duPont Library: Anthropology 306: American Indians: Getting Started

Welcome

This guide is intended to direct you to fundamental resources to use when performing research in the area of anthropology. The resources here are by no means comprehensive, but are intended to help you achieve a sound start to your work.

Please feel free to contact me if you have suggestions for additions or other ways to improve this guide.

Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
A library of discipline-based subject modules created by leading scholars. Each guide includes the most important and significant sources in a specific area of study, with unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. We have these subjects: Anthropology, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, and International Relations. Click on Browse by Subject to view these subjects.

Reference books in the duPont Library

Listed below are some examples of what you will find in the reference collection in the library as well as in some of the online reference collections mentioned above.