Databases/Indexes

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Science - Has numerous entries in archaeology and cultural and physical anthropology.

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Indexes and Abstracts

Anthropological Literature - Also indexes articles and essays archaeology, art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Includes material in in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present. Draws from over 800 journals and series.

Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
Access - Web 

ArticleFirst - Indexes articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals back to 1990. 
          Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
          Access - Web 

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - From the database's description: "The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics."

Social Sciences Abstracts - Covers 350 English language periodicals in all the social sciences, including anthropology. 
        Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
        Access -   Web - 1983 - present 

Sociological Abstracts - Contains citations and abstracts of journal articles in sociology and related disciplines, including anthropology.  Also includes abstracts of conference papers, relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts, and abstracts of selected sociology books. 
       Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
       Access - Web 1963 - present 

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Full text

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - Cross disciplinary database going back to the early 1980s, with a good deal of full text. For information about searching Academic Search Premier see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle/ebsco1.htm
          Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
          Access - Web 

J-Stor - Contains the full text of 16 journals in anthropology and 10 in archaeology.  Note: J-Stor omits recent volumes (3-7 years) of journals that it carries. 
        Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
        Access - Web 

Kluwer Journals - Has more than a dozen full text journals in anthropology (under Social Sciences). 

Project Muse - Contains the full text of recent issues of Anthropological Quarterly, Ethnohistory, and Human Biology.  Also contains the full text of journals in related disciplines. 
        Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
        Access - Web 

Science Direct - Has the full text of journals in linguistics (under Social Science). 
        Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
        Access - Web 

Wiley InterScience Site - Has full text journals in physical anthropology. 
        Location - http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/databases
        Access - Web 

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