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Anthropology - A UCSC Collections Guide



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Getting Started

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Research and Style Guides
American Anthropological Association style guide
Advice on Academic Writing (Univ. of Toronto)
Writer's Handbook : Annotated Bibliographies (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Online! Citation Styles
Managing your bibliography --UCSC Import cite guide
 
Background Information
Cruzcat Record Location Online
  Encyclopedia of anthropology   GN11 .E63 2006   GVRL
  Encyclopedia of world cultures   GN307.E53 1991
  Encyclopedia of food and culture   GT2850.E53 2003   GVRL
  International dictionary of anthropologists   GN20.I5 1991
  Dictionary of the social sciences   H41.D53 2002   ORO
  Ethnologue : languages of the world   P123.G73 1988   SIL
  International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences   H41 .I58 2001    Abstracts only
  Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory   GN281.E53 2000
  Oxford Dictionaries of Mythology and Folklore   various   ORO
  Country Studies and Area Handbooks   various  LCWEB

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Recommended UCSC Databases

AIO Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library). How to information for AIO
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers articles written 1957 - current
Anthropological Literature Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Included in Anthropology Plus. Citations to articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. Includes items in English and other European languages.
How to information for FirstSearch(ANL)
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: Articles written 1984 to present.

Abstracts in anthropology Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.

Annual review of anthropology Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.

ATLA Religion Database Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The ATLA Religion Database is a searchable index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Subjects include church history, theology, the Bible, and world religions. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1949 - present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
BAS contains citations to materials on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Citations added between 1971 the 1991 include citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs (books) are urged to consult other general resources and databases (such as the MELVYL Union Catalog).
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers 1971 - present.

HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
A searchable index of citations to articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1970 - present

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Ethnography Collection Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Human Relations Area Files Collections of Ethnography is a searchable database of information on world cultures. Resources are indexed by subject and culture.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.

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Library Catalogs
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Full-text Journals 
AnthroSource Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of journal articles published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 2003-current. For selected journals, coverage begins as early as 1880.

JSTOR [Anthropology] Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Formerly titled PCI Full Text. This searchable database contains citations for articles in over 230 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Full text is available for all articles. Please use Netscape or another browser on Mac computers.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1770 - 1995

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Additional Help 
ArchNet (Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University)  archnet.asu.edu/
Anthropology Resources on the Internet    www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm
Anthropology WWW Virtual Library   vlib.anthrotech.com/
AnthroGlobe Bibliographies  coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_index.html
Intute: Anthropology  www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/anthropology/
Stalking the Wiley Ethnography (University of Arizona Library)
VoS: Voice of the Shuttle (UCSB)   vos.ucsb.edu/
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Contact Martha Ramirez (mram@ucsc.edu). Updated 08 October 2007 UCSC Home