Library guides and databases: Anthropology: Welcome

Welcome to your Anthropology subject guide

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This guide has been put together by the Anthropology Subject Librarian and is relevant to all students in the Department of Anthropology. You will find here an overview of the library resources and support available to you to help you in your studies or research.

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Subject Collections

Key electronic resources in your subject area:

Anthropology Online
Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.
Anthropology Plus
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Including the indexing from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index Online, Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of core and lesser known journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
BFI Player
Access for UCL students and staff only. To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps:
1. Go to BFI Player and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'
2. Select University College London from the dropdown list
3. Login using your UCL username and password.
Once you've set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year; BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK; it is to be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only and access is limited to the subscription content
eHRAF World Cultures
An online cross-cultural and ethnographic database containing descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by cultures and ethnic groups, and every document is subject-indexed at the paragraph level, facilitating precise retrieval within documents.
Ethnographic Video Online
Classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent in the form of films. UCL has access to Vols. I and II: Foundational Films and Vol. III: Indigenous Voices.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
Index of literature in the social sciences and related subjects.

International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
A complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that together define the discipline
International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
A key reference resource for anyone studying linguistic anthropology, communication studies, education, psychology, and sociology.

JSTOR
An archive that contains the full-text of many classic journals, some as far back as the nineteenth century.
Kanopy
Best streamed on Chrome, Safari, or Edge. Providing video streaming to over 26,000 films including thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases. The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, BBC and hundreds more. Accessibility statement for Kanopy.
Oxford Bibliographies
A guide to books, journal articles and other resources. UCL has access to the Anthropology subject within this resource. Click on the subject 'Anthropology' to find relevant information.
SCOPUS
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources.

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