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Anthropology
Librarian Subject Specialist
- Michael Winter
- mfwinter@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3058 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)
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Subject Specific Databases
- Anthropology Plus [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/34670) VPN
- Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
- Date: Late 19th century to present
- Related:
- Fact Sheet (http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/details/AnthropologyPlus.htm)
- Fact Sheet (http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/details/AnthropologyPlus.htm)
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (http://www.ethnologue.com)
- Ethnologue.com is a site of many resources for research of the world's languages. The database has been an active research project for more than fifty years. It is a comprehensive listing of information about the currently known languages of the world.
- eHRAF World Cultures (http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/) VPN
- Formerly known as the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography, this is a unique cross-cultural database with full-text primary source material from 1949 to the present, totaling nearly one million pages of information on over 365 cultures, past and present. The online collection incorporates some but not all of the material in the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) microfiche, located in the Shields Library Microfiche Collection
- Coverage: 1949-present
- eHRAF Archaeology (http://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/) VPN
- Subscription cancelled in budget-cutting operation.
- Coverage: 1949-present
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/llba/advanced) VPN
- "CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations."
- Coverage: 1973-present
- Related:
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/llba-set-c.php)
- Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/llba-set-c.php)
- BIOSIS Previews [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS) VPN
NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.
More than 22 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.
- Coverage: 1926-present
- Related:
- FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
- OLD Version BIOSIS Access (http://webofknowledgev4.com/biosis) VPN
Backup until end of 2011. Most complete load as of week of July 18th. - Quick Reference Card: BIOSIS Previews, ISI Web of Knowledge (http://wokinfo.com/wok/media/pdf/qrc/bpqrc.pdf)PDF
- Online BIOSIS information (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/BIOSIS/h_database.html)
- Video training: Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (https://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=27087902)
- Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class35)
- FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
- PrimateLit (http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu)
- PLEASE NOTE: The PrimateLit database is no longer being updated as of November 30, 2010. The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to November 2010 and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography). Literature acquisition, analysis, and indexing was a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the Washington National Primate Research Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
- Coverage: 1940-November 30, 2010
- AnthroHub (http://anthrohub.lib.berkeley.edu/)
- Indexes and, in some cases, links to fulltext versions of materials (some open access, others accessible to subscribers only) by and about UC Berkeley anthropologists. Publication date coverage from 1896.
General Databases
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/) VPN
- The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources
- FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
- Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
- Coverage: 1984-present
- PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708) VPN
- Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Coverage: 1946-present
- Related:
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53592/)
- NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf)PDF
- NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf)PDF
- PubMed Training Manual [NLM] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook.pdf)PDF
Extensive 148-page training manual from day-long PubMed training class. Updated April 2011. - Tutorials, Guides & Instructional Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/guides/instguides.php#pubmed)
Lots of information from UCDavis' Health Science Libraries - For help from a Shields BioAg librarian send email to: bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu
- Human medicine, veterinary medicine, and health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu / Blaisdell Medical Library (916)734-3529, mclref@lib.ucdavis.edu
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- Web of Science [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) VPN
NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.
Provides access to the content from three Thomson Reuters ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
- Coverage: 1900-present [Science 1899-, Social Sciences 1900-, Arts & Humanities 1975-]
- Related:
- Web of Science tutorial (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
- Web of Science Tips (version 7) (http://thomsonscientific.com/media/scpdf/wos7_tips_cit.pdf)PDF
- Web of Science tutorial (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
- HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (http://uclibs.org/PID/16242) VPN
- HAPI Online is the searchable Web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world
- Related:
Full-Text Resources
- Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) VPN
- EENA contains full text letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters, centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Includes information on the peoples, places, environment, flora and fauna encountered. Of note are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America".
- Coverage: 1534-1959
- Related:
- Help page for using Early Encounters in North America (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENALive/eena.help.html)
- Help page for using Early Encounters in North America (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENALive/eena.help.html)
- Annual Review of Anthropology (http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/anthro)
- Full-text version of the Annual Review of Anthropology provides increased search options.
- Coverage: 1972-present
- Date: 1972-present
Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources
- Resources in Ethnographic Studies (http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html)
- A Library of Congress collection of resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife.
- Anthropology 152 Human Evolution Outline of Class Presentation (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/hss/2009/08/06/anthropology-152-human-evolution/)
- A schematic outline, including links, of an instructional session presented to the students of Anthropology 152 (Instructor: Cassandra Brown)on August 6, 2009. Use this outline to review materials and search strategies presented during the class in the Shields Library Instruction Room.
- Date: 6 August 2009 3:10-4:00
Other Resources
- American Anthropological Association (AAA) Style Guide (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf)PDF
- An outline of style rules for AAA journals. Does not apply to newsletters, which deviate frequently from these guidelines in the interest of space and tend to follow many Associated Press style rules.
- Related:
- Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Anthropological Review Database ( ARD ) (http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/)
- This "book review" database for anthropology contains fulltext reviews of anthropology related literature and media. It also contains citations to reviews published in anthropology journals.
- Coverage: 1994-present
- Anthropology Resources on the Internet (http://www.aaanet.org/resources/)
- The American Anthropological Association portal to Internet resources related to the four fields of anthropology, applied anthropology, archives and musuems, and professional societies and organizations.
- Native American Studies Print and Web Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/nativeamerican.php)
- Brief annotated bibliography of relevant print reference and web-based resources for Native American Studies.
- Date: 28 June 2005
- Native American Studies Research Guide [UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=31)