Anthropology 101

Professor Koyama

November 19 and 20, 2003

Tony Doyle

1. Keyword searching. (For tutorial see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle/Boolean_files/v3_document.htm.)

Identify the keywords in the following examples.

a. What are we to make of the great genetic kinship between human beings and chimpanzees?

b. Is race a social construct?

c. What’s the difference between a dialect and a language?

d. What are two of the leading feminist criticisms of patriarchy?

2. Off campus access to databases.

3. To get into databases lacking the green house or to get access to all the full text that Hunter offers you have to be on the proxy server. To sign up follow the links from http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm.

4. Getting in. From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm click on

5. Suppose you’re looking for articles on the issue of whether gender differences are primarily socially constructed (as opposed to biological). In the first box type gender*; in the second box type social construct*. This search should get you roughly 270 results.

6. Limiting to scholarly articles. Beneath the search boxes scroll down to

and check the box. (Warning: This feature doesn’t guarantee that every article you retrieve will be peer reviewed, since not every piece that appears in a scholarly journal is peer reviewed. If you have doubts, ask a librarian.)

7. Narrowing your results. Suppose you’re looking for articles that focus on women or girls in their discussion of gender. Type women or girl* in the third box. This will trim your results to around 120.

8. Results. Some articles offer HTML full text (generally just the text), PDF full text (the text as it actually appeared in the magazine or journal), or both. Still others--indicated by Linked Full Text--take you out of the database to full text that Hunter subscribes to. Note: if you need to cite the page number(s) of articles, then you need PDF. (See below to determine whether or not Hunter owns a journal.) Notice that you can re-sort by relevance at the upper right corner of the citation list.

9. Assessing results. Clicking on the title of the article will give you the full record of the article, including an abstract. Pay special attention to the subjects and to the source, that is, to where the article was published. Note that it’s possible to email the article; click on the E-mail link at the top of the page.

10. Tracking down journals. From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu click on on the left side of your screen. Type in the name of the magazine or journal you’re seeking. If Hunter owns it, you will find information about holdings and links to the full text.

11. Finding articles not available electronically. Not everything is available electronically. When you don’t find what you need in Electronic Journals, you have to go into CUNY+ and do a title search under the name of the journal. From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu (the Hunter Library Homepage) choose CUNY+.

12. Once in type the journal or magazine name in the second box.

13. Click on the second entry (on The Atlantic monthly)

14. Note Format field. Serial indicates magazine, newspaper, or journal. Click on Hunter-Main to get information about dates that Hunter has and where the journal is kept.

15. Finding books. Suppose you’re looking for books offering a feminist perspective on anthropology. In the keywords (top) box type feminis* and anthropology.

16. This will give you a list of 23 books on the topic. On the right look for Hunter-Main. Click on this link (under Holdings) to get the call number and to determine whether or not the book is in. (To get more information about the book itself click on its title or the entry’s line number.)

17. Searching all CUNY libraries. CUNY+ defaults to Hunter. To search all of CUNY choose above.

18. Lexis-Nexis http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm (For a tutorial on Lexis-Nexis see http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tdoyle)

Lexis-Nexis has hundreds of newspapers and magazines (nearly all full text), some going back over twenty years in full text. From http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm choose Lexis/Nexis.

19. Then choose .

20. Conducting a search. There are five steps, the first three of which are mandatory.

21. Step one: Select General News.

22. Step two: select Major Papers (see screen shot below).

23. Step three: Suppose you’re looking for either Kennewick Man or the African Burial Grounds. In the first box type kennewick man or african burial grounds (Note: the exclamation point functions as the truncation symbol in Lexis-Nexis.)

24. Step four: Change date to All available dates.

25. Step five: type new york times (This will (more or less) limit your search to the Times.)

26. Results (I). This search should yield roughly 65 articles.

27. Results (II). L-N gives you your results chronologically. Results are automatically listed (“sorted”) by date, with the most recent article first. You can re-sort by relevance by clicking on .

28. To see the full text click on the newspaper name, in this case The New York Times.

29. Once in notice the email option in the upper right of your screen.

30. Social Sciences Abstracts (http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/webres.htm). Social Sciences Abstracts is more specialized than Academic Search Premier or Lexis-Nexis. I would recommend that you resort to it only if you’re not finding what you need among books or in the two databases that we’ve covered. Most of the articles indexed are scholarly. There is no full text. If you decide to use this database, you should ask a librarian on the fourth floor for assistance.