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Library essentials for staff and students 2020-21

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Library essentials for staff and students 2020-21

Welcome to your Anthropology subject guide

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.

Use the menu on the left to find out what is available, including key information on:

Please get in touch through the help channels to the right of this page if you have any enquiries!

Subject Collections

Key electronic resources in your subject area:

Abstracts in Anthropology
An eJournal that indexes articles on a broad range of significant, current anthropological topics. Can be searched by keyword, or browsed by topic area.
Africa Bibliography
The online version of Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.
Anthropological Index Online
Offering access to hundreds of journals in the British Museums Anthropology Library, this resource is an essential periodical index covering the fields of physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography and linguistics.
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
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.
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
Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. No longer supports IE7 or earlier versions. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Web of Science Core Collection
A multidisciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources.

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Library essentials for staff and students 2020-21

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