LibGuides@Southampton: Archaeology: Databases

Subject specific databases

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A fully-searchable database of the positions of more than 200,000 archaeological sites and worldwide landscape features. A unique interactive mapping system and worldwide database of archaeological, historic, and cultural site GPS location data. The revolutionary ARCHI search engine features a variety of visual historical and geographical research aids, including LiDAR, old maps, terrain
International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books, collected essays etc relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500).

Digimap

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Digimap is an online map and data delivery service. Operated by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Digimap offers a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, LiDAR and marine maps and spatial data. Registration is required.
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Provides access to some of the highest quality aerial photography of Great Britain. It is ideal for looking at the reality of a location in detail and is available in 25cm vertical ortho-photography.
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Environment Digimap offers a range of Land Cover Map data products. A range of online tools are available to facilitate the viewing, selecting and downloading of maps and/or data. Pre-Registration required.
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Geology Digimap provides access to maps and data from the British Geological Survey. Maps can be viewed online and printed, and the geological map data can be downloaded for use in CAD/GIS.
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A collection of open data from various sources covering the globe
Digimap Historic This link opens in a new window
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Historic Digimap offers a range of historical Ordnance Survey mapping data products from 1843 to 1996. A range of online tools are available to facilitate viewing, interrogation and download of these products.
Ancient Roam allows you to view historical Ordnance Survey maps from the 1840s to the 1990s. Zoom through 12 different levels from maps at 1:500 to 1:10 560 in scale; view the same location for two different points in time to see what has changed. Land Use Map Viewer is a simple interface for viewing the Dudley Stamp Land Use maps created in the 1930s, compare 1930s Land Use map with contemporary OS map and search for location by place name or coordinates. For current maps use Digimap Ordnance Survey.
Digimap Lidar This link opens in a new window
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A collection of open data from various national and government agencies, including the Environment Agency, Scottish Government, SEPA, Scottish Water and Natural Resources Wales
Digimap Marine This link opens in a new window
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Marine Digimap contains scanned and georeferenced marine maps at scales ranging from 1:3,500,000 to 1:2,500 available for making maps online or for download. There is also vector data containing a huge range of themes covering all aspects of marine spatial information
Digimap Ordnance Survey This link opens in a new window
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Digimap Ordnance Survey is part of the most comprehensive maps and geospatial data service in UK Higher and Further Education. It allows you to view, annotate and print current OS maps; download OS mapping data for use in GIS and CAD; find information about postcodes and place names.
Registration is required and includes an end user license. Note: This service is only available to UK based staff and students.
Digimap Society This link opens in a new window
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Provides a wealth of census (2011) and socio-economic data for Great Britain as layers (40+) to visualise along with high quality Ordnance Survey data, users can access the rich information to gain valuable insights for their areas of interest without the need to learn how to use a GIS.

Subject specific databases for Anthropology

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

Gale

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Gale is a collection of primary and secondary sources. It is a collection of medicine, engineering, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics, religion and many other fields of science, books, archival materials and news sources.

Larger databases, not subject specific

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An off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled for broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists. Further information
Please switch off Global Protect for off-campus access.
Due to E.U legislation, any UK registered students in the EU will not be able to access BoB (apart from the BBC News Channel* ) from 1st January 2021.
British Periodicals Collections I, II, III and IV This link opens in a new window
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Providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
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.
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Journal Archives brings together content from 8 major publishers: Brill, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, ProQuest, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Taylor and Francis.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes 1,500+ leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences,
Also lists select monographs and other academic sources such as Hebrew language journals
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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This database includes information about scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run and currently contains more than 2 million records. Not all records have full text available online.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies offers authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas with articles written by over 6,000 scholars from around the globe. Subjects include; Art History, British and Irish Literature, Cinema & Media, Chinese Studies, Education, Environmental Science, International Law, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Management Studies, Music and Psychology
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content. It includes ebooks and journals.
University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
A vast and rapidly-expanding online research library providing full-text access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world, making disparately-published scholarship easily accessible and fully searchable on a single online platform.
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Previously called the Web of Knowledge. Provides access to a number of databases including Web of Science Core Collection (covering engineering, science, health, social science, humanities, etc.), BIOSIS (biological & biomedical science) and Inspec (physics, computing, electrical & electronic engineering, etc.). Select 'All Databases’ to search multiple databases simultaneously or choose an individual database.

Media

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more.
BoB This link opens in a new window
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An off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled for broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists. Further information
Please switch off Global Protect for off-campus access.
Due to E.U legislation, any UK registered students in the EU will not be able to access BoB (apart from the BBC News Channel* ) from 1st January 2021.
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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries.The service includes features such as captions, transcripts, clip creation, and playlist creation that allow users to share videos.

Please note: You will need to create a personal account to access Kanopy through either the mobile or TV apps. Creating an account on Kanopy will also allow you to save videos to your Watchlist to view later, create clips and playlists.

For more help creating an account, click here
Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
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An extensive online portal that allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Please note: you will need to register on the site to use features such as “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects”.