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Anthropological Index
Provides indexing to the scholarly literature in anthropology, including general anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and cultural anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Prepared by the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). Now incorporated in Anthropology Plus.
Anthropology Plus 
Provides citations to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Includes the Anthropological Literature database, prepared by Tozzer Library, Harvard University, as well as Anthropological Index, from The Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind), incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library. Updated quarterly, the database indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present.
AnthroSource
Includes current issues for 15 of the American Anthropological Association’s most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology
Quarterly. It also includes the electronic archive of all AAA journals as well as links to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist.
AccessUN
Provides access to the latest two years of United Nations documents and
publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals, as well as bilateral and
multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series, are indexed. Some coverage of indigenous peoples. Older coverage is provided by Index to United Nations Documents and Publications.
America: History and Life 
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature relating to the history of the United States and Canada. It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective 
Citations and abstracts to articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins relating to archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and related fields.
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
Abstracts of worldwide literature related to the management and conservation of international material cultural heritage—broadly interpreted to include works of art, cultural objects, museum collections, archives and library materials, architecture, historic sites, and archaeology.
ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library consists of some 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines. One of its specialized collections is the Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts 
Covers some aspects of cultural anthropology.
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) 
Citations and abstracts to articles appearing in approximately 9,000 periodicals dealing with life science. May be useful for physical anthropology.
Biological Sciences Set 
Covers a vast range of subjects in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. May be useful for physical anthropology.
Clothing & Textile Arts
Index to the behavioral, historic and artistic periodical literature (in English) dealing with clothing and the textile arts, containing over 25,000 citations.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Some material (books, articles, conference proceedings, etc.) on indigenous peoples.
Cross-Cultural CD
Text files extracted from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF).
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Some coverage of anthropology, indexing Ethnology and the Journal of Anthropological Research, for example.
GEOBASE 
Among areas covered are ethnography, development anthropology, human ecology, and applied archaeology.
George Handy Bates Samoan Papers:
Photographs
One of the University of Delaware Library Digital Collections, the Bates Papers: Photographs includes over one hundred forty albumen print photographs of the people and scenic views of Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, and Tonga. The photographs make up Series III of the George Handy Bates Samoan Papers in the Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library. The George Handy Bates Samoan Papers, 1869-1916, contain correspondence, documents, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and other material relating to George Handy Bates' tenure as a special investigator into Samoan affairs beginning in 1886, and as a commissioner to the 1889 Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs. The papers are valuable for studying the culture and history of Samoa, particularly during the 1880s. Consult the online finding aid for more information about this collection.
Historical Abstracts 
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature relating to history, excluding the United States and Canada. Historical Abstracts includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Multidisciplinary bibliography of published material on Latin America, 1935 to the present.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 
Citations to articles in scholarly journals and specialized magazines. Titles relating to anthropology include American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Archaeology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, Anthropological Quarterly, Antiquity, Archaeology, Biblical Archaeologist, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Current Anthropology, Ethnic Groups, Ethnohistory, Folklore, Human Organization, Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Journal of American Culture, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Man, Oceania, and World Archaeology.
Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and
publications. The Index benefits researchers who need information on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature. Contains some material on indigenous peoples. Coverage of the most current two years is provided by AccessUN.
ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science) 
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
LexisNexis Congressional
Contains indexes to publications of the U.S. Congress, including the
Congressional Serial Set, published and unpublished House and Senate committee hearings, and Congressional committee prints. Includes some American ethnography.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 
Provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA.
MarciveWeb DOCS
Index to United States government publications cataloged by the Government
Printing Office. Many government agencies have active programs in anthropology.
MEDLINE 
Abstracts and citations to journal articles covering all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary science and the preclinical sciences. Useful especially for forensic anthropology.
MLA International Bibliography 
Indexes published scholarly journals and books in literature, language, linguistics, and
folklore.
National Archeological Database
Sponsored by the National Park Service. Inventories of over 120,000 archeological
investigations, guidance on compliance with the Native American Grave Protection And Repatriation Act,
and maps displaying archaeological and environmental data at the state/country level are
accessible.
Periodicals Index Online 
An electronic index to the contents of thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Areas of coverage include ancient civilizations, anthropology/ethnology, archaeology, and folklore.
PrimateLit
“A bibliographic database for primatology.” Includes PrimateLit (1940-present), Current Primate References (last six months), and Books Received (last six months).
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author.
Sociological Abstracts 
References and abstracts to journal articles in sociology and related disciplines. Useful for social
anthropology.