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Anthropology

Guide for Library Research in Anthropology

Journal Articles

There are three main ways to find scholarly journal articles through the library:

Discovery Search - Search for individual journals or articles.
- To narrow your results to scholarly articles, check the "Scholarly Peer Reviewed Articles" box under the "Limit To" header.
eJournals Search - Search for full journals rather than individual articles.
- You can browse volumes of a particular journal or search within that journal.
- "Browse Subjects" in the upper right corner lets you view all ejournals on a particular subject.
Databases - These are collections that allow you to search the contents of many journals at once.

Articles by Subfield

Anthropology

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
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The scholarly literature of anthropology including its subfields, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, cultural, and biological anthropology, from the 1800s to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
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This database contains articles from 32 journals published by the American Anthropological Association between the 1800s and today. A list of these journals appears on the homepage.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

JSTOR: Anthropology
80+ anthropology journals published between the 1800s and present.

Archaeology

eHRAF Archaeology This link opens in a new window
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Archaeology books, journal articles, and dissertations describing prehistoric life and archaeological sites across the world, 1983-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

JSTOR: Archaeology
100+ archaeology journals published between the 1800s and present.

Biological Anthropology

BioOne This link opens in a new window
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Bioscience research journals in full text. Covers 179 titles from 136 society and nonprofit publishers, including some open access journals. Coverage varies; earliest is 1994-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Indexes content from journals, conferences, books, and U.S. patents covering the life sciences and biomedical research since 1926.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Start here for research on human subjects. This is the National Library of Medicine's database of citations to medical journal articles with links to UMass full-text options whenever possible. 1946-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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MEDLINE provides full-text medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
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Citations to periodical articles and other scholarly literature on zoology, biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, and genetics, 1864-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Cultural Anthropology

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews, many in full text, relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles, essays and government documents on native North American history and culture from pre-history to the present, 1800-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of ethnographies originally published as articles, books and dissertations. Its indexing traces social features across cultures, 1983-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
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Articles from scholarly journals on Latin America & the Caribbean, the US-Mexico border area, and U.S. Latinos, 1970-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Citations to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, 1988 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Linguistic Anthropology

JSTOR: Linguistics
50+ full-text linguistics journals published between the 1800s and present.

Linguistics Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Index of scholarly articles in linguistics journals published from 1985 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - LLBA This link opens in a new window
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Index of scholarly articles in linguistics journals and those of related fields published from 1994 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Index of journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics, folklore, and published from 1996 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
An enormous index that contains articles from many more journals than the library has to offer. It also indexes books and other written documents.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

You can access Google Scholar with UMLinks buttons from outside the UMass Amherst IP range ("off campus") by two methods:

1. Access Google Scholar through the Library web site by using this link.
2. Go to generic Google Scholar.
a. Click on "Settings."
b. Click on Library links.
c. Type in "University of Massachusetts" or "UMass Amherst" (or a few other variations).
d. Check "University of Massachusetts Amherst - UMass Check for Full Text" and Save.
e. You will be asked to authenticate somewhere along the way to full text.

If you can't access the full-text of an article, submit an Interlibrary Loan request. This is a free library service where we find another library to share the article and email it to you as a PDF.