Library Contacts
Ye Li
Shapiro Science Library
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Scott Martin
Shapiro Science Library
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Jennifer Nason Davis
Hatcher Graduate Library
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Lori Tschirhart
Shapiro Science Library
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Library Help
The current on-duty librarian for the library-wide Ask a Librarian IM service is available when you see a green dot at the top of the box.
See http://www.lib.umich.edu/ask for additional contact methods.
Select Databases
The following databases (indexes) are particulary useful for finding information on primate social behavior. There is no one-database-fits-all so repeating the same search across two or more databases is necessary in order to do a thorough search of the research literature.
- Specialized index of journal articles focusing on zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. Also covers taxonomy and classification.
- Contains over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other non serial literature from over 100 countries.
- Journal coverage from 1864 to present.
For more information, go to the factsheet.
- A collection of 3 databases: Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index.
- Multi-disciplinary. Covers biology, zoology, psychology as well as other disciplines.
- Provides features such as Cited Reference searching.
- Dates of coverage varies with each database.
- Contains journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology.
- Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, sports psychology, anthropology, business and law.
- Includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in over 35 languages.
- Journal coverage from 1887 to present.
- PsycArticles is a subset of PsycInfo and contains more than 110,000 searchable full-text articles from 60 scholarly journals. Journal coverage from 1894.
- The leading index to scholarly journal literature in biology (eg. botany, ecology) and related fields in the life sciences.
- Also indexes books, book chapters, conferences and technical reports.
- Covers over 5,000 journals in the life sciences.
- Contains over 13 million records from 1955 to present.
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Credits
This guide was originally created for the University Library by Jean Jones.
Anthropology Journals
The Online Journals & Newspapers List contains an Anthropology category.
Make a note of the date range (holdings) for any journal you wish to search. While many are open-ended (ie we still subscribe to the title), some titles are only available online for a specific time period.
A Word about Indexes, Catalogs and Google
Indexes / Catalogs
Indexes (AKA databases):
- They filter the literature to collect articles only from authoritative sources or subject relevant sources.
- They "browse" thousands of journals efficiently.
- They glimpse the articles inside the journals.
- They give results per parameters you specify.
- Journals contained in these indexes may or may not be subscribed to by the University of Michigan.
Catalogs:
Mirlyn is the catalog of the University of Michigan. All book and journal titles listed here are owned or subscribed to by the University. There are currently two versions of Mirlyn: new Mirlyn and Mirlyn Classic.
Why not Google?
Anyone can publish a website. Information contained in these websites is not necessarily authoritative, current or unbiased. Some websites can offer good background information for a topic, but are not appropriate for inclusion into a scholarly research paper.
For more information, go to Guide to Evaluating Websites
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