Anthropology: Subject Databases

Covers current issues for key American Anthropological Association publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, as well as back issues of all AAA journals.

Human Relations Area File (HRAF) is a full-text database containing works of cultural anthropology and ethnography about cultures throughout the world (mostly non-Western cultures as described by 20th-century Western anthropologists).

Scopus indexes articles from scholarly journals and a few conference proceedings and books from all disciplines. Scopus allows you to locate the most often-cited articles and connect to the articles that cite them.

Contains high-quality, well-cataloged images of museum objects, maps, artworks, artifacts and more.

Ethnographic Video Online contains hundreds of hours of fully transcribed and searchable films documenting groups of people across the world, including documentary film and raw ethnographic interview footage.

Go here for good overviews on a topic. Be sure to search in the Article Title box.

GEOREF is the database of the American Geological Institute. It provides references to serials and other publications covering all aspects of geology and geophysics.

Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.

Indexes journals, books, dissertations and other media covering all aspects of linguistics, speech, language and hearing pathology.

Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

Indexes critical scholarship in the modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.

Provides full-text access to scholarly journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.

Proquest's Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Indexes thousands of scholarly journals, books, reports, conferences and more. Citation information and analysis with cited reference searching available. The collection includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1990-present), Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded (1990-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1990-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present), Book Citation Index (2005-present), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present) and Index Chemicus (1993-present).