LibGuides@Southampton: Anthropology: Journal Articles

Understanding An Article Reference

A correctly formatted reference will tell you exactly where to find the full article:

DING, Y., JACOB, E. K., ZHIXIONG, Z., FOO, S., ERJIA, Y., GEORGE, N. L. and LIJIANG, G. (2009) Perspectives on social tagging, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (12), 2388-2401.

This article was written by Y Ding & colleagues, and the article's title is "Perspectives on social tagging". It was published in 2009 in the journal called "Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology". It was published in volume 60, issue 12, and the article ran from page 2388 to 2401.

Manage Your References

If you're working with lots of articles you may find EndNote, EndNote Online or Mendeley helpful. You can organise your references and insert them into your write-up - automatically formatted into the right reference style.

Take a look at our Citing & Referencing pages to find out more.

Key Databases for Anthropology

AgeInfo This link opens in a new window
AgeInfo is an information service about old age and ageing provided by the The Centre for Policy on Ageing. *No password needed on campus. Off campus access by password (click on the password icon).
Anthropological Index Online This link opens in a new window
The Anthropological Index Online is a comprehensive, user-friendly online bibliography of anthropology-related journals held in the Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum, London.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
AnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association that offers full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline; containing more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
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Empire Online brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries.

For off-campus access, click the "UK Access Management Federation" option, and select "University of Southampton".
IBSS - International Bibliography of The Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
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Provides references and, in many cases, abstracts for journal articles, books and book chapters in the social sciences, from 1951 to current.
IBSS has particular strengths in politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. Click on the TDNet links to check for full-text. No password on campus. Off campus VPN or Institutional login.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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The key database for psychology and related subjects. Contains references and abstracts for scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations, some dating back to the 1600s. The full-text is available for some journal articles. Where there is no full-text link, click on the Full Text Finder link to check for full-text.
Provided by the American Psychological Association’s (APA). The largest database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Covers related subjects including medicine, law, neuroscience, business, human resource management, nursing, forensics, criminology, engineering, sociology and gerontology. Includes about 2500 journals, in many languages, from 1800s to present (including all articles from PsycARTICLES).
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers.
No password on campus. Off campus Institutional login
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides references, and in many cases abstracts, for peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Also provides citation data and references to books and conference papers. Click on the Full Text Finder links to check for full-text.
Our access to WOS now includes the 'Emerging Sources Citations Index: 2005-present'. Journals included in ESCI cover all disciplines and range from international and broad scope publications to those that provide deeper regional or speciality area coverage.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development
No password on campus. Off campus Institutional login

How Do I Know If You Have It?

Found a good article? Now you need to know whether you can get the full text.

The article's record may have a "Full Text" or "PDF" link - click here to get the full text. If not, look out for the Full Text Finder icon:

If there's no full text link, run a "journal title" search in the Library's catalogue to see if we have it in print.

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Off-Campus Access

Accessing library resources from home

To connect to library resources such as databases and journals you will need to use the University’s VPN service called Globalprotect. Advice on how to set your connection up can be found on the iSolutions page How do I set up VPN on my device?