Primary Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

Anthropology PLUS
Also Known as: RLG Eureka Anthropology PLUS, Anthropological Index (via Eureka), Anthropology Plus, Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature
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Contains bibliographic citations from the journal holdings of the de facto national anthropological library of Britain Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1957 to the present. Limited data for the pre-1970 period.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007
    Eureka interface phasing out in September 2007

Anthropological Index Online
Also Known as: Anthropology Plus, Anthro Plus
Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, and linguistics. Languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Russian, Italian, and others....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Limited data for the late 1960s.
Supplemental URLs
    Notice - Temporary service. Click here

Anthropological Literature
Also Known as: Anthro Plus, Anthropolgy Plus
Social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Articles in related fields including art, demogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Late 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.

Important Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Also Known as: Art and Archaeology Technology Abstracts, Technical Studies in Art and Archaeology
REQUIRES INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 or higher. Advanced searching requires registration. Abstracts of material cultural heritage management and conservation literature worldwide. Topics include methods of ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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ABIA Index
Also Known as: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Bibliographic citations for scholarly publications in South Asian and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. Subjects covered include prehistory and protohistory, historical archaeology, ancient art his...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Abstracts in Anthropology
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APIS - Advanced Papyrological Information System
APIS, the Advanced Papyrological Information System, is a consortium of American universities intending to bring their papyrus collections online The databases being compiled at each university conta...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Archaeology Data Service -- British Archaeological holdings Search System
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoti...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Digital archive of recordings and texts in more than 130 indigenous languages of Latin America and scholarship on those languages. AILLA provides audio recordings and trans...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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biab : The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography
Also Known as: British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
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Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Also Known as: BAS online archive
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Bibliografia Mesoamericana
The purpose of Bibliografia Mesoamericana is to provide comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the published literature pertaining to Mesoamerica, including archaeology, art history, ethnography, eth...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Bibliography of Asian Studies
- from publisher website
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Also Known as: bnna
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CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human he...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1910-present.

Dyabola Project
Also Known as: Dyabola Literature Database, Archdologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs), Datenbank der attischen Grabreliefs des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Fr, hgeschichte Europas (RGK), 1992-2006,Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts
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eHRAF Archaeology
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Modeled after HRAFs Collection of Ethnography, the Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies. Includes general and topical descriptions for a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    former interface

eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
    Overview and User Tips

Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
- from CSA Databases
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 1, 2007
    Eureka interface through mid-September 2007

IndexCat
Searchable contents of Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. U.S. Army, Series 1-5 ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

International Tree-Ring Data Bank
The International Tree-Ring Data Bank is maintained by the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology. The Data Bank includes raw ring width or wood density measurements,...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Also Known as: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, SSCI, SCI, AHCI,ISI
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    ISI Citation Indexes Tutorial
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society - Author Index
This site provides an alphabetized list of authors and full-text links to their contributions to the "Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society."...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society - Author Index
This author index provides links to on-line full text versions of articles published in the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society (JANES). JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Soci...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Also Known as: LLBA
- from CSA Databases
Linguistics, literacy, language acquisition, speech and hearing, and language research....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes [incomplete?] (CSA)

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present, MED consists of a relational database...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch - Database of Ancient Near East and Classical Studies
Working with Dr. Aren Maeir of the Institute of Archaeology at Bar Ilan University in Israel, we have compiled a resource application database for archaeologists working in the field of Ancient Near E...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Nestor - Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
An international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields, from the Paleolithic through the end of the Geometric period, covering the Aegean, incl...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Numismatics Literature
Searchable version of American Numismatic Society's Numismatic Literature, the comprehensive bibliography of research on coins and coinage. Searchable version does not cover most recent years!...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Supplemental URLs
    Recent NumLit volumes

Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)
Also Known as: AEB Online, Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Published by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, this international index of books and articles covering Egyptological liter...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Physical Anthropology Index
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Race Relations Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1975-present.

Roman Provincial Coinage Online
Database describing Antonine period (AD 138-192) Roman provincial coinage, based upon holdings of major coin cabinets. Searchable by coin type imagery, mint city, minting date, magistrate and other na...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
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Related Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
Also Known as: art retrospective
Art. Coverage includes materials in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed materials are included....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1929-1984

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English, ATLA Religion also i...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
- from CSA Databases
Covers European and American art from the fourth century to the present. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973 to the present. Updated quarterly.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 1, 2007
    Eureka interface ending mid-September 2007

CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human he...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    CABICODE Alphabetical List (CABI web)
    CAB Thesaurus (beta version - CABI web)
    CAB Abstracts Serials Scanned (CABI web)

CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
CLASE is a social sciences and humanities database created in 1975 at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). It contains more than 200,000 citations to articles, essays, book reviews, sta...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
Conservation and restoration of cultural property...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1932-
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EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Titles List

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.
Supplemental URLs
    ABC-CLIO access
    EbscoHost access

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , ISIS Current Bibliography , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, books...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for pos...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    former interface

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes (CSA)