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Select at least one subject or multidisciplinary database related to your topic.
- Perform a search using different combinations of keywords you identified when exploring your topic.
- Limit your results to Scholarly or Peer Reviewed articles.
- Note SUBJECT TERMS listed in articles of interest. Consider adding those into your search.
- Scan the ABSTRACT to see if this article is relevant for your topic.
- Use the CITE tool on the source page to save citations of sources you want to explore further.
- Download the PDF of the articles you want to read.
Search in DELCAT for books and articles on your topic
- Use the CITE button to save the citation for sources you want to explore further.
- Use the SHARE button to save a link to the catalog record so you can get back to it quickly.
TIP: The easiest way to get back to articles you didn't download but have the citation for is to paste just the title into the DELCAT search box. You can then download the article or use the SHARE button to save a stable link to get back to it.
Subject & Multidisciplinary Databases
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowProvides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. It offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in anthropology as well as local and lesser-known journals.
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowIncludes current issues for 15 of the American Anthropological Association’s most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Included are peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, and academic monographs. JSTOR includes material in more than 75 disciplines including area studies, the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowAmerica: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProvides global news content from 2,500+ news sources, 1980s to present. Coverage varies by title.