If you want to know if W&L has access to a particular journal article, you can use the Journal Search option the library homepage. Enter the title of the journal or magazine you are looking for.
Be sure to take note of the limited years of coverage (if any) for each option.
Article databases which should be useful for research in this class are listed in the box beneath this one.
However, to make this remote-access process simpler, you have access to a combined search of all these databases, already focused on the project's subject matter. Click on this link:
This will generate a list of 29,000+ citations on the above topic, with a results screen looking like the image below. What you need to do next is narrow the search to the geographical region or cultural group you are researching. Do this by entering your term(s) .on the second search line, the one with the yellow streak in the image below.
Example: enter the word oaxaca on the second search line, And then click the "Search" button"
A suggestion: Place an asterisk (*) at the end of the name of the region/group, in order to search for all forms of that word. Example: harappa*
Important note: Not all articles will be available to us at W&L. Sometimes, clicking on the "Find the Full Text" button beneath the citation will take you to a source for the articl. Sometimes it will not. If you have a question, please e-mail Professor Grefe.
Excellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
A combination of Harvard's Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute. It covers hundreds of anthropology and archaeology journals and other relevant scholarly sources, including essays and chapters from edited books, with significant full-text provision.
Comprehensive coverage of sociology and its sub-disciplines, with very good coverage of related areas of study, especially politics. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. It is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) covering both economic theory and application, and indexes journal articles, working papers, books, articles (chapters) in collective works, and dissertations.