UVa Library's Resources for ANTH109B

Library Databases and Searching

Introduction by Philip McEldowney
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Anthropological Literature 1890+ (VIRGO). Indexes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages. Updated quarterly.

Anthropological Literature 1890+ (Web). Indexes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages. Updated quarterly.

Bibliography of Native North Americans (WebSPIRS). Contains citations to literature about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) and the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Includes book reviews.

Contemporary Women's Issues (VIRGO) 1992+. International coverage on issues relating to women within the disciplines of sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Includes book reviews. Updated every two weeks.

Contemporary Women's Issues (Web) 1992+. International coverage on issues relating to women within the disciplines of sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Includes book reviews. Updated every two weeks

Ethnic NewsWatch 1985+ (Web browsers only). Full-text of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from 200 ethnic, minority, and native publications in the U.S. Available in English and Spanish. Updated monthly.

Infotrac Web (Web). Requires Netscape 4.0/IE4.0. Use version for older web browsers until 11/99. The five Infotrac Web databases (Expanded Academic ASAP, Books in Print, General BusinessFile ASAP, Computer Database, Health Reference Center) provide indexing with abstracts for over 2700 journals and full text of articles for 1200 of those journals. Includes book reviews.

LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe (Web browsers only). Up-to-the-minute news from sources around the world; information on companies, industries, markets, government and politics; legal news, country profiles; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily. View Alphabetical Contents List and Help Sheets.

WorldCat (VIRGO) Includes over 30 million catalog records and holdings from over 12,000 libraries worldwide, including UVA. Materials in all formats.

WorldCat (Web). Includes over 30 million catalog records and holdings from over 12,000 libraries worldwide, including UVA. Materials in all formats.

Basic Information resources and databases

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Web browsers only). Fully searchable and browsable encyclopedia, also including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition).

Facts On File (Web). A current events research database (called FACTS.com) offering detailed distillation of information about events, issues, and people who have made news during the past 20 years. Coverage begins 1980 with overviews of key historic events from 1940. Updated weekly.

Introduction

[Session: 4 Nov 1999, Alderman Library, 2:00-3:15 pm]

80-90% of all that you need for the papers are available through the "Sources for Second Section." Use that for almost all things. This is just a supplement to that, to show some Library sources.

Most information today is still only available in print. More and more is coming out online, but not yet.

Two types of online information, but mainly cover only the last 10 years:

Indexes - of books and articles
Full-text - some.

Basic facts or information - Encyclopedia and Facts on File

General News - full text from Lexis/Nexis, and from Ethnic NewsWatch, and some in InfoTrack.

Indexes

for books - our online catalog (VIRGO), WorldCat
for articles in specialized indexes - Anthropological Literature, Contemporary Women's Issues, and Bibliography of Native North Americans.

Search Tips - Try it! Learn! Try it again! Don't give up!

That is, try any search, using a term or word which is close to what you want. Then, learn what are the ways and words which that particular database uses. See what is the symbol for truncation. See what words they use, by looking at a specific record, clicking on any underlined links, etc. Then, try it again, and again, using what you've learned. Don't give up.
And ask at the Alderman desk.

Search VIRGO, AnthLit, Bibli of NA, InfoTrac, Lexis/Nexis, ContWo, EthNewsW

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