Finding background information
The three sources listed below provide background information that can give context to and guide your research. These sources also provide vocabulary to use in searching for books and journal articles relevant to your research.
- Annual Review of AnthropologyThe Annual Review of Anthropology, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and international anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral SciencesInternational Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that comprises more than 3,900 commissioned articles and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
- Credo ReferenceProvides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
- SAGE Research MethodsSage Research Methods provide online access to the wide variety of resources from Sage publishing: more than 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series, a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos.
Books & Media
- Search I-ShareFor books & multimedia items held by other Illinois academic libraries that you can request to be shipped here to check out
- WorldCat (FirstSearch platform)Union catalog with holdings information from libraries across the world.
Finding articles
- AnthroSourceAnthroSource is an online portal serving the research, teaching and practicing needs of anthropologists.
- Anthropology PlusCitations to articles in anthropology, archaeology, and interdisciplinary studies, bringing together Anthropological Literature from Harvard and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK.
- Google ScholarPros: Familiar search, links to UIC e-resources if selected from Library home page, "Cited by" feature to find articles that reference it
Cons: Haphazard journal coverage, no subject headings - JSTORDigitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
- Web of ScienceWeb of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- Internet Archive ScholarThis fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
- PerseePersee provides open access to back files of more than 150 French scientific journals in the field of the humanities. Journals have moving walls of different lengths that block access to recent issues. Persee has advanced functionalities which facilitate and enhance use of the portal’s resources.
Prior Anthropological Scholarship
- eHRAF World CulturesCross-cultural database with more than 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life organized into cultures and ethnic groups and subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
- eHRAF ArchaeologyA unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological and prehistory studies.
- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI)The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. This database contains committee minutes and other documents from the late 19th century to the present. It also contains manuscripts, photos and maps from the Institute.
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Finding Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&IThis resource includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day. It includes abstracts dating back to 1980, and access to the full text of many dissertations from 1997 (and sometimes earlier) to present.
Note: contains abstracts and index. Full-text limited to free content only. - INDIGO - UIC's own Institutional RepositoryINDIGO, provided and maintained by the Library, offers open access to the intellectual work of UIC faculty.
Note: Access to some dissertations may be restricted at the discretion of the author or publisher.