duPont Library: Anthropology: Find Journal Articles

Anthropology Databases

The databases listed here are among the best to use when performing research in Anthropology. For an expanded listing of possible resources, see the Anthropology listing in the Electronic Databases by Subject. If the article’s full text is not immediately available, use the Journal Finder to help you locate the full-text. (Just type in the title of the journal to see where it is available.) If we do not have access to it, you can request the article via Sewanee ILL, our interlibrary loan program.

Preferred Databases

Anthropological Index Online This link opens in a new window
AIO provides indexing to a vast collection of anthropological literature held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum, with coverage back to 1957. Because some of the journals are somewhat obscure, it is likely that many articles you find will need to be requested via interlibrary loan. Citations only.
Freely available database.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
A collection of Anthropology journals from the American Anthropology Association. We have full-text access to most of the titles from 1997 through the Wiley Online Library interface.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary database that offers indexing and the text of articles published in key academic journals. Anthropology is one of many areas covered by JSTOR.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of articles from approximately 2,700 publications (many of them peer-reviewed.) Also includes abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Covers every core undergraduate subject (sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and education) as well as cross-disciplinary areas such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history. 1982 to present.
All the content of these full-text databases as well the full runs of every full-text journal they index: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Also contains the full text from ONLY the journals in selected databases to which Wilson has full text rights: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Contains abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Search interface: EBSCOhost.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This large index is focused on sociology in a very broad sense and includes many journals that have content in various areas of anthropological research. The full text of many of the articles is readily available in the SocINDEX, some dating back more than 100 years.
Topics covered include: abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. Search interface: EBSCOHost.