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ANT 416: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Journal Articles
It takes time for information to find its way into books. If you are doing
research on a topic that is happening how, you will probably want to begin
your search with indexes to periodical literature.
Think of a recent news event: first reports of it appeared on the Internet, TV and radio, then in the daily newspaper, and next in weekly news magazines. Over time more lengthly articles on the event will appear in more scholarly
journals, and next books on the topic might be published.
If a topic is a very current one, you may have trouble finding it covered
in a periodical index. It takes time for articles to be printed, and an
additional length of time for periodical indexes to be compiled and
distributed. Databases like ingenta, that quickly makes periodicals'
tables of content available electronically, are an attempt to shorten the time
delay between the appearance of an article in a periodical and the coverage of
that article in periodical indexing databases.
For recent years many journal articles are available electronically, either
through links in the records contained in these indexes, or within collections
of electronic resources to which the library subscribes. When using these
indexes, you really have two goals in mind: 1) you want to locate good
articles on your topic, and 2) having found references to good articles, you
next want to locate their complete texts.
First locate articles you want to read, and then determine where you need
to go to find their texts. The articles will be in a variety of locations -
on the web, in paper in our book stacks, in a microformat, or available only
in another library. The records in these indexes offer clues that help you
locate articles, and you'll be following different paths to get your hands on the
articles you need.
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ONLINE, late 1950s to date
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- Anthropological index online provides indexing to current
periodicals held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum from the
1960s to the present, with "a limited amount of data available from the late
1950s."
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL
LITERATURE, 1984 to date
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 1979 to date
- D. H. Hill Z5112 .A57 (Tower stacks)
- Anthropological literature indexes articles and essays on
anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics,
psychology, and religious studies. It indexes articles published in English
and other European languages.
- "Anthropological Literature online now (9/04) covers articles
published from the late 19th century to the present."
- At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library you'll find a good Anthropological Literature User Guide.
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WEB OF SCIENCE
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- Collectively, these three databases index more than 8,000 peer-reviewed
journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data,
full-length author abstracts, and cited references. Three indexes are
currently available: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social
Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
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INGENTA
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- This is a Table of Contents database that offers free searching and
browsing of more than 25,000 publications. Full-text articles are available
to users who subscribe to the ingenta service. Check local library
holdings and consider ILL as an alternative to purchasing articles you
identify here.
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