This guide was designed by Alyse Ergood to help identify resources on Biological anthropology and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the the Off Campus Connect link (formerly EZ Proxy)and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785), use our Online Chat service or send an e-mail lyref@fau.edu.


 SUBJECT HEADINGS

When using the library catalog to look for books and other materials, you may want to do a "Subject" search and use the following Library of Congress subject headings.  This is not a complete list. 
 

                                                                                    Anthropology
                                                                                    Physical anthropology
                                                                                    Evolution
                                                                                    Human evolution
                                                                                    Human remains--archaeology
                                                                                    Fossil hominids
                                                                                    Anthropometry
                                                                                    Biological diversity
                                                                                    Primates
                                                                                    Paleontology
 

*Locating materials in the S.E. Wimberly Library*
Feel free to walk through the statcks; sometimes the best books are found by browsing.  These call numbers provide the general location of materials related to physical anthropology. 
            

                                                            GN                              Anthropology (General)
                                                            GN49-298                   Physical anthropology
                                                            GN62.8-265                Human variation
                                                            GN269-279                 Race (General)
                                                            GN281-289                 Human evolution
                                                            GN296-296.5              Medical anthropology  
                                                            QH359-425                 Evolution
                                                            QH1-278.5                  Natural history (General)                                                           
                                                            QL750-795                 Animal behavior 


                                                                                    ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Each database contains a collection of journal articles, abstracts and primary sources.  Search individual databases to find your references and research.  
 

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Animal Behavior Abstracts  
Covers subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology.
  Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides 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. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
  AnthroSource
 Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.
  Arts and Humanities Search
Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. It is the online equivalent of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and is compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
 

Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. With the release of CC Connect® version 1.6, users can also search a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites through ISI Current Web Contents™.

 
Expanded Academic ASAP
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.
 
GEOBASE
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.
 
GeoRef
The GeoRef database is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
InfoTrac OneFile
Search humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text full image access to over sixty journal titles from the inception of the titles up to within the past five years. Covers African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Kluwer Online
Kluwer Online is electronic access to the journals published by Kluwer which incorporates the imprints of Kluwer Academic Publishers (including the former science and technology titles under International Thompson/Chapman & Hall), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press (both formerly published under the Plenum imprint). Includes over 600 journals along with searching capabilities, abstracts, and full-text back to 1987.
netLibrary
A collection of over 20,000 online full-text nonfiction electronic books ranging from Cliffs Notes to travel guides to computer programming manuals. Each user must set up an individual account.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature amp; Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
(PCI) Periodical Content Index Full Text
Provides indexing for the contents of older issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences dating back to 1770. Complete tables of contents are included for each issue of each journal. Includes journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Contains some full text articles.
  Primate Lit  
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).
 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.
Social Sciences Full Text
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Web of Science-Social Science Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses 
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

                                                                                                                  
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF GN307.D485 Barfield, Thomas, ed. The dictionary of anthropology.  1999.
REF GN11.E63 Birx, H. James, ed.  Encyclopedia of anthropology.  2006.
REF RA418.E354 Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember, eds.  Encyclopedia of medical anthropology:  Health and illness in the world's cultures.  2004.
REF GN20. G3513 Gerald, Gaillard.  The Routledge dictionary of Anthropologists.  2004. 
REF GN25.C65 Ingold, Tim, ed.  Companion encyclopedia of anthropology.  1994.
REF GN710.E53 Peregrine, Peter N. and Melvin Ember, eds.  Encyclopedia of prehistory.  2001. 

GUIDES

GN69.8.B46 Bennett, Kenneth A.  A field guide for human skeletal identification.  1993.
REF GN345.5.D87 Durrenberger, E. Paul and Suzan Erem, eds.  Anthropology unbound:  a field guide to the 21st century.  2007. 
CC79.5.H85 H87 Cassman, Vicki, Nancy Odegaard and Joseph Powell.  Human remains: guide for museums and academic institutions.  2006.  

SELECTED WEB SITES

American Anthropological Association Homepage
Anthropological Index Online
Anthropology in the News
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
ARD:Anthropology Review Database
Florida Department of State Historical Resources Web Site.
National Anthropological Archives
Theory in Anthropology
UCSB Links to Anthropology Web Sites
Voice of the Shuttle
VOS Anthropology Page

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS  

Off Campus access thourgh EZ-Proxy

American journal of human biology Wiley 1996 to 2007
American journal of physical anthropology Wiley 1918 to Present
Annual review of anthropology JSTOR 1972 to 2001
Anthropological science J-STAGE
 
2003 to Present
Anthropology & medicine   AcademicSearch Premier
Informaworld
1998 to Present

2000 to Present
Current anthropology EBSCO
JSTOR
1990 to Present
1959 to 1999
Evolution and human behavior Elsevier 1997 to Present
Evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews Wiley 1996 to Present
Homo: Journal of comparative biology Elsevier 2001 to Present
Human Biology ProjectMuse 2001 to Present
International journal of anthropology SpringerLink 1997 to 2006
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine DOAJ
GaleGroup
2005 to Present
2007 to Present
Journal of human evolution Elsevier 1993 to Present
Journal of physiological anthropology and applied human science
 
DOAJ
 
1996 to 2006
 
Medical anthropology quarterly
 
JSTOR
Wilson
1983 to 1999
1999 to Present

 

PRINT PERIODICALS  

American journal of human biology QP1.A49 1990 to 2003
American journal of physical anthropology GN1.A55 1918 to 1943; 1944 to 2003 (Incomplete holdings)
Anthropological science GN2.J656 1993 to 2004
Homo- Journal of comparative biology GN1.H.75 1986 to 2002; 2005 (Incomplete holdings)
International journal of anthropology GN2.I57 1990 to 2005
Journal of anthropological research GN1.S64 1973 to 2006
Journal of human evolution GN281.J63 1976 to 1991
Medical anthropology GN296.M445 1977 to 1989
Medical anthropology quarterly GN296.M53 1983 to 2004


MISCELLANEOUS

QL737.P9 M345 De Waal, ed.  Tree of origin:  what primate behavior can tell us about human social evolution.  2001.
GN27 .C648 McKinnon, Susan and Sydel Silverman.  Complexities: beyond nature & nurture.  2005. 
Electronic book Reid, Robert G.B.  Biological emergences [electronic resource] : evolution by natural experiment.  2007.
GN50.3 .H57 Spencer, Frank,ed. History of physical anthropology. 1997.
GN60 .H82 Stinson, Sara.  Human biology:  an evolutionary and biocultural perspective.  2000.  
GN62 .B55  Turner, Trudy R., ed.  Biological anthropology and ethics;  from repatriation to genetic identity.  2005. 

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