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Anthropology Plus
A comprehensive index of articles and monographs on anthropology, archaeology and anthropological linguistics. Covers over 2500 journals and books in series.
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Combines of two indexes: Anthropological Literature from Harvard's Tozzer Library and Anthropological Index from the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. The database covers all journal articles, reports, commentaries, obituaries, etc. at least two pages long in over 2,500 journals and monographic series. Covers the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture. Indexes journals from late 19th century to present.
Artefacts Canada
A database of over 4 million object records from Canadian museums and collections.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Available through ISI Web of Science, indexes 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, and journal.
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Art & Architecture Source
Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
BCIN - Bibliographic Database of Conservation Information
BCIN provides access to over 190,000 bibliographic citations for conservation literature. BCIN includes citations from the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (prior to 1998), technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books and audiovisual and unpublished materials.
JSTOR
Full-text articles from major journals in art, archeology, anthropology, history, etc.
Limited to authorized U-M users
Library Articles Search
Discovery tool for finding journal and newspaper articles, dissertations, and more across many disciplines.
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
Journal abstracts from the fields of library science and archives.

Project MUSE
Full-text access to scholarly journals & e-books published by over 120 scholarly societies & university presses.

Proquest Research Library
A useful, general database. Some articles are full-text.
Limited to authorized U-M users
U-M Library Databases Search
Searchable and browseable listing of all databases available. Search by title or by discipline.

Last Updated: Aug 20, 2025 4:12 PM

Subjects: Arts, Humanities

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