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Electronic Databases

Subject Specific Databases:

Anthropological Literature
Bibliography of articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies going back to the 19th century.
 
Ethnic News Watch
Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
 
 
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliographic contains citations from 1935 to the present on all cultural, social and historical Latin American Topics.
 
 
LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973-present)
Provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide; citations to dissertations, books and book reviews are included.
 
 

General or Related Databases:

America History and Life
Bibliographic citations on U.S. and Canadian history, covering over 2000 journals and indexing and abstracting articles since 1964. Select references to books, media and dissertations are also included. Book reviews in the journals are indexed.
 
 
Article First
Indexes complied from the tables of contents from 12,500 journals 1990 to the present.
 
 
Arts and Humanities Search
Index to titles of articles in archaeology, architecture, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and linguistics, literature, music, Performance Art, philosophy, theater, theology and religious studies.
 
 
EBSCOhost
A collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text.
 
 
GeoRef/S
Over 2 million bibliographic citations to all fields of geology and paleontology from 1785 (in North America) to the present. Many citations are relevant to archaeology.
 
 
WorldCat
Union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world containing over 41 million records of books, journals, manuscripts, videos, music scores and recordings.
 

Electronic Journals

Electronic journals are available through many of the databases listed above.  They can also be found by searching the UM library catalog. Check Journal Finder for a list of electronic journals.

Print Materials

Subject Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
[Reference] DT351 .E53 1997 catalog record
 
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World
[Reference] GN495.4 .E53 1993 catalog record
 
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
[Reference] DS805 .K633 1983 catalog record
 

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Anthropology
[Reference] GN11 .D48 1986 catalog record
 
Facts on File Dictionary of Archaeology
[Reference] CC70 .F32 1984 catalog record
 
Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary of Folklore
[Reference] GR35 .F82 catalog record
 

Handbooks and Guides

Handbook of North American Indians
[Government Documents] SI 1.20/2: catalog record
[Main Library] E77 .H25
 
Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
[Main Library] E77 .N62 1996 catalog record
 
Ethnic Groups Worldwide
[Reference] GN325 .L46 1998 catalog record
 

Internet Resources

Africa: South of the Sahara

African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania

Asia-Pacific Network

Geographic Information Systems

Latin America Network Information Center

Native American Sites on the Web

Useful Archaeology Links

 

Your Subject Librarian:

Royce Kurtz
ulkurtz@olemiss.edu
915-7985

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