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, 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.
ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s platform for peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Google Scholar is one place to locate find scholarly articles, though best used for certain purposes due to the sheer amount of content. The videos linked below review how to link your SacLink account to Google Scholar so you can bypass paywalls in addition to how to conduct a cited reference search (i.e., seeing who has cited a specific published work, thereby finding newer research on a topic).
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.
