Research Guides: ANTH 146: Ethnographic Analysis (Barata): Journal Articles

Databases

The following databases will contain scholarly journal articles from anthropologists; JSTOR is highly recommended for starting your research for scholarly journal articles.

This list is not exhaustive, so depending on your area of focus for this term paper, you may want to visit other subject-specific library research guides to find databases that cover other disciplines. I have also included several social sciences and multi-disciplinary databases that include anthropology or social sciences literature that may be helpful depending on your topic.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides access to full-text articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals (including peer-reviewed) journals. Includes topics in social sciences, humanities, science, education, and most areas of academic study.
Anthropology Plus
This is the comprehensive Anthropology index which combines the holdings of Anthropological Index and the Anthropological Literature databases. This database covers the anthropological literature (articles, reports, commentaries) from the 19th century to the present.
ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC is the US Department of Education's index to educational research. If your research is about an educational context, you can find literature in here on anthropological and educational linguistics.
JSTOR (All Subjects)
JSTOR provides scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences, and is a great place to locate anthropological literature. Users can limit to journals in specific disciplines to narrow down research results. Note that JSTOR is an archive, and the last 1-5 years of articles in specific journals will not be available in this database.
Project Muse
Project Muse offers some 600 journal titles from 260 scholarly publishers including from the Johns Hopkins University Presss which began this project in 1995. The journals included in this database are in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Scholarly literature in sociology and related fields, including anthropology.

How to Search Databases

The following video covers basic searching in Academic Search Complete. While not every database will have the same search interface, the majority of databases work similarly, so your search skills will transfer between databases.

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