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Anthropology and Archaeology

Late Geometric Ib bowl, Attica, Greece  (probable prev. owner: 7th Earl of Elgin) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, The British Museum, UK.

Articles and databases

Learn where to find journal articles on the library webpage, and how to discover these on databases.

Find articles on Library Search

  • Use Library Search to read journal articles online if you know their title and / or author names.
  • Use Find an eJournal, the library's A to Z of digital journals, to see which journals we hold online.

Key databases 

These databases cover social anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology and archaeology. They include ethnography, fieldwork, cultural heritage, conservation, museum and material culture studies. 

 

Databases for related disciplines

For topics with a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary reach,  you may need to search databases from related disciplines: biology, medicine, psychology, economics, policy studies, sociology. 

If you need help on which databases to use for your research, please do get in touch!

 

Other useful databases

 

Free online eJournal databases

 

 

Why use academic databases?

Use academic databases if you want to do a quick and thorough search for a topic across many digital journals and booksThey will allow you to do a more in-depth and focused search compared with Library Search or Google Scholar.

 

Tips on using databases

Some databases include full-text versions of articles and others only have bibliographic details. When the full text is not available, try the Get It @Bristol Univ button to see if there is a link to the full text in the library.

Subject-specific database like Anthropology Plus and AnthroSource, cover the most current and comprehensive bibliographies of research in anthropology and archaeology journals.

Multi-disciplinary databases, like Web of Science, are excellent for finding anthropology and archaeology materials, including those that intersect with other disciplines and areas in science, social sciences, arts and the humanities. 

Database research tutorial

Effective research with databases

A self-help tutorial on effective research with databases.

Web of Science: search tips