Articles & Journals
Articles are generally published in academic journals. They provide the latest research and focused examinations of specific topics. Because they are published more quickly and more frequently than books you will usually find the most recent works on a topic in the forms of articles.
Scholarly articles will always have citations to the author's sources in the form of footnotes, end notes, or a bibliography (or a combination of these). Peer reviewed articles are scholarly articles that were reviewed by experts in a field before being selected for publication.
Below, you'll find information to find articles relevant to your topic in library databases, as well as recommendations for journals in the discipline.
Best Places to Start
UCSB Library subscribes to hundreds of research databases, which are excellent tools to use for finding scholarly articles. Below is a selection of recommended databases for research in Anthropology, many of which contain the full text of articles. If you do not see a link to the full text, use the 
link to find a different access point or to order a copy through Interlibrary Loan.
The complete list of databases, including descriptions, is here: A-Z list of databases
Recommended Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database covering thousands of journals and other publications. Includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, and indexing/abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes full text of journals and books in a wide range of subject areas. Also includes high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more (including those from Artstor).
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides access to essential humanities and social science research. Hosts journals and books from leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. Note that UCSB does not subscribe to all of the journals or books on the Project Muse platform; items whose full text is accessible are denoted by a green check mark.
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowWiley Online Library contains reference sources, books, and articles on specific topics in anthropology and archaeology.
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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Combines Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute, UK). Provides extensive worldwide indexing of publications in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
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AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text anthropological resources from the publications of the American Anthropological Association. Contains more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs covering a range of fields in anthropology.
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Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) World Cultures This link opens in a new window
Compilation of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject, from 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations. Information is indexed by culture and subject.
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Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology This link opens in a new window
Provides expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information readily available to them. Facilitates research by providing direct links to online library catalogs and other online resources.
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts for millions of articles in medicine, life science, and health administration. Especially helpful for medical anthropology.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers thousands of research journals, and extensive collections of conference proceedings and books across hundreds of disciplines.
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Dyabola This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly journals and collected works on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology.
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FRANCIS This link opens in a new windowAn index to 3,000 journals across major scholarly disciplines. Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. (1972-2015) Francis is no longer being updated.
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GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Provides citations from journals, serials, maps, theses and dissertations, government publications, books, and reports in the fields of geology and geophysics. Topics include energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, nuclear reactor sites, landslides, and erosion, as well as the history of the earth, the structure of the earth, the study of ore deposits, and geostatistics.
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Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) Archaeology This link opens in a new windowThe eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is modeled after the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. It provides researchers and students access to archaeological materials for comparative studies within and across regions. Annual installments cover eight or more major archaeological/cultural traditions from around the world with at least 10,000 pages indexed according to a modified Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) for quick retrieval of information. Each major tradition typically contains an overview by an expert and descriptive materials on 5 to 7 sites. HRAF indexes the information in its collection of ethnography by culture and subject.
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Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) World Cultures This link opens in a new windowThe Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) are a compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject, from 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations. HRAF indexes the information in its collection of ethnography by culture and subject. OWC is an acronym for the Outline of World Cultures, a systematic listing of the cultures of the world; an OWC code, or OWC number, is a culture identification code.
Materials Indexed: Books; Journal Articles; Primary Sources; Theses & Dissertations
A-Z Database List
View a full list of databases provided through the UCSB Library.
Browse Journals
Important Journals in Anthropology
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Annual Review of AnthropologyThis review highlights key literature on broad topics like cognitive anthropology, the anthropology of money, or social networks. Start here to build a good literature review.
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Reviews in Anthropologycommentary and review of new books in anthropology, including biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology.