Anthropology Research at Northeastern University Libraries  

Have some keywords to describe your research topic? Use them in the library catalog, NuCAT, to locate materials.

Get basic information using the Snell Reference collection or the library webpage to locate sources, such as  
       
Encyclopedia Britannica

Historical Statistics of the United States

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Use the Complete A-Z List of Article and Other Databases to find article citations, or the articles.

The Center for Budget and Policy and Policy Priorities is a treasure trove of reports, media and statistics on topics ranging from climate change, federal budget, housing, welfare reform/TANF to social security. Updated frequently with a search box and a browse reports feature.

You could use Google Scholar to search for articles from academic publications. Don't forget to set your Preferences to Northeastern to connect linking to the NU Library collections.

Archives and Special Collections, NU Libraries, collects historically significant records of the University, as well as Documenting Diversity of under-represented communities in Boston.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, research centers other useful links.

NEW! Check the Spring 2013 Library Newsletter for upcoming changes at the University Libraries.

“Lots More E-Books” is a collection of over 50,000 academic titles in ebook format. This is a one year trial; we would like to hear back from users about the content or format.

Using the library catalog,  

                   
To search the collection's full text content, enter through the ebrary Academic Complete link and select the Search tab.

Click the "Search ebrary" button when you've finished describing your search.

Search in Text and Key Fields Text Subject Title Author Publisher Dewey Decimal Number ISBN LC Call Number Publication Year List Price Document Type Document Language Available Licenses Collection for            

For more information, check the E-books and E-book Collections and E-Book Devices webpages.

  
The complete collection from 1999 to the present is now available online! Use MyNEU to access from off-campus. Three ways to use this collection:

• Search All Journals in the collection--one search box for over 560 journals.
• Browse Journals by Title  this option also lets you set up a list of My Favorite Journals!
• Browse Journals by Discipline  the Social Science & Humanities discipine includes Anthropology and Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies. and Family Studies

 New look for Lexis Nexis Academic and a wiki to help users with the new interface.

AnthroSource, a service of the American Anthropological Associastion, provides access to AAA's diverse portfolio of 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters

Pivot: Funding Connected  is a database for locating funds for grants, fellowships, prizes and other types of funding from the public and private sector, including governments, foundations, and corporations

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a subset of the Web of Knowledge. After setting the search to SSCI, use the Cited reference searching to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.

GN1-890 Anthropology

AAA (Amercan Anthropological Association) Style Guide may be downloaded from this link.

AAA uses The Chicago Manual of Style ) if citation style is not covered in the AAA Style Guide.
There also a brief web guide to Chicago Manual of Style Online

Snell Library Reference collection includes the latest Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, 2010) in print and online