new window
Search platform combining African Studies Companion Online and Africa Yearbook Online.

AIATSIS: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Includes collection catalogues and digital exhibitions.

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
This on-line version of BAS contains more than one million records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.
Archaeology Data Service Library (ADS Library) This link opens in a new window
Archaeology Data Services (formerly known as BIAB) provides information about articles and books on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland, including over 100,000 references to publication from 1940 onwards. To that dataset they have added records from earlier bibliographies, containing records from as far back as 1695.
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) This link opens in a new window
Access to full text PDF articles from 280 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
Todo tipo de material sobre los chicanos. En 1992 el BDC ampliado su alcance para incluir la más amplia experiencia latina de los puertorriqueños, cubano-americanos y los inmigrantes centroamericanos.
CNKI Databases (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) This link opens in a new window
Over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone. Note: Full text access is available only for the following subject areas--the Literature, History, Philosophy and Politics, Military Affairs, Law sections for the China Academic Journals Full-text (CAJ), the China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text database, and the China Masters' Theses Full-text database (CDMD).

Digital Himalaya
"A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region."
D-Place: Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment
"D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. . . . All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950)."

Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Dates of coverage: 1935 - .
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) covers over 400 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities, or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. A guide to searching the Hispanic American Periodicals Index is available online. Dates of coverage: 1970 - present (updated annually).

Southeast Asian Archaeology Scholarly Resources
Includes a bibliography, skeletal data tables, metals and crucible data and multilingual vocabulary lists. Maintained by the Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology (ISEAA).

Databases in Related Disciplines

APA PsycNET This link opens in a new window
This database contains citations and abstracts from a wide range of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences
E&E News This link opens in a new window
Includes access to Energywire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire and E&E News PM.

"E&E News is a news organization focusing on energy and the environment.

Our five daily publications and video programs deliver original and compelling journalism that keeps top decisionmakers in government, business, NGOs and academia informed and ahead of the curve. E&E’s success as an independently owned news organization -- established in 1998 -- relies on producing timely and objective reporting that our subscribers from all sides of the issues value and trust.
Ecology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database covers current ecology research, reflecting recent advances in light of growing evidence regarding global environmental change and destruction.
"Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment (ProQuest)."
Environment Index This link opens in a new window
The Environment Index corresponds to the printed index--Environment Periodicals Bibliography. This resource indexes scientific, technical and popular journals for topics related to the environment.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
This article and primary-source literature database incorporates the Black Writing and World Literature collections from ProQuest, including thousands of literary texts and plays from Latin America, the Caribbean, the African Diaspora, and South and Southeast Asia.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new window
This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, film and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Containing over 3.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s, the database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics, and other areas. Provides unmatched coverage of behavioral science and mental health fields.
PubMed @ Rice This link opens in a new window
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to many sites providing free full text articles and other related resources including the PubMed Central digital archive.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocIndex (formerly Sociological Abstracts) covers 3,000 journals (and some books) in sociology, social planning/policy, and related subjects. "...offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, violence and many others."
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database, New Books on Women & Feminism, WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies, Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography, The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines, European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography and Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research. (1972-)

General Subject Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a multidisciplinary citation platform with links to free full texts. With this localized implementation, additional full texts are available for resources licensed by Rice University, and no manual setting of Rice preferences is required when accessing Scholar off-campus. Note the case law button to locate court opinions from federal and state courts and the ability to include patents in searches for articles.
Includes a "Cited by" link at the bottom of an author search result. Includes self-citations. There might be multiple entries for one work.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more, Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities.
Access provided by the Frederica Killgore Endowment.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online, full text access to scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type.
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch searches Rice's library catalog, digital collections, and e-resources such as ebooks, e-journals, databases, and more.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
A database of full-text journals in a variety of the humanities and social science disciplines. It covers recent years including current issues and for some journals serves as an update to JSTOR.
Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Citations for doctoral dissertations from 1861 to the present. Some master's theses are also available. The full texts of dissertations and theses added since 1997 (since 1918 for Rice theses) may be downloaded.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 15,000 journals, as well as several million web pages and U.S. and international patents. Database includes article citations from 1996, and permits citation tracking, and (both) saving searches and email or RSS alerts of new material. The system will export records into major citation managers and prepare a bibliography according to major formats. (1966- )
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
The Web of Science is a database on the Web of Knowledge platform that integrates multiple citation indexes:
● Science Citation Index (1900-present)
● Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
● Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
● BIOSIS Citation Index (1926-present)
● Current Contents Connect: 1) Life Sciences; 2) Clinical Medicine; 3) Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; 4) Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; 5) Engineering, Computing & Technology; 6) Social & Behavioral Sciences; 7) Arts & Humanities; 8) Business Collection; and 9) Electronics & Telecommunications Collection
● Data Citation Index (1900-present)
● Derwent Innovations Index (1963-present)
● Web of Science Core Collection: 1) Book Citation Index Science (2005-present); 2) Book Citation Index Social Science & Humanities (2005-present); 3) Conference Proceedings Index for Science (1990-present); 4) Conference Proceedings Index for Social Science & Humanities (1990-present); 5) Current Chemical Reactions; and 6) Index Chemicus
● Zoological Records
● BIOSIS Citation Index (1926-present) - Experts review all materials to create the most robust solution for Life Science research. This includes specific indexing only found in Biosis for easy navigation. Materials include all Life Science research found in journals, conference proceedings, symposiums, patents, books, meetings, etc. Full links of source record to cited reference (2005-present) and archives indexed back to 1926. Enhances Web of Science access by creating links to Biosis Citation index for items only indexed in this resource.
● Book Citation Index: Science and Social Science Editions - This scholarly book content complements and enhances the citation relationships between journals, conference proceedings, and books. Coverage of over 40,000 editorially selected books, starting with publication year 2005. 10,000 new books added each year. Comprehensive cited reference search and reciprocal links to/from book records and book chapters.
● Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science and Social Science & Humanities Editions - This index lets you use cited reference searching to see the full impact of conferences and other professional meetings. You can track the influence of papers, authors, and conference series to reveal emerging trends and new ideas before they appear in journals. Over 12,000 conferences indexed annually.
● Data Citation Index (1900-present) - This index aggregates the meta-data from over 70 data repositories globally... Data Studies and Data Sets indexed from each qualified repository contain citation links that integrate with journal literature indexed within Rice's Web of Science access.
● Derwent Innovations Index (1963-present) - This index facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions. This source merges the value-added patention citation index for over 42 patent issuing authorities globally.
● Current Chemical Reactions & Index Chemicus - A searchable database of state of the art chemical reactions and their chemical structures. It provides access to a broad range of all areas of chemistry, coverage of a variety of reaction types and focuses on novel synthetic data to minimize duplication.
Zoological Records - This is a comprehensive, world-wide literature index pertaining to animal science. As the authoritative record of taxonomy, Zoological Records provides scientists with a way to both conduct the research necessary to establish species novelty, and ensure that their new discoveries are recognized in the global scientific community.
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