LibGuides: Anthropology (Yale-NUS College): Articles/Databases

General Databases

Academic Search Complete A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Scopus Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in biology ,physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Includes Science Citation Index (1900-), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-).

Videos/Movies

Alexander Street Press
Stream documentaries and films from Alexander Street Press. This database includes the Filmakers Library Online and the Asian Film Online collections.
Kanopy
Kanopy provides educational institutions access to one of the largest collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable.

Key Resources in Anthropology

Anthropology Plus Provides bibliographic information for materials covering Anthropology, Archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research from 5,870 sources. Subjects also include Art History, Folklore, Linguistics, Museum Studies, Psychology, and Religious Studies.
AnthroSource / American Anthropologist Published by the American Anthropological Association. n1 (01 Jan. 1888) -
Annual Review of Anthropology
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online Contains nearly 800,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
eHRAF World Cultures cross-cultural database of primary source materials on all aspects of cultural and social life worldwide. It provides a systematically organized collection of books and articles on ethnographic and other materials from a variety of sources. Full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Two thesauri, Outline of the world cultures (OWC), and: Outline of cultural materials (OCM), organize the collections.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters. Provides cross-disciplinary coverage across the social sciences, focused on four primary subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. Coverage: 1951 - current
Sociological Abstracts Covers over 1700 publications in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences. In addition to journal articles, this database also includes abstracts of books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations and conference papers.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science is a comprehensive research platform and one of the largest multidisciplinary index covering literature from sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, open access material etc. can be accessed through one interface, using a variety of powerful search and analysis tools. Web of Science also offers the option to find the Hot and Highly Cited papers, the most impactful papers within a subject field.

NUSL Databases

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Indexes journal articles on all aspects of the nature and use of language. Includes book reviews.
Proquest Social Sciences Databases
Comprehensive search of 19 social sciences-focused databases, including: Sociological Abstracts, PILOTS, Periodicals Index Online, PAIS International, LLBA and more.
Social Sciences Abstracts
Covers 625 of the most important English-language journals across all the social sciences, including full text of many of them.