Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature (AL)
from Harvard University, and Anthropological Index (AI) from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK. Anthropology Plus provides 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 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. The database contains 803,745 records, although many are duplicate entries that appear in both AL and AI.

Getting Started
From the UMass Amherst Digital Library, www.library.umass.edu, click Database Locator, then Display all titles, and select Anthropology Plus from the list. If prompted, enter your OIT username and password.

Searching
Click a radio button to choose a type of search, then enter terms in the box and click Search. For more complex searches, click Advanced Search.

Search Tips
Keyword searches find your term(s) in author, title, abstract, and note sections of the record.

Enter Author with last name, followed by first name or initial and choose from the resulting list.
Example:
rosaldo, r

Journal searches
Use the exact title. A list is available on the opening Anthropology Plus screen.

Advanced search
Click here for searches in more than one section of the record. Specify indexes on the pull-down menu, and combine using and between lines to find citations with all your words; or to find citations with any of your words; and not to exclude terms.
Examples:
keyword india and keyword women
subject word churches or subject word temples
subject word vietnam and not keyword war

Truncation
To find all words with the same root, use the question mark (?).
Example:
afric?
finds africa, africans, africanist, etc.

Use Title Word and Subject Word searches (on both the basic search screen and the pull-down menu on Advanced) to find your term anywhere in the given field; use the plain Subject and Title searches (on the pull-down menu on Advanced) to find your term as the first word of the given field.

Viewing Search Results
Search results vary depending on the type of search.

Keyword, Title, Journal, or combined searches return a brief title list. Click Brief Title to view record.

Subject or Author searches yield a list of subject headings or authors' names containing your term. Select desired subjects or authors, or click the check-mark over the list to select all on a page. Choose to display related citations as a List or as Brief or Full records.

Refining Search Results
Limiting the Search
When viewing search results, use the yellow Limit button above the list of citations to limit by language or date.

Combining Existing Searches
Click Previous Searches, top menu, to see existing searches. To find records that came up in both searches -- the same as combining with a Boolean and -- click to select and click Combine. (Or and not are not available here.)

Marking Records to Email, Print, or Save to Disk
While viewing records in any format, click the ones you want to keep, or select all on a page by clicking Check All, just above the list. Click Brief or Full to redisplay selected records.

To Email
With selected records displayed in desired format, click Email and enter an email address.

To Print
With selected records displayed in desired format, click Print. In the pop-up box that redisplays your records, go to File on the menu bar, and choose Print. Note: Printing from library PCs requires a UCard and costs 5¢ per page. Follow the instructions at the printing stations.

To Save to Disk
With selected records displayed in desired format, click Print. As the pop-up box redisplays your records: Go to File, top of pop-up window. Go to Save As. Insert a floppy disk into the a: drive, if available and select the a: drive, or minimize Anthropology Plus and open your UDrive account (OIT account holders only) via the icon on the desktop, and select the U: drive. Name the file. It will be saved as text. Click OK. Note: For security, be sure to log out of your U: drive account after you use it on a public PC.