Anthropology: Databases
Anthropology Databases
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Anthropology PlusAnthropology Plus will help you find national and international, English and non-English journal articles and sometimes other types of documents in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and related fields of study, going back to the early 1800's up to the present time. Only 5 people at a time can access this information source.
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AnthroSourceAnthroSource provides access to the full text of all peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Association. Most materials date back to the last third of the 1900's.
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eHRAF World CultureseHRAF World Cultures will help you find paragraphs in English from thousands of online books on all aspects of the cultural and social life of cultures and ethnic groups from all over the world.
Multidisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search UltimateAcademic Search Ultimate is a giant database that covers more than 10,021 journals, and full text for nearly 9,017 peer-reviewed titles. It is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary resource of scholarly research.
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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)Provides indexing and abstracting covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Coverage is from 1987-present.
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ArtstorArtstor is a digital library of approximately 300 collections composed of over 2 million images* (and growing), in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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Ethnographic Video OnlineAn online collection of classic and contemporary documentaries in the fields of anthropology, ethnography and social psychology.
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JSTORJSTOR provides the searchable full text of the backfiles of many of the core research and academic society published journals in almost all subject areas, but its emphasis is in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of JSTOR's content is academic and peer-reviewed.
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Social Sciences Full TextThis resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. It provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983 - nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science is a multidisciplinary resource that allows you to search multiple databases at once, including: Web of Science (Core Collection), Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, and Journal Citation Reports. Find journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, and tables of contents.
Using Ulrich's Web to determine Peer-Review Status
Why use Ulrich's?
- Find out if a particular journal is peer reviewed
- Find out which databases index a journal
How to use Ulrichsweb to determine if an article is in a peer-reviewed journal:
1. Ulrich's can tell you whether a journal is peer-reviewed, not individual articles (but, research articles in a peer-reviewed journal will be peer-reviewed).
2. Go to Ulrichsweb database from a GVSU link, either on a subject guide or from the database list.
3. Enter the name of the journal/magazine (not the article or author!).
4. For example, I recently found this article through PubMed database. Notice the journal title is "Pediatric Obesity" (or Pediatr Obes for short):
5. Next, go to Ulrichsweb and type in Pediatric Obesity. This is what the results look like:
6. There are 2 versions of Pediatric Obesity, print and online. In either case, there is a "refereed" symbol (red circle) next to the journal name. This means the journal is "refereed," which is another way of saying peer-reviewed.
NOTE: not every article in a peer-reviewed journal may be peer-reviewed; commentary, news and opinion pieces usually are not peer-reviewed.
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Ulrichs WebUlrich's is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.
- Last Updated: Sep 12, 2025 8:43 AM
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