Databases for Anthropology
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| Social Sciences Citation Index |
Part of Web of Science, the Social Sciences Citation Index provides indexing for more than 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. |
1900-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Americas Historical Newspapers |
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Provides full text access to more than 100 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. |
2000-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Even More
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| African American Song |
16,000 audio tracks of historical recordings from a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. |
20th Century |
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| Bibliography of Native North Americans |
Sources include books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents. |
1500s-present |
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| CAMIO |
A growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. |
Varies |
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| Library Catalog |
Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-A, and Western Carolina University. |
1400's-present |
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| Music Online |
When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. |
pre-1960 |
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| Naxos Music Library |
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online. |
1150-present |
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| New York Times |
Covers the New York Times late edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present). |
1980-present |
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| Newspaper Source Plus |
Newspaper Source Plus provides full text coverage for 730 national & international newspapers. |
2000-present |
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| Smithsonian Global Sound |
The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2013) includes 2,949 albums, equalling 42,405 tracks. |
20th century |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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