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Selected general databases

  • Anthropology plus is the most comprehensive citation database of bibliographic materials in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies from the late 1800s to today. Unites two premier indexes, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) It includes extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from over 2,500 journals and edited works.
  • IBSS international bibliography of the social sciences (via CSA) provides access to the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, one of the largest and most comprehensive social sciences databases in the world. Anthropology and Sociology are key disciplines covered. It is an excellent database which provides a European perspective to balance the other US based indexes in the Library. Highly recommended.
  • Expanded academic ASAP contains 1,500 indexed titles 1980-, 520 of these are available in full text. It is a multidisciplinary database covering virtually everything but the pure sciences. Legaltrac, a legal information database will also be available for searching at this site.
  • Anthropology Review Database (ARD) (ARD), is an extensive, and fully searchable, database of refereed reviews of anthropological books, audiovisual materials, software and multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources.
  • BHI : British humanities index 1962- an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities with a British/European bias, BHI indexes over 320 journals covering a broad range of subjects including gender studies, religion, current affairs, political science, education, environment and foreign affairs. Selectively indexes weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK and the United States. Very useful adjunct to American based indexes and for cross disciplinary topics not covered well by social science databases alone.
  • Sociological abstracts (via CSA) 1963- . Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and no evaluative abstracts of journal articles. Produced in the US, it has a strong US bias. Topics covered include culture and social structure, demography, economic development, environment, family and social welfare, health and medicine and law, history and theory of sociology, media studies, organizational theory, sociology of religion and science, rural and urban sociology, social development, social differentiation, social psychology and group interaction, sociology of the arts, business, education , studies in violence and power, substance abuse and addiction, welfare services and gender studies.
  • JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive (retrospective full text) is a searchable electronic archive of full text of over 100 journals in a wide range of disciplines. Dates range from last century to 1997. Within JSTOR select 'Browse' from the menu bar to see either the alphabetical or discipline list of journals contained
  • ProQuest dissertations & theses includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats. One subset is included in the database, Dissertations & theses: A&I.
  • Current contents connect is a bibliographic service produced in the US. Indexes over 7,000 journals in arts, science, social science and humanities.
  • United Nations Official Documents : ODS contains official documents of the United Nations. Full-text access to the following official UN documents in pdf (image file) format. Includes resolutions from 1946, other official documents from 1992 and various UN journals.
  • PAIS international (via CSA) 1976 - , covers information from 120 countries relating to public policy, social policy and the social sciences in general. The following subjects are included: economics, political science, public administration, international law and relations, the environment and demography. Includes English language materials, and materials in five other languages. Coverage: indexes more than 425,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Excludes: newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
  • CSAC's Ethnographics Gallery
    • UK Anthropology Theses is a database of British anthropology doctorates from 1970 on. Abstracts are available. Theses in related areas, or cross-disciplinary areas that include anthropology may not be listed.
  • Social science citation index (via Web of Science) 1997- includes Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) 1997-present and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) 1997-present
  • Arts & humanities citation index (via Web of Science) contains over 1300 journals in the arts/humanities and related social sciences indexed from 1980.
  • Academic research library there is much duplication between this database and Expanded academic index, but there is a useful separate but small religious periodicals index.
  • Social Science Research Network a free database of thousands of scholarly and working papers, some full text.
  • PERIND : periodicals index produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity). From 1980 on. PERIND is a multidisciplinary database indexing approximately 270 core journal titles published internationally and in Singapore. The journals are mainly in English with a small number in Malay. They include book reviews, review articles, editorials, letters, speeches, lectures, interviews, obituaries, panel discussions, commentaries, legislation notes, case notes and clinical case studies. Most journals date from 1980, though medicine is covered from 1975 and law from 1932. Note that PERIND started as an index to periodical literature but beginning from mid-1997, it covers also book chapters and conference papers (both published and unpublished).
  • Ciao : Columbia international affairs online is designed to be a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.
  • ProQuest religion 1986 - indexes over 100 journals in the field of religious affairs and religious thought.
  • ATLA religion database 1949 - , available from the Matheson Library information desk. Indexes citations in scholarly fields in religion in 34 languages with citations from over 1,400 journals as well as essay citations from multi-author works and over 350,000 book review citations. It provides one-stop access to three crucial ATLA indexes: Index to book reviews in religion; Religion index one; and, Religion index two. 2 disks.

Repositories

  • Arrow Repository
    Repository of Monash University research material
  • OAIster
    OAIster serves as the key search portal for Institutional repositories - digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community.Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster contains over a 18 million records harvested from over 1034 institutions.

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