LibGuides: ANTH 319 Research Methods in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology : Introduction to Libraries

Welcome

Welcome!

This guide is designed to help you with required coursework for UVic Anthropology courses, especially ANTH 319: Research Methods in Archaeology and Biomedical Anthropology. The guide is not exhaustive; there are other resources and approaches available. Always keep in mind course requirements as set by your professor.

Click on any of the tabs on the side to find books, articles, and more. If you need assistance, you can get help from librarians by appointment, or via email, phone, or chat. Or email Tina Bebbington, Anthropology Librarian, for assistance.

What are libraries?

"Scholarship is a conversation" is one of six pillars in the ACRL Information LIteracy Framework . It i simply the idea that researchers, scholars, and learners engage together anytime they communicate - this can be through reading, viewing, writing, posting, presenting and more. Anytime you read an article, cite an idea, or run a search you are in conversation with other scholars, building on their work, and creating new knowlege.

Here are some additional tools and sources, that facilitate your conversations with libraries, sources, and scholars:

Center for Research Libraries Catalog (CRL) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Interlibrary Loan

WorldCat.org WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby. Links directly to UVic Libraries' Intrerlibrary Loans service, if you are on campus or logged into uvic.ca.

Zotero

A note on disciplinarity

Libraries and library tools lean heavily on disciplinarity for a variety of reasons:

as an understandable way to organize large amounts of information, and bring together related information
to facilitate the 'scholarly conversation' - helping scholars in a discipline 'speak' with one another though the use of standards, conventions, citation and writing styles, and other 'languages' in that conversation

When you are taking a multi- or interdsciplinary approach, this can be frustrating. Start with broader interdsciplinary tools, and use multiple disciplinary tools, after considering what areas your themes are likely to be in.