Note: While the databases and other resources listed below will be helpful for anthropological research, other important indexes and guides to the literature of anthropology are available only within the Vanderbilt libraries.

• ACORN
     The Heard Libraries' online catalog. [Available to all users]

• Anthropology Plus*
  Principal index to articles, essays and other publications in anthropology, archaeology and related subjects. It is derived from the periodicals and books owned by the Tozzer Library of Harvard University and the Royal Anthropological Institute.. Includes works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present. Selective coverage of art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. [V.U. users only]
  
  
• AnthroSource*
  Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource is a searchable archive of all AAA journals, with access to current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications. Newsletters and bulletins are included. Full citations and seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR are provided. Registered individual users can take advantage of personalization options, such as saved searches and email alerts. [V.U. users only]
  

• Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA)[currently available free of charge]
    Produced by the JP Getty Institute. "Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work."
  
  
• BAESL: Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant (Weber State University)
  

• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography*
     "The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a full-text cultural database that contains culture files and full-text documents including books, journal articles, and dissertations. eHRAF is unique in that the text is subject-indexed for quick retrieval of information." [V.U. users only]
  • eHRAF User Guides
    Includes search strategy tips, a tutorial, a glossary and more.
    
    
• eHRAF Collection of Archaeology*
     "The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is a full-text database with information on archaeological traditions and full-text documents including books, journal articles, and dissertations. eHRAF is unique in that the text is subject-indexed for quick retrieval of information." [V.U. users only]
  • eHRAF User Guides
    Includes search strategy tips, a tutorial, a glossary and more.
    

• Cross-cultural CD
     Acollection of ethnographic and other full text files--from books, periodicals and manuscripts--offering "descriptions of life in societies around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries." Provides information extracted from the much larger and more comprehensive Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) on sixty selected societies. Includes the following separate databases: Human Sexuality, Family, Crime and Social Problems, Old Age, Death and Dying, Childhood and Adolescence, Socialization and Education, Religious Beliefs and Practices. [V.U. users only]
  
  
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
  Provides access to resources for social science and interdisciplinary research. "IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing." [V.U. users only]
  

• JSTOR
    Full text coverage of journal issues beginning with the first issue of each journal and usually ending within five years of the present. Recently published issues are not available. Several anthropology journals are included. [V.U. users only]

• National Archaeological Database
    indexes over 120,000 archaeological investigations 

Latin America

• Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
    provides keyword searching of table of contents for many Latin American journals (freely accessible via the Internet) and expedited delivery of articles not held at Vanderbilt (free to V.U. users only).

• Bibliografia Mesoamericana *
    an extensive bibliography on Mesoamerican topics.
  
  
• CLASE
    Citas latinoamericanas -- indexes many Latin American and Mexican periodicals in the social sciences (click on Catálogos en línea).
  

• HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) *
    the principal index to journal articles published throughout the world on Latin America from 1970 to the present

• Handbook of Latin American Studies *
    the principal bibliography of books and articles about Latin America--covers 1935 to the present
  
  
• LANIC
    the principal source for access to Latin America on the Internet--arranged by country and subject
  
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