Databases for Anthropology

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Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays.
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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines.
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field.
Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more.
Sources include books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and U.S. and Canadian government documents.
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Comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages; currently contains over 7,000 profiles.
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.
Presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact.
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S and Canada (1828-2016).
Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books dating back to 1951, primarily covering anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-Asheville, and Western Carolina University.
Combines music, audio, and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.
Comprehensive collection of classical music, contemporary jazz, world, folk, adult contemporary, Chinese, pop, and rock music.
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Limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Covers the New York Times Late Edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present).
Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005).
Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects.
More than 3,000 albums and 45,000 tracks representing musical traditions from all over the globe.
Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications.
Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series.
Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings.