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Publication/ Grant Resources

Ulrichsweb.com This link opens in a new window
Ulrichsweb.com has bibliographic and publisher information for more than 300,000 periodicals including academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, popular magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.

Wenner-Gren Foundation
Supporting anthropological research through grants

Recommended Subject-focused Databases

Please be sure to review the multi-disciplinary databases for broader coverage, the anthropology-specific databases have limited indexing.

If you need help narrowing your search to anthropological-related articles please contact Bandrus@binghamton.edu

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus combines the databases Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index to index more than 5,870 sources and contains over one million records ranging back from the early 19th century to present.
Anthropology Plus joins the databases Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index to index more than 5,870 sources and contains over one million records ranging back from the early 19th century to present. Articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries cover a variety of anthropological studies including cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic.
AnthroSource (Wiley Online Library) This link opens in a new window
AnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association that offers members and subscribing libraries full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline.
It contains more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Archive This link opens in a new window
Primary resources (maps, manuscripts, photos, fieldwork, proceedings, etc.) from the RAI of Great Britain and Ireland. Includes a 150,000-image library of ethnographic photographs dating back to the 1860s. Research interests covered in anthropology, colonial students, botany, and more.
HRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
eHraf is an unique cross-cultural database containing more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Includes the full text of ethnographic books, journal articles and other materials that are indexed by culture and subject.
The full-text materials are subject-indexed at the paragraph-level for precise retrieval of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines as well as the humanities and health sciences.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed reviews of recent research, arranged by topic area.
Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences review articles (dating back to when the annual review began). Most articles provide an exhaustive bibliography. Browse or search individual titles of the Annual Reviews for the Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences, or Social Sciences. Use the Bibliographic Search to search for citations only from all Annual Reviews publications. Coverage: 1932 - present.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press..
Topics covered include news, arts, business, culture, education, the environment, history, journalism, political science, sociology. Spanish language search options available.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes the subset Social Services Abstracts.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Guide to literature of the world about geology and earth sciences. Topics include crystallography, hydrogeology, economic geology, hydrology, environmental geology, marine geology, engineering geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, oceanography, geophysics, and paleontology.
Contains references to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses.

Recommended Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Covers over 11,000 journals in all fields of study.
Peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database, which contains 86 Anthropology journal titles and 86 Archaeology titles.
JSTOR has a "moving wall," which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years, and those with walls from zero to seven years participate in our revenue sharing program. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers the citation indexes: Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports
Also includes BIOSIS Citation Index, Data Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Derwent Innovation Index. Medline (1950-present), Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Zoological Records.

More Anthropology Databases

Special and Digital Collections

Institute for Development Anthropology (Binghamton, N.Y.)
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library and Museum Collection
The Haggerty Collection
The Yi-t'ung Wang Collection and East Asian Collection
Local History Collections
Medical History Collection
Peace Action Movement Collection
Lamont Montgomery Bowers Paper (Rockefeller's secretary) (contains information about the Ludlow Massacre)
Immanuel Wallerstein Collection
Broome County Church Architecture Collection
Public Archaeology Facility Reports
Grace Burkholder Collection (excavations of Saudi Arabia)
Broome County Oral History Project
Herman Hespelt Papers (Phillipines)
David Bernstein Papers
Hazard Lewis Farms Collection (University now located on site)
John McLaughlin Collection of Popular Culture, 1900-2000
Albert Dekin Arctic Collection

To find and use primary sources on the web, see RUSA's: Using Primary Sources on the Web

Open Educational Resources

OpenStax- Anthropology Resources
Provides over 130 links to openly provided video clips, courses, assignments, and other educational content.
Merlot- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching- Anthropology
Provides links to over 160 anthropological tutorials, collections, textbooks, and other educational content
MIT Open Courses in Anthropology
Take undergraduate anthropology courses through MIT
OER Commons Anthropology
Provides over 1000 links to anthropological open courses, educational resources, and collections.