To locate methods of research for your discipline, use a keyword search in OneSearch and add your discipline, i.e. Anthropology AND "research method."
The following resources are places you can start your research methods research.
Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography
Ethnography: Principles in Practice
Introduction to Ethnographic Research: A Guide for Anthropology
Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Find out about peer review articles and how to identify them by watching this video. NC State University Libraries. This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) Collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering more than 1 million dissertations and theses.
Below are databases to start your research. To see the complete listing of Anthropology-related databases and additional databases, visit A-Z Databases: Anthropology. For all databases, visit A-Z Databases.
Anthropology Plus (EBSCO) Indexes over 5,800 journals covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Combines Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature.
AnthroSource Full-text digital, searchable database of American Anthropological Association (AAA) publications. Titles also available via Wiley Online Library.
EBSCOhost Research Databases Search across a wide range of general and subject specific databases, including resources previously provided by H.W. Wilson.
ERIC (EBSCO) ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) provides\access to education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1.4 million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents.
GenderWatch Provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Includes scholarly journal articles, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
JSTOR Archive of back issues of core scholarly journals across a wide range of subjects, with an emphasis on arts, humanities, and social sciences. Also includes current content for select journals and a large collection of University Press books.
Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is a non-governmental, non-profit public resource for paleontological data. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well as data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Provides access to abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles and book chapters in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
SpringerLink Full-text access to journals, books, series, protocols, and reference works published by Springer.
Wiley Online Library A platform for journals, primarily in the sciences, health sciences, and technology fields, but also featuring social sciences and society publications. We have access to only a subset of the publications here.
WorldCat.org (OCLC) WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world. Includes books, music CDs, videos, digital content, and article citations, available in many languages.
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