This online version of Abstracts in Anthropology allows users to search article abstracts for keywords. Abstracts in Anthropology covers the subfields of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.
Coverage: 2001-2006
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Contains citations and abstracts related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline.
Coverage: 1990-
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Indexes and abstracts books,
journals, research reports, and consumer guides related to aging and social gerontology. AgeLine
includes information on theories of aging, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, marketing to older
adults, elder care, Alzheimers, health care costs and policy, financial and retirement planning,
fitness, nutrition, and more.
Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons.
Coverage: 1978-;
selected 1966-1977
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Showcases some of the nation’s most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals.
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This collection of letters and diaries provides firsthand accounts from politicians, generals, soldiers, prisoners, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The authors are the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers. Over 100,000 pages of source material indexed for easy searching. Includes 4,000 pages of facsimiles of previously unpublished manuscript material.
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This
collection includes full-text PDFs of current and back issues
of publications by scientists and their colleagues from the
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in the areas of zoological
systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.
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Indexes
journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social,
cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore,
material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The database offers coverage of all core periodicals
in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
Coverage: Late
19th century-
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Provides indexing and full-text access to peer-reviewed journals,
newsletters, and bulletins from the American Anthropological
Association (AAA).
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A growing digital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information. Covers many time periods, cultures, and the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, and ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Best viewed in Internet Explorer. Enable browser pop-ups in order to use all the features of ARTstor.
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Provides citations and abstracts for art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealer’s catalogs, and articles, focusing on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This bilingual database encompasses writings on the visual arts including traditional fine arts (drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, etc.), architecture, decorative and applied arts (crafts, folk art, graphic arts, etc.).
Coverage: 1973-
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A free database of more than 8,000 resources from disciplines related to child care and early education. Resources in the collection include research reports, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments and measures, citations for scholarly journal articles and books, grey literature, government documents, and more.
Coverage: 1995-
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CIAO is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Coverage: 1991-
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Indexes and abstracts more than 600 journals, 300 of which also include full text articles. CMMC contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing as well as over 3,000 author biographies.
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Includes single-themed reports from CQ Press, dating back to 1923. All kinds of topics are covered, including social trends, health concerns, the economy, education, and technology.
Coverage: 1923-
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This easy-to-search collection of reference books is an excellent alternative to Wikipedia. Use it to find background information, definitions, facts, and lists of resources on a wide variety of subjects. The collection is particularly strong in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies.
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Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency,
juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries
of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide
range of topics in criminal justice.
Coverage: 1968-
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This completely full-text reference collection is a good place to find basic
background information on popular topics related to health, history, literature, science, or social
sciences. The collection includes encyclopedia articles, biographies, literary criticism, primary
source documents, and a number of images, sound clips, and short video clips. The majority of the
collection is written for a high school or middle school audience; a small portion is targeted to
undergraduates. The collection is not intended to support in-depth, scholarly research.
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Provides a combined search for
Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch History which feature newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic and minority presses;
GenderWatch which features historical and current perspectives of gender roles; and
Alt-Press Watch which showcases some of the nation’s most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals.
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Personal accounts and unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes narratives, diaries, journals, and letters and documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Includes maps and images.
Coverage: 1534-1850
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Comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications. Coverage includes agricultural biotechnology, air quality, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements, hazardous waste, pollution (land, air, water, noise), toxicology & toxic emissions, and waste management.
Coverage: 1967-
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Feature newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic and minority presses.
Coverage: 1960-
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A multidisciplinary collection of electronic reference books. Subjects include business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, and science. To search a specific reference book, click the plus (+) sign to show publication titles, then click the title you wish to search. Otherwise, you will be searching all the reference books simultaneously.
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Combines more than 230 academic, gray, and popular literature titles to provide historical and current perspectives on gender roles.
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Geobase is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database of human and physical geography, ecology, geology,
oceanography, geomechanics and development studies. The material covered includes refereed papers,
trade journals and magazine articles and it provides excellent coverage of the international literature,
including books, conference proceedings and reports.
Coverage: 1994-
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Digitized version of the New York Times since its first issue in 1851. Patrons can search the full text of articles to find articles on a wide variety of topics.
