Biological Anthropology: Find Articles
Guide for students and faculty researching topics related to physical/biological anthropology.
Multidisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides selected full text, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar searches the academic, scholarly Web for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Searching Google Scholar from the Portland State University Library will identify full text articles available from PSU Library resources as well as open access articles from other universities and colleges.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning of a journal's publication and typically excludes the most recent three to five years.
Primary Physical Anthropology Databases
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowMaintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.
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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles and essays on anthropology, archaeology, and related fields.
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Anthropological Index This link opens in a new windowContains articles from international anthropology and archaeology journals from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum.
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AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to selected anthropology journals from the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
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All the World's Primates This link opens in a new windowComprehensive online resource for primate information detailing habitat, social behavior, diet, physical measurements, risks of extinction, and other facts critical to understanding primate lives. This resource works best with the Internet Explorer browser.
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Zoological Record This link opens in a new windowContains citations for zoological and animal science literature from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
Related Databases
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GeoRef This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles covering the earth sciences including palaeontology.
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SpringerLink - Springer online journals and ebooks This link opens in a new windowOffers full-text access to Springer scientific journals and ebooks.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowOffers full-text access to articles in Elsevier journals covering multiple subjects such as genetics, biology, chemistry, engineering, earth and planetary sciences, materials science, and medicine,