Scholarly literature review essays on a wide array of topics, all with extensive bibliographies.
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Indexes articles from over 750 journals "in all areas of anthropology and archaeology," from the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly Museum of Mankind). The data is (c) RAI and use is permitted for educational non-commercial purposes (including private study).
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An electronic archive of all AAA journals including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. See the full list of journals covered at http://www.anthrosource.net/Journals.aspx.
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Published reviews as well as citations to reviews published elsewhere.
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JSTOR offers access to archival (i.e. older than 3 or more years ago) peer reviewed journals. Journals represented include those from relevant disciplines such as African American Studies, African Studies, American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Feminist & Women's Studies, Film Studies,
Folklore, Health Policy, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, Music, Paleontology, Performing Arts, Population Studies, Religion, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Zoology.
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A broad, multi-disciplinary database, ASP contains both scholarly and popular sources related to anthropology.
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This database for articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present includes archaeology.
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A collection of several databases including Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, MEDLINE, Plant Science, and TOXLINE. The databases cite works in over 24 areas of biology including biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, zoology, and some agriculture and veterinary science.
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This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
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More than 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975, illustrate the evolution of what it means to "be black." Includes the only full run of The Black Panther - the party's newspaper - and 2,500 pages of oral history interviews recorded by the former Black Panther, David Hilliard. Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.
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This resource explores the dimensions of human well-being through a combination of maps, datasets, resources, and short articles on the linkages between poverty and the environment. It is part of the EarthTrends environmental information collection at the World Resources Institute.
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This database for articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life) includes archaeology.
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A tool for identifying which Brooklyn College-owned journals are available in an electronic format.
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Source of news on the African American community. Links include archives to previous weeks of news, a clickable timeline of black media history, submitted letters of concerns and essays and other resources.
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. With InfoTrac Newsstand, libraries are provided with a collection of more than 120 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world plus an additional 280 sources of selected news and business coverage.
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Since 1967, Latin American Newsletters (LAN) has been a source of intelligence on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The source for news from a wide variety of print, online and broadcast sources. LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
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National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
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Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
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Via Lexis-Nexis. Printing "All the News That's Fit to Print," The New York Times bears the reputation of being the United States' unofficial newspaper of record.Comprehensive coverage of national, foreign, business and local news comes fromThe From Lexis-Nexis. Times' extensive foreign news network and bureaus around the United States.The LEXIS-NEXIS services carry the final city edition.
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The New York Times (1851 - 2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Free registration required.
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The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
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This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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Encyclopędia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopędia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopędia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
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For comprehensive book review searches, be sure to check article databases as well.
Published reviews as well as citations to reviews published elsewhere.
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Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes.
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Brief descriptions of anthropologists and other scientists who have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
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Brief biographies of many women, from the 10th century to the present.
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Latest data on more than 200 countries - includes maps
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Infoshare Online is population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more. All data files are obtained from City, State, and Federal government agencies.
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Detailed data on educational attainment, training, school enrollment etc.
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An online dictionary of slang from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.
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Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, used for all AAA publications.
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The citation style used for history and other disciplines including Anthropology.
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Online Costuming Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers
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This guide will help you use journal indexes available at the Brooklyn College Library to find published articles on your subject of interest.
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Reference links from the Librarians' Internet Index.
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The citation style for the social sciences.
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Links to a variety of reference resources selected by Brooklyn College librarians.
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RefWorks is powerful bibliographic management software which allows users to create personal databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases. The databases can then be used to manage, store, and share the information. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds.
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Online collection of fabulous links to anthro resources.
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The courses of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology present the richness in human variation and cultural diversity, and transmit the anthropological and archaeological perspective as a way of thinking, a way of problem solving, and as a model for future learning. For many students, anthropology becomes a framework for integrating knowledge and a system of organization for their formal education.
Anthropology is the study of people, how they developed physically and culturally, and how they live and interact among themselves and with others. Anthropology is a four field apprach that includes cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology and linguistics.
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Links to full-text CSAC research projects; seven currentlylisted, among them Paul Stirling's 45 years in the Turkish Village. Documents include figures, plates, tables, maps, fieldnotes and systematic data. Updates may be one to two years old. Also links to CSAC Resources for Anthropologists including a CSAC publications list of the CSAC monographic series (full-text available online) and the Southeast Asian Studies Occasional Paper Series (ordering information included). Resources also include links to a CSAC bibliography, book and software reviews, anthropology exhibits on the Web, and seminar schedules. Separate sections with links to other Web sites and sources.
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The AAA has been the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902. Provides information about anthropology and anthropologists, and includes many links to resources.
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The AAPA, the world's leading professional organization for physical anthropologists,has an international membership of over 1,700. The Association's annual meetings draw more than a thousand scientists and students from all over the world.
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Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published. There are also over 200 ancillary texts, from reference works, reviews, obituaries, biographies and more.
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An excellent starting point, from the WWW Virtual Library, allows browsing by region, topic, research resource, or institution.
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CCR has expanded its editorial focus to include peer-reviewed articles that describe cross-cultural and comparative studies in all human sciences. Each issue of Cross-Cultural Research examines topics that span societies, nations and cultures, providing strategies for the systematic testing of theories about human society and behaviour. Research reports, review articles, methodological studies, bibliographies and discussion pieces offer you a wealth of information on cross-cultural issues, providing the global perspective you need to form clear and accurate conclusions from your own studies.
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From Brian Schwimmer, Department of Anthropology University of Manitoba, 1995
This illustrated online tutorial includes sections on kin fundamentals, systems of descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, residence rules, ethnographic examples. Most links are to Schwimmer's own text; some are to outside Web sites. Each section is retrieved in smaller parts to allow faster document transfer. A somewhat linear presentation.
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"A Collection of Resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife"
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Offers articles, calendars of events and musuem directory. Brooklyn College Library does not currently have a subscription - some issues available free online.
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Through exploration of food history and heritage this site offers diverse temporary exhibits on food education programs, book reviews, blogs and more.
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Scholarly and non-scholarly articles about food and culture. Some full text. Brooklyn College Library does not currently have a subscription - some issues available free online.
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The online version of the NYT Wednesday section Dining In/Dining Out dealing with food and culture in New York and beyond. For past issues please search either via TimesSelect or LexisNexis.
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This is a journal of food studies and food history that has appeared in books, articles, notes and queries from readers, and reviews of books published in the field. Brooklyn College Library does not currently have a subscription. Selected articles available free online.
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A non-profit organization supported by memebers to counteract the modern fast food lifestyle that has been taking over local food traditions.
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Through documentation this site explores different cultural aspects and studies the American southern culture.
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This site offers the "truth" behind unsafe food practices. Articles and updated resources are available to protect food safety and strengthen govermental oversight.
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A select list of Web sites, each with a brief annotation, is a sample of what the Internet holds for teachers and students interested in the field of anthropology.
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