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Catalogs

ConnectNY
Connect NY is a unified catalog of participating academic libraries in New York State designed to allow authorized users of participating libraries to borrow materials from other Connect NY libraries if the books are not owned by their home library or if their library`s copy is already checked-out. Colgate is a member of Connect NY

WorldCat
Coverage varies. A catalog of materials held by libraries worldwide including books, serials, media, and electronic resources.

Articles

Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Anthropological Literature
Coverage: 19th century-present. A bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.

Anthrosource
Coverage: varies. Complete archive of all American Anthropological Association journals; current issues of 11 AAA journals.

eHRAF World Cultures
Coverage: 1997-present. Scholarly journals, books, research reports, and dissertations on anthropology, sociology, ethnology, and culture with an emphasis on non-Western cultures. formerly titled: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).

Journals/Magazines

American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal advances the Association's mission through publishing articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits.

American Ethnologist
American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Articles published in the American Ethnologist elucidate the connections between ethnographic specificity and theoretical originality, and convey the ongoing relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.

Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with theoretical issues, with ethnographic methods and research design in historical perspective, and with ways cultural analysis can address broader public audiences and interests.

Cultural Survival Quarterly

Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics.

Human Organization
Human Organization is the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Its primary objective is the scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and the wide application of these principles to practical problems. The journal regularly includes sections on government and industry, health and medical care, and international affairs. Articles report the application of concepts of social/behavioral science to issues and problems in the contemporary world.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world. It has attracted and inspired some of the world's greatest thinkers. International in scope, it presents accessible papers aimed at a broad anthropological readership. It is also acclaimed for its extensive book review section, and it publishes a bibliography of books received.

Popular

Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Readers` Guide Abstracts
Coverage: 1983-present. Contains indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

Encyclopedias

Countries & Their Cultures
2001 ed. Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.

Encyclopedia of World Cultures
1996 ed. Lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. It is the one of the primary resources for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on most cultures. Additional cultures are covered in the supplement (which is a separate resource)

Newspapers

Custom Newspapers (Gale)
Coverage: varies. Most full-text for 150 newspapers, regional, national and international.
Note: Part of NOVEL

Ethnic NewsWatch
Coverage: 1960-present. A database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.

LexisNexis Academic
Coverage: varies, generally 1980s-- . A multi-disciplinary database, with especially strong news, business and legal material.

Newspaper Source
Coverage: varies. Provides selected full text for national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for some regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Newspapers -- International

Access World News - International Edition
Coverage: varies by title. Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This title does not include U.S. news.

Web Sites

American Anthropological Association
Website of the American Anthropological Association. Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest organization of individuals interested in anthropology. In Richard B. Woodbury's words, ". . .the AAA has remained the central society for the discipline, addressing with considerable success its increasingly varied interests and speaking for anthropology to other fields, the federal and state governments, and the public".

Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival was founded in response to the opening up of the Amazonian and South American hinterlands during the 1960s, and the drastic effects this had on indigenous inhabitants. It has since worked with indigenous communities in Asia, Africa, South America, North America, and Australia, becoming the leading US-based organization defending the rights of indigenous peoples around the world. The organization's website provides access to articles from two publications, Cultural Survival Quarterly and Cultural Voices, as well as news and updates about indigenous communities worldwide.

Survival International
Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. Founded in 1969, the organizations's website provides news about tribal issues as well as educational material/information about tribal peoples worldwide. They believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change, and its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.

Images

AP Images
Coverage: 1840-present. The photo archive for the Associated Press has over 500, 000 images dating from 1844 to the present and covering a wide range of events and locations.

Finding Images from Time and National Geographic

Images Resources on the Web
A list of image resources put together by librarians at Colgate..

Reviews

Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Anthropological Literature
Coverage: 19th century-present. A bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.

Anthrosource
Coverage: varies. Complete archive of all American Anthropological Association journals; current issues of 11 AAA journals.

Book Review Index Online
Coverage: 1965-present. Indexes reviews in journals, general interest magazines, and scholarly journals.

JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).