Human Evolution

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Finding Articles: Databases & Indexes

SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES

See a list of all databases at via the Library Homepage  --  Articles A-Z (in the Find box).

Specialized Databases

Anthropology Plus
Index to articles and essays in anthropological journals and books, from the late 19th century to the present, as maintained by the Tozzer Library of Harvard University and the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography.

GEOBASE
Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings and reports from worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and paleontology. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.

PrimateLit
Provides access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage: 1940 to present. Features indexing for articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc., covering subject areas including: behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography.

PubMed
Searches Medline which is an index of medical journals sponsored by the National Library of Medicine dating back to 1966.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
 Large and diverse database that covers most academic disciplines, including Anthropology, Biology and Zoology. Contains both scholarly and non-academic resources.

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content-indexing, abstracts, and full text-from six of Wilson's full-text databases, including Social Sciences Abstracts. Also covers biology, paleontology, zoology and anthropology.

JSTOR
Searchable collections of full-text journals. JSTOR contains many significant journals in the field of Anthropology.

GETTING THE ARTICLES

  1. When searching for articles, you may find the full-text of an article linked in the database.

  2. If not, you need to search the Trexler Library Catalog to see if we own the journal in which the article is published.
    • Most databases have a Get It link embedded. Click the link to check our holdings.
    • Otherwise, search the catalog by journal title. Verify that we have online, print, or microform access to the year/volume you need.
  3. If we do not own the journal you need, request the article via Interlibrary Loan.
    • Some databases have a Request on Interlibrary Loan link embedded. Click the link to fill out the form. Click Submit.
    • Otherwise, use the Interlibrary Loan Journal Article Request Form (Library Homepage  --  ILL (in the Services & Forms box)  --  Articles request form). Fill out the form with as much information as possible. Ask for help, if you have questions.

Citing Your Sources

The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Reference Desk Reserve 808.027 C632m (at Reference Desk)

Trexler Library handout on using Chicago style: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/chicago_example.pdf
This and other style guide handouts available from the library website.  Library Homepage --  Citation Guides (in the Research Help box).

Writer's Handbook (Writing Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison)
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

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Last modified: 7 November 2007