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Journal Articles via Article Databases

  • Start with the first three databases on this list. ALL of you will likely benefit from these.

  • For Anthropology 191HA students: Try the specific indexes noted by your name (with numbers corresponding to the list below) on the list of Resource Recommendations.

  • For additional indexes on the Web, go to the Library's Article Databases page.
  • Anthropology Plus
    • Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index covers core periodicals internationally in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals from the late 19th century to the present.

  • AnthroSource
    • Anthropology database for many of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including backfiles and current issues of American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin, and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, plus a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.

  • Social Science Citation Index / Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-)
    • The Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and Science Citation Index. Covers thousands of journals in a wide array of disciplines. Search by topic, author, journal title, or cited author (to identify articles which cite that author's article).

  • America: History & Life
    • Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, published since 1964.

  • Annual Review of Anthropology (1984-  with full text for 1996- )
    • Bibliographic essays reviewing the year's scholarship in Anthropology.

  • Bibliografia Mesoamericana
    • Provides indexing of literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica, including archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history and linguistics.

  • Bibliography of Native North Americans
    Indexes books, essays, journal articles, US and Canadian government documents and other publications concerning the history, life and culture of native North Americans from the 16th century to the present. Contains the citations from the eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations.
    Directions: Click box next to 'Biblio. of Native N. Americans', then choose 'Open selected databases'.

  • Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971- )
    • Index of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on all parts of Asia.

  • eHRAF Archaeology
    • Full text, fully-indexed collections of documents on archaeological traditions, subtraditions, and important sites worldwide, from Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

  • eHRAF World Cultures
    • Full text, fully-indexed collections of articles, books and manuscripts on over 360 cultures worldwide, from Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

  • ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
    • Index to journal articles from 1969 to late 2003 and ERIC documents (1966-2003) on educational research and practice. Allows access to the full-text of most ERIC documents from 1996-2003.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch (1990- )
    • Provides the complete text of articles from newspapers and magazines of the ethnic minority press in America.

  • EBSCO Academic Search Complete
    • Citations for articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences, plus legal, business, and health journals. For some titles, provides complete text of articles.

  • Family & Society Studies Worldwide (1970- )
    • Indexes publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work. Covers popular issues and information for professionals in the fields of social work, social science, and family practice. Many citations provide the complete text of the article.

  • FRANCIS
    • An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art, and literature from 1984 to the present.

  • GenderWatch (1970s- )
    • Contains the full text of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Provides in-depth coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives.

  • HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index(1970- )
    • Index to journals on Central & South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the U.S. from 1970 to the present.

  • HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies (1935- )
    • Indexes scholarly works on Latin America, covering social sciences and humanities in alternating years.

  • IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
    • Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals, including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent, 1983 to the present.

  • Latin American periodicals tables of contents LAPTOC
    • Searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 900 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. If the journals are not available in the UCLA Catalog or in Melvyl, UCLA students, faculty, and staff may follow the instructions for online photocopy request. This database was created by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP).

  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
    • Indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles in linguistics, language behavior and related disciplines, 1985 to the present.

  • MLA International Bibliography
    • Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1923 to the present.

  • Native Health Databases
    • Bibliographic information and abstracts of more than 8,000 health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations, dating from 1652 to the present.

  • PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) (1972- )
    • Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics.

  • PsycInfo (1887- )
    • Citations and abstracts for articles in psychology journals, conference proceedings, books, and dissertations.

  • PubMed (1965- )
    • Index to articles in medicine and life science.

  • Sociological Abstracts (1963- )
    • Index (with abstracts) to journals in sociology

  • Women's Studies International (1972- )
    • Combined access to several women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, POPLINE, and Women of Color. Covers feminism, history, ethnic studies, health, social sciences, U.S. and worldwide.

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Compiled by Patti S. Caravello, January 2007

Last Updated: January 26, 2007
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