MRU Library Website: Anthropology: Articles

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete
Journal and magazine articles across a broad range of subject areas.
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Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
ScienceDirect
Contains full text journal content in the areas of social & behavioral sciences, health & life sciences, and physical sciences.
JSTOR Collection
Digital library of academic journals, ebooks and primary sources. Includes content across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Note: Use the JSTOR platform for access to Primary Source collections including 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, and Global Plants and are not available for inclusion in LibrarySearch.

Find out more about indexing of these resources: https://support-jstor-org.libproxy.mtroyal.ca/hc/en-us/articles/5322416293399-JSTOR-ProQuest-Ex-Libris-Discovery-Resources
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing sociology sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
Scopus
A large abstract and citation database of research literature with links to full text resources available from MRU. Records with references go back to 1996, pre-1996 records go back to 1884.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Covers all aspects of Indigenous North American culture, history, and life, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
Canadian Newsstream
Access to the full text of Canadian newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines, and television and radio transcripts.
Dissertations & Theses Global
Offers full-text dissertations in the humanities, social sciences, technology and more.

Anthropology Specific Databases

Anthropology Plus
Provides indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, indigenous studies and material culture.

PrimateLit: a Bibliographic Database for Primatology
Scientific literature (books and journal articles) on non-human primates from 1940 to the present.
D-PLACE
Open-access database D-PLACE with cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’ based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950).

Article Databases - Related Disciplines

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
A source of full text for nursing and allied health journals providing full text for journals indexed in CINAHL.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
MEDLINE
Indexes journals covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences.
America: History & Life with Full Text
Articles focused on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Google Scholar Search

Yes, Google does article searches! Go in through this link and find out what Google Scholar has that you can get full-text through our library.

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An Interlibrary Loan is asking another library for a copy of their book or article. It is free to use. Use the link below to find out more information and place an Interlibrary Loan request.