Primary Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

Abstracts in Anthropology
- from Sage (former Baywood titles)
Indexes journals in cultural and physical anthropology, as well as linguistics and archaeology. ...   [more]

Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
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Anthropology PLUS
Also Known as: Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature
Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition...   [more]
Holdings: Anthropological Index: 1957-present. Anthropological Literature: Early 19th century to present

AnthroSource
Indexes journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)....   [more]

Primary Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

SAGE Research Methods
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Important Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Also Known as: Art and Archaeology Technology Abstracts, Technical Studies in Art and Archaeology
Abstracts of material cultural heritage management and conservation literature worldwide. Topics include methods of examination and analysis, conservation including architectural conservation, archaeo...   [more]
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ABIA - Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Also Known as: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index, Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Bibliographic citations for scholarly publications in South Asian and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. Subjects covered include prehistory and protohistory, historical archaeology, ancient art his...   [more]
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Academic Video Online
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All The World's Primates
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American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
- from Archives Unbound
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American Indian Law Collection
Also Known as: HeinOnline's American Indian law collection , HeinOnline American Indian law collection
- from HeinOnline
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APIS - Advanced Papyrological Information System
APIS, the Advanced Papyrological Information System, is a consortium of American universities intending to bring their papyrus collections online The databases being compiled at each university conta...   [more]
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Archaeology Data Service -- British Archaeological holdings Search System
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoti...   [more]
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Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Digital archive of recordings and texts in more than 130 indigenous languages of Latin America and scholarship on those languages. AILLA provides audio recordings and trans...   [more]
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Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Created by the Center of the History of Collecting in America, the directory is intended to help researchers locate primary source material about American collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, an...   [more]
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Art, Antiquity and Law
Fulltext for the journal and for books...   [more]

biab : The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography
Also Known as: British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
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Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Also Known as: BAS online archive
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Bibliografia Mesoamericana
The purpose of Bibliografia Mesoamericana is to provide comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the published literature pertaining to Mesoamerica, including archaeology, art history, ethnography, eth...   [more]

Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

Bibliography of Dendrochronology
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research...   [more]
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
Also Known as: bnna
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Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving
The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European la...   [more]
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CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-present.
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    CAB Thesaurus

Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Also Known as: CMS I, CMS II
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DONUM - Database of Numismatic Materials
Also Known as: Numismatic Literature
The catalog of the American Numismatic Society Library. Includes records from American Numismatic Society's Numismatic Literature, the comprehensive bibliography of research on coins and coinage....   [more]
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Dyabola Project
Also Known as: Dyabola Literature Database, Archdologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs), Datenbank der attischen Grabreliefs des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Fr, hgeschichte Europas (RGK), 1992-2006,Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts, Projekt Dyabola
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E-corpus
e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc. This diverse platform present...   [more]
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Eastern Woodlands Household Archaeology Data Project
Information about prehistoric residential structures in eastern North America....   [more]
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eHRAF Archaeology
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Modeled after HRAFs Collection of Ethnography, the Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies. Includes general and topical descriptions for a...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
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eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
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    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
    Overview and User Tips (obsolete)

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Also Known as: European Americana
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Filmakers Library Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library is a multidisciplinary collection of over 1,400 documentaries made from 1974 to the present by independent filmmakers from around the world that can now be streamed over computer. Th...   [more]

Food Culture Around the World (book series)
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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Guide to Native American Pottery of South Carolina
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History of Afghanistan Online
Also Known as: HAO
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
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Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie & Company
Also Known as: Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company
- from Archives Unbound
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Indigenous Peoples: North America
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
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    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

International Tree-Ring Data Bank
The International Tree-Ring Data Bank is maintained by the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology. The Data Bank includes raw ring width or wood density measurements,...   [more]
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Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) 1957-1994
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Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society - Author Index
This site provides an alphabetized list of authors and full-text links to their contributions to the "Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society."...   [more]
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Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World
A collection of Latin texts and photos of archaeological sites focused on Rome. Includes digitized reference sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ...   [more]
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences Covers all aspects of the study of language including linguistics, language acquisi...   [more]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
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    Serials List
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    LLBA Classification Codes

Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers Project
- from Archives Unbound
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Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present, MED consists of a relational database...   [more]
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Mnemotrix ArchaeoSearch - Database of Ancient Near East and Classical Studies
Working with Dr. Aren Maeir of the Institute of Archaeology at Bar Ilan University in Israel, we have compiled a resource application database for archaeologists working in the field of Ancient Near E...   [more]
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Nestor - Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
An international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields, from the Paleolithic through the end of the Geometric period, covering the Aegean, incl...   [more]
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New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Also Known as: New World Cinema
- from Alexander Street Press
200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors, and 50+ award-winning shorts. Detailed title-level indexing allows viewers immediately to identify films with social, cultural, or ...   [more]

OLAC Language Resource Catalog
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Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)
Also Known as: AEB Online, Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Published by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, this international index of books and articles covering Egyptological liter...   [more]

Open Context
Archaeological data repository. Produced by Alexandria Archive Institute....   [more]
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Paleoindian Database of the Americas
Provides locational, attribute, and image data on Paleoindian materials (>ca. 10,000 cal yr BP) from all across the Americas. Expanded from the North American Paleoindian Projectile Point Database....   [more]
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PEP-Web Archive
Also Known as: PEP web archive
Searchable fulltext of Freud's complete works (German and English), books by Bion, Bowlby, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Donald Meltzer, D.W. Winnicott and other psychoanalysts. Includes compete runs (...   [more]

PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]
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Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals
- from Archives Unbound
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Race Relations Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.

Registry of Anthropological Data Wiki
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Roman Provincial Coinage Online
Database describing Antonine period (AD 138-192) Roman provincial coinage, based upon holdings of major coin cabinets. Searchable by coin type imagery, mint city, minting date, magistrate and other na...   [more]
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Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs & Expositions: Visions Of Tomorrow
Also Known as: Worlds fairs, World's Fair, Smithsonian Collections Online
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Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (WOK Web of Science)
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliographic Database
Maintained by the Ban Chiang Project iseaarchaeology.org/the-ban-chiang-project/ and the Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology iseaarchaeology.org/, this specialist bibliography has been online si...   [more]
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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Also Known as: Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
- from Taylor & Francis Online
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum - SEG
The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. It presents complete Greek texts of all new insc...   [more]

tDAR - Digital Archaeological Record
Archaeological data repository....   [more]
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The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Also Known as: War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
- from Archives Unbound
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TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
Provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. Over 23,000 articles are presently listed in the database, as well as a selection of anthologie...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present comprehensively. Pre-1992 selectively.
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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
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ZENON DAI : Deutsches Archaologisches Institut catalog
Zenon represents freely available digital access to the complete inventory of the Romisch-Germanischen-Kommission (RGK) . Zenon includes digitized journals, ebooks, databases from the RGK collections ...   [more]
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Related Anthropology & Archaeology Databases & Article Indexes

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
Also Known as: art retrospective
Art. Coverage includes materials in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed materials are included....   [more]
Holdings: 1929-1984

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English. Includes materials published...   [more]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
- from CSA Databases
Covers European and American art from the fourth century C.E. to 2007. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to 2007
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CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    CABICODES List
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CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
CLASE is a social sciences and humanities database created in 1975 at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). It contains more than 200,000 citations to articles, essays, book reviews, sta...   [more]
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CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]

Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
Conservation and restoration of cultural property...   [more]
Holdings: 1932-
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean c...   [more]
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EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

International Bibliography of Art
Also Known as: IBA
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains BHA's editorial policies. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, plus new r...   [more]
Holdings: 2008 - the present

LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for pos...   [more]

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
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    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)