Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from the Tozzer Library at Harvard University and the Anthropological Index of the the Museum of Mankind Library of the Royal Anthropological Institute (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. There are about 800,000 records in the Anthropology Plus database, and is available to current UT Arlington faculty & students via this web addresses:

http://eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-anthplus.cgi

Searching

The truncation symbol in Anthropology Plus is a question mark (?), and can be used to find variant spellings. For example, the command LABO?R will search for both LABOR and LABOUR.

Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information are AND and OR. The AND is used to connect two different concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous. Result sets of 250 or fewer records are sorted by date.

Here are two examples to illustrate some of these points:

NEANDER? AND DNA
LABO?R AND MARKET

The first statement will find material that uses the words "NEANDERTHAL" or "NEANDERTHALS" and then link this set to the items that have the string of letters "DNA." The next statement will find material that uses the words "labor" or "labour" and links these to the word "market."

John Dillard, Social Sciences Librarian
dillard@uta.edu
cell: (817) 675-8962 - - office: (817) 272-7518