Coverage: 1851-2006
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Evaluate and compare journals
in the sciences and social sciences using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical
journals. JCR is related to Web of Science and is based on similar data. Use JCR to find the
most frequently cited journals in a field and/or a journal's impact factor, among other information.
Coverage: 2002-
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Electronic full text of over 550 core journals in disciplines ranging from
history to business to literature to science and mathematics. Coverage begins with the first issue
of a title. The most recent three to five years worth of issues for a title are not normally included.
All text is completely searchable. Holdings are updated annually.
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An index to literature of the political left, with an emphasis on political
and cultural scholarship inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis has been placed on significant
but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics include social issues such as the labor movement,
the environment, art and aesthetics, philosophy, law and history. Many of the 774 sources are not
indexed elsewhere.
Coverage: 1982-
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Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals which have been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries. Besides the nearly 900 legal titles, it also indexes over 1,000 business and general interest titles. The full text of many articles is available.
Coverage: 1980-present
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Contains descriptive information
and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's Yearbooks. The database
covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental,
behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational,
speech & hearing, and sensory motor.
Coverage: 1985-
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Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including some from Kansas, and television and radio news transcripts.
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Personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1840 to the present. Includes some audio files and facsimiles of personal scrapbooks. Primary source documents from immigrants who have come from virtually all over the world.
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Historical resources on nearly 500 North American groups. Autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Also includes 2,000 oral histories presented in audio and transcript form and at least 20,000 photographs.
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Letters and diaries detailing the personal lives and experiences hundreds of women spanning over 300 years. Includes over 1,500 biographies. Ideal for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, as well as other disciplines.
Coverage: Colonial times - 1950
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Search for full text collections of academically-oriented digital resources. Researchers are able to identify resources in repositories that are freely accessible online with no restrictions. OAIster is now searchable through WorldCat.org.
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Indexes publications on public affairs,
social policy, and the social sciences from over 120 countries
throughout the world. Articles are published in English, French,
German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Types of materials
indexed include articles, books, government documents, conference
reports, grey literature, and Internet materials. Newspapers
and newsletters are not indexed.
Coverage: 1972-;
archive 1915-1976
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Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas such as conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace psychology.
Coverage: 1964-
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Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
PILOTS is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction,Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
Coverage: 1871-
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Produced by the American
Psychological Association and contains citations and abstracts
of the world's literature in psychology, behavioral sciences,
and related subjects. It includes citations to journal articles
from more than 1900 journal titles, technical reports, and
dissertations of psychological relevance from more than 50 countries.
PsycINFO also includes books and book chapters, including those
that were formerly part of PsycINFO Chapters and Books, and
the information from Historical PsycINFO (1887 to 1966).
Coverage: 1800s-
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Includes bibliographic records covering public administration, including public administration theory. Over 60,000 records from the most important sources in the discipline are included.
Coverage: 1974-
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Indexes over 250 periodicals covering religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology. The full text of many articles is available.
Coverage: 1980-present
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Consists of large-scale plans of cities and towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado. In addition to street names and location of buildings, the maps also include details such as the construction materials and function of buildings, property boundaries, railroads, wells, etc. Because the key is very detailed it may take a while to load onto the screen.
Coverage: 1867-1970
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This complete digital collection from LexisNexis includes both the United States Congressional Serial Set and its predecessor, the American State Papers. These two titles cover a broad spectrum of topics addressed by Congress and the President from this country’s early history to recent times.
Coverage: 1789-1969
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35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
World Music, Smithsonian Folkways, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, an extensive children's collection (kindergarten through middle school).
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Provides bibliographic coverage of research focused on social work,
human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
This database abstracts and indexes over 1,304 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal
articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Coverage: 1980-
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Indexes and abstracts international literature in sociology and related
disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles
and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts
of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Coverage: 1963-
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A searchable archive of news broadcasts consisting of a core collection of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News, along with special news programs that include presidential speeches, election, and war coverage.
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Examines
perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times
to the present by bringing together books, images, documents,
scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting
the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
Coverage: 1600-2000
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