If you know where an article was published:
The place to start is the Library Catalogue.| The Catalogue provides references to all the print and electronic journals held by LSE Library. See these slides on what to do.
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Use the advanced search option and enter the title of the journal in which the article was published, e.g. American Anthropologist.
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Two entries will appear if the title is available in both paper and online formats. Note the years available in both may be different, so remember to check both records.
Conducting a subject search for journal articles
The LSE Library subscribes to a number of key databases which will enable you to do keyword searches for journal articles for your dissertation.
These provide many more references than you will find on Google Scholar.
View these slides for a quick guide| on how to get started
Anthropology journal indexes
There are a number of specialist databases you can use. The key ones are highlighted below. A full list can also be viewed here.|
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Anthropology Plus combines the contents of Anthropological Literature and the Anthropological Index. Anthropological Literature is a searchable database which provides bibliographic references to journal articles, reports, essays and book reviews relating to all aspects of Anthropology. The material is compiled by the Tozzer Library, University of Harvard and covers materials published from the 19th century to the present day. Updates to the database are made quarterly. Anthropological Index provides references to articles in journals taken by the Royal Anthropological Institute Library
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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - IBSS provides references to articles published since the 1950s it includes many in European languages such as French and German)
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The Web of Knowledge (Also offering articles since the 1950s . These are more North American based and cover a wider range of humanities, science and social science subject areas.) (Click here for a quick guide) It is possible to conduct cited reference searches to quickly locate the most highly cited articles.You can also easily set up research alerts
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Scopus - Enormous database covering the whole of the sciences, social sciences and humanities. A useful complement to Web of Knowledge. Also allows cited reference searching. and research alerts.
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Africa Bibliography Find rrferences to articles and book chapters covering all aspects of African studies from the 1960s onwards. There are also a number of free area studies services which are offered via the Internet. The LSE Library keeps a list of these on our delicious Account.
It is possible to cross Search some of these resources simultaneously using the Library Cross Searcher service|. However, note that while it is quick to use: it does not include all the database you might need, e.g. AnthropologyPlus; NEXIS (for newspaper articles is currently excluded). It also does not allow advanced search functions. If you want to search for types of materials (such as book reviews) or set up personalisation alerts you will need to search the databases individually. Do this by searching for the title of the database on the LSE Library catalogue. This will give you the main log in screen.
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Always follow the links from the LSE Library web pages. Links to journal articles taken from Google may not work!