Tutt Library

AN102: Cultural Anthropology

Intro to biological and cultural anthropology syllabus

“Your grade will consider writing, improvement, use of sources, “
So this page will help outline those resources available to you.

Finding Books

• TIGER first
• Prospector next – faster (3-4 days avg.)
• Worldcat – what you can’t find above, US and International libraries

Articles

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Databases

Academic Search Premier

Coverage: 1988 - current

Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Specialized for your field

Anthropological Literature

Coverage: Late 19th century - current

Indexes articles from approximately 900 journals in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.

AnthroSource

Coverage: 1888 -

AnthroSource is an online resource for core journals in the field of anthropology, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). One may access complete archives of all AAA journals and current issues of 11 of the AAA's most popular journals, including American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist.

Subject Database links

Anthropology

Biology

Environmental Studies

Special note

Google Scholar

Coverage: N/A

Retrieves citations to a wide variety of research papers, thesis, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Check for possible full text by using Colorado College Links or Colorado College e-texts buttons next to the citations.

Pawprints

• use when the fulltext isn’t right there
• for citations – which databases has the journal
• Journal Finder

ILLIAD

• Interlibrary loan software
• how Tutt handles requests (except Prospector)
• ILLIAD

Online

About search engines
I found it on the web

US Government Search

Other

Interviews with last year’s thesis students