Library Research Guides: ANTHROPOLOGY: Find Articles

Key Databases for Scholarly Articles

For searching with precision, try one of these databases. They contain a combination of full text articles (ready to read online) and citation information about articles, book chapters, or books.

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to the literature of anthropology, archaeology, and interdisciplinary studies. from the late 19th century-present.

Anthropological Index Online
Is the anthropological index to current periodicals held in the Anthropology Library at the Centre for Anthropology, The British Museum.
AnthroBase
A multilingual, searchable database of articles, theses, essays, reports, conference papers, field-notes etc., written by anthropologists.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the social sciences (1898-present) physical & life sciences (1899 to present), and arts & humanities (1975 to present). Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes international scholarly literature in sociology, 1952 to present.

SuperSearch

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.