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Anthropology Databases

AnthroSource (American Anthropological Association)

AnthroSource offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge across the discipline.

eHRAF World Cultures

This database contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life.

JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)

JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Life Sciences collection. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.

Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Provides digital humanities and social sciences content in full text, as well as, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Multidiscplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

America: History and Life
This database indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Dated back to 1910.
GenderWatch (ProQuest)

Repository of historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, transgendered community and changes in gender roles over time. Includes journals, magazines, newspapers, regional publications,and NGO, and government reports.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, the database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.

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Research Collection

CC    Archaeology

        CC    72 - 81    Philosophy, theory, methodology

        CC    135 - 137    Preservation, restoration, conservation

CN    Inscriptions, epigraphy

GF    Human ecology, anthropogeography

        GF    51    Environmental influences on humans

        GF    75    Human influences on the environment

GN    Anthropology

        GN    49 - 298    Physical anthropology

            GN    296 - 296.5    Medical anthropology

        GN    301 - 674    Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology

            GN    397 - 397.7    Applied anthropology

            GN    406 - 442    Cultural traits, customs, institutions

GN    Anthropology

        GN    301 - 674    Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology

            GN    537 - 674    Ethnic groups and races

        GN    700 - 890    Prehistoric archaeology

GR    Folklore

        GR    72 - 79    Folk literature (general)

        GR    99.6 - 390    By region or country

        GR    420 - 950    By subject

GT    Manners and Customs

P       Philology, linguistics

        P    1 - 85    General

        P    101 - 410    Language, linguistic theory

Print Government Information

Physical government documents are shelved using the SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) Classification Scheme.

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AE          National Archives and Records Administration           

LC           Library of Congress

I               Interior Department

ID            US Agency for International Development

SI            Smithsonian Institution

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Online Archives

ArchiveGrid (OCLC)

ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

National Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Collections and Archives
The diverse collections of the Department of Anthropology are an unparalleled resource containing historical and contemporary materials that document the world's cultures and history of anthropology.

Online Ethnographies

Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
The Anthropological Papers, published continuously since 1907, are monographic volumes that include some of the great ethnographies of the 20th century, particularly on North American Indians.
EVIA Digital Archive Project
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.

Online Image Collections

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Image Database
The Image Database includes photographs from original excavations and personal collections, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections.
WPA/TVA Archaeological Photographs
Online database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s.

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Last updated: 8/19/2016