LibGuides: Anthropology: Databases

Anthropology databases

These databases focus on anthropological topics.

JSTOR
This is perhaps the strongest database for anthropological topics and should be looked at early in your research.
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
National Anthropolical Archives

Social Sciences databases

These databases offer coverage of anthropological topics from a social science perspective.

SocINDEX with Full Text
SocIndex provides good coverage on anthropological topics.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
C&MMC provides coverage on topics involving culture and communication.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Google Schoolar is linked to our many different databases.

Proquest Dissertations and Thesis

Proquest Dissertations and Thesis
This database provides access to dissertations and thesis held in the Proquest database.

General databases

These general databases are useful when you are beginning your research and are not sure where to begin. each of these databases offer good general coverage of anthropological topics.

Education databases

Use these databases when you are interested in the intersection between education and anthropology.

Communication Studies

Communication & Mass Media Complete database
This database focuses on the fields of communication studies and mass media/advertising.
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SEARCH TIP: Open the drop down menu on the right hand search box and select “TX All Text” if you are searching for a key word or “SU Subject Terms” if you are using a subject term as part of your search.

SEARCH TIP: Click on the “Thesaurus” tab at the top of the database toolbar to search for subject terms.

USD Dissertations and Thesis

USD Dissertations and Thesis
This link provides access to dissertations and thesis published at the University of South Dakota.

Medicine

CINAHL
CINAHL Complete provides full text articles from nursing & allied health journals and is useful for focused information on medical topics.
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SEARCH TIP: Open the drop down menu on the right hand search box and select “TX All Text” if you are searching for a key word or “MW Main Word in Subject Heading” if you are using a CINAHL Subject heading term as part of your search.

SEARCH TIP: Click on the “CINAHL Headings” tab on the toolbar at the top of the page to search for CINAHL subject terms.
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
This is a useful database for many general medical topics across the medicine field. Most of the articles are full text.
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SEARCH TIP: Open the drop down menu on the right hand search box and select “TX All Text” if you are searching for a key word or “SU Subject” if you are using a subject term as part of your search.

SEARCH TIP: Click on the “Subject Term” tab on the toolbar at the top of the page to search for subject terms.
MedLine
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Use this database for in-depth medical information .
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SEARCH TIP: Open the drop down menu on the right hand search box and select “TX All Text” if you are searching for a key word or “SU Subject” if you are using a subject term as part of your search.

SEARCH TIP: Click on the “MeSH” tab on the toolbar at the top of the page to search for subject terms. MeSH stands for Medical Subject Headings and are specialized subject terms for the medical field.
PubMed
PubMed provides articles and research papers on all topics of medicine. This database is useful if you want to know in-depth medical research. PubMed provides citations but may not provide full text access.

Science Direct

Science Direct

Additional databases

Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete is useful for philosophical and cultural anthropology topics and ethnomethodology.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Use the LLBA database for research in the areas of linguistics and linguistic anthropology.