Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
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Key databases
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.
ABIA
ABIA is a bibliographic index on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology.
Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.
Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Engineering Village incorporates the databases GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.
Rock Arts Studies: A Bibliographical Database
Rock Art Studies includes over 20,000 citations to the world's rock art literature.
SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ journal titles in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine with full-text back to 1999.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Full Text
The Humanities E-Book Collection consists of nearly 2,000 full-text titles covering archaeology, history, art history, literature, musicology, political science and religion.
FORENSICnetBASE Full Text
FORENSICnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on forensic science, law enforcement and criminal justice.
Web of Science
The Web of Science abstracts the scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
Worth a look
APA-FT 
Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.
CSIRO Journals Selected Full Text
The CSIRO journals provide access to latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World Full Text
This is the English-language edition of the Der Neue Pauly, the standard reference work on the ancient world.
Assignment guides
- ARPA101 The Archaeology of Civilisations
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography and Remote Sensing
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Encyclopedia of Religion
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Check the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Dictionary of Earth Sciences and the Oxford Companion to the Earth. Dictionaries and encyclopedias for other relevant subject areas are included for Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Earth & Environmental Sciences, History, Mythology & Folklore, Religion & Philosophy, and Science.
World of Earth Science
World of Forensic Science
Websites and Internet resources
About.comArchaeology A commercial site with many links to useful information and a blog written by a retired archaeologist.
AcademicInfo's Anthropology gateway
American Folklife Center's Ethnographic resources for folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology and the humanities.
Anthropology Review Database Over 1400 refereed reviews and links to journals and sites from the University of Buffalo.
Archaeology on the Net
ArchNet WWW Virtual Library: Archaeology
Athena Review Guide to archaeology on the Internet. This portal site is arranged chronologically and geographically, and favours primary source sites. Also hosts a full-text e-journal.
AURANET Australian Rock Art Research Association site
Archaeology Data Service Created by the University of York's Department of Archaeology, with a focus on British archaeology.
Australian Archaeological Association Web links relevant to archaeology.
BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) academic links for Anthropology and Archaeology
ETANA (Electronic Tools & Ancient Near East Archives)
Geoscience Australia All about Australian topographic mapping, geodesy and other essential geographic information.
National Archeological Database Provides access to comprehensive information about archaeological activities and sites in the United States.
NetSERF A collection of internet medieval resources.
SA Historical Archaeology Database Flinders University students record South Australian archaeological data from cemeteries, buildings and monuments.
Southeast Asian Archaeology Scholarly Website University of Pennsylvania Museum's bibliography and archaeological (skeletal and metal) databases.
Texas A&M University's Department of Anthropology's page with current news stories and useful links.
Tutorials on becoming an internet anthropologist, anthropology and kinship and social organization.
UNE Research Guides for Classics and Indigenous Studies.
Voice of the Shuttle: Anthropology