Guides: Anthropology: Articles & Journals

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Frequently used article databases

Multidisciplinary databases

Cambridge University Press Journals (CRKN)
A collection of 291 electronic journals covering all subject areas.
CBCA Complete (ProQuest)
With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,680 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and education as produced in Canada. Includes 640 full-text periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). Updated daily with full-text content (1985 to present) and bibliographic content (1971 to present).
EBSCO Databases
Collection of all databases provided by EBSCO. You may select which databases you wish to include in your search. Databases include: Academic Source Premier, AgeLine, Agricola, Humanities International Complete, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Medline,and ERIC.
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Indigenous Peoples: North America (Gale)
This archive of primary sources includes monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections.
JSTOR (CRKN)
A collection of 1,083 of the the most important academic journals in the Arts & Sciences, the Biological Sciences, and the Life Sciences. In most instances the volume run is complete back to the first issue. An important source of full-text for older articles and book reviews.
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)
Index for world literature on gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender issues. At present there is a limited full-text component.
Medline (EBSCO)
A sub-set of PubMed; 4,600 biomedical journals indexed/abstracted, with links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
Periodicals Archive Online (CRKN - ProQuest)
Periodicals Archive Online is a full-text journal archive covering close to 500 titles in the humanities and the social sciences with an emphasis on access to the backfiles of key academic journals.
Project Muse
Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
PubMed
Over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and the biomedical and life sciences literature dating back to the 1950's. PubMed includes links to some sites providing full text.
In May 2020 PubMed changed its interface. The Welch Medical Library video reviews the changes and provides a great introduction to searching the database.
SAGE Journals (CRKN)
A collection of 623 peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning.
Taylor & Francis: Social Sciences and Humanities Collection (CRKN)
A collection of articles from 1,191 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Wiley Online Library (CRKN)
A collection of 1,217 full-text multi-disciplinary journals.

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Google Scholar

Citation Indexes

Citation indexes allow you to find articles which have cited other works. You can think of it as a reference list in reverse.

Google Scholar
The “Cited by” feature allows you to see details of later articles that have cited the article whose citation appear in the results list of a search Google Scholar provides citations (publication details) of books, conference proceedings, journal articles and theses from a variety of scholarly publishers, societies and organisations.

Where's the full text?

If you are unsure whether an article is available in full text or not, please click on the 'Check for full text...' link closest to the citation to check if the full text is available at MSVU. The 'Check for full text...' link will check to see if the article is available in another database, or to see if the library has a copy of the article in print. If the article is not available at MSVU please look at our document delivery options.

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