Native American
Indian Studies Research Guide
Databases
Online
databases and periodical indexes help you search for full text articles
or article citations in Native American Indian Studies. Available on Library
computers to all. Available off-campus to UMass Amherst students, faculty,
staff, and affiliates with an OIT
account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted. Databases
that anyone may search are identified with an asterisk (*).
Suggested Native
American Indian Studies databases and periodical indexes.
(See the Database
Locator for the Library's full database list.)
Academic
Search Premier
Citations, abstracts and full text articles from scholarly
and general-interest periodicals relating to social sciences, humanities,
education, physical, and biological sciences.
America:
History and Life
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations,
and book reviews relating to United States and Canadian history.
Anthropology
Plus
Citations to journal articles, books, and book chapters
relating to archaeology, anthropology (biological and physical, social
and cultural), and linguistics, published in most European languages.
Arts
and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations, abstracts, and cited references from scholarly
journal articles in various disciplines.
Bibliography
of Native North Americans
Citations to books, essays, journal articles, and government
documents on all aspects of native North American culture, history, and
life from pre-history to the present, with some coverage back to the sixteenth
century.
Biography
Resource Center
Brief biographies.
Contemporary
Women's Issues
full text articles from periodicals relating to women
and women's issues.
Digital
Dissertations
Citations and abstracts of doctoral dissertations and
some masters theses completed at primarily American and Canadian colleges
and universities since 1861. Includes full text of the first 24 pages
of most recent (1997- ) dissertations and full text of recent UMass Amherst
dissertations.
eHRAF
Collection of Archaeology
Full text and indexing to books, journal articles, and
dissertations describing both prehistoric life and archaeological sites.
eHRAF
Collection of Ethnography
Full text and indexing to thousands of ethnographies originally
published as articles, books and dissertations.
ERIC
Citations and abstracts for education journal articles
and reports.
Ethnic
Newswatch
Full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals
of Native American Indian and other ethnic communities in the United States.
Publications include: News From Indian Country, Akwesasne Notes,
Indian Country Today, Pequot Times, and The Seminole
Tribune, among many more.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
Indexes hundreds of scholarly journals. The full text
of some articles is available, while only the citation and abstract are
available for other articles.
HAPI
(Hispanic American Periodical Index)
Citations to articles from journals in English, Spanish,
and other languages, relating to Central and South America, Mexico, the
Caribbean basin, and the United States-Mexico border region.
International
Political Science Abstracts
Citations to articles from international political science
periodicals.
JSTOR
Full text articles from core scholarly journals in the
humanists, social sciences and sciences.
Linguistics
Abstracts Online
Citations and abstracts for articles in the scholarly
journals of linguistics.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations
in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics,
literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
*National
Archeological Database
Citations to approximately 240,000 reports on archeological
planning and investigation. Also includes a variety of maps.
Project
Muse
Full text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities
and social sciences.
PsycInfo
Citations and abstracts for psychology journal articles,
books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Social
Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations, abstracts, and cited references from scholarly
journal articles in various disciplines.
Social
Science Abstracts
Citations to articles in over 520 English-language scholarly
journals in the fields of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography,
policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban affairs.
Indexing goes back to 1983 and abstracts start in 1994.
Sociological
Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles, dissertations and
conference papers from sociology and related (anthropology, education,
medicine, social psychology) journals.
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