Consolidated list of Databases for Medical Anthropology Research - Anthropology 2023 - ANTH 312 [Medical Anthropology] - LibGuides at University of Victoria Libraries

Medical Databases for Medical Anthropology Research

PubMedCentral
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
PubMed PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It is updated 5 times/week.
Medline - (Web of Science) The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database.
Medline (Ovid) 1946 - present The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
Medline with Full Text (EBSCO) Provides the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

Anthropology Databases for Medical Anthropology Research

Anthropology Plus Focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material.
AnthroSource Contains publications and research of the American Anthropological Association in full-text.

Annual Review of Anthropology
The Annual Review of Anthropology covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices, regional studies and international anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.

Abstracts in Anthropology bstracts in Anthropology (AAX) is a comprehensive abstracting journal in the field of anthropology, publishing three thousand abstracts per volume providing coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics.
SAGE Research Methods SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links to book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
SAGE Research Methods Cases SAGE Research Methods Cases is a collection of case studies of real social research that faculty can use in their teaching. Cases are original, specially commissioned, and designed to help students understand often abstract methodological concepts by introducing them to case studies of real research projects.
eHRAF World Cultures A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University.

Interdisciplinary Databases for Medical Anthropology Research

JSTOR
A digital library with an archive of scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Web of Science Reliable, integrated, multidisciplinary research. Information on emerging trends, subject specific content and analysis tools. Includes Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™.
Scopus
Scopus indexes content from 25,000 active titles and 7,000 publishers to provide a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.
Quickly find relevant and trusted research, identify experts via author profiles, and access reliable data, metrics and analytical tools.
SAGE Research Methods SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links to book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
SAGE Research Methods Cases SAGE Research Methods Cases is a collection of case studies of real social research that faculty can use in their teaching. Cases are original, specially commissioned, and designed to help students understand often abstract methodological concepts by introducing them to case studies of real research projects.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Database of bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the Web presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community. It is the recognized authority for evaluating journals.

Selected Medical Anthropology Journals

Medical anthropology quarterly [electronic resource]
1983 - present
ABOUT this journal: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15481387/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope
Medical anthropology
1977-
ABOUT this journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=gmea20
Culture, health & sexuality [electronic resource]
1999- present
ABOUT this journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=tchs20
Culture, medicine and psychiatry [electronic resource]
1997 to present
ABOUT this journal : https://www.springer.com/journal/11013
Social science & medicine [electronic resource]
1982 - present
ABOUT this journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/social-science-and-medicine
See also records in the Libraries Catalogue, for this same title for 1981; 1978-1980 ; 1967-1977
American anthropologist [electronic resource]
1888 to present
ABOUT this journal: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15481433/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope
Cultural anthropology [electronic resource] : journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.
1986 to present
ABOUT this journal: https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/about
Anthropology & medicine [electronic resource]
1997 to present
ABOUT this journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=canm20
Ethnicity & disease [electronic resource].
2015 to 6 months ago
ABOUT this journal https://www.ethndis.org/edonline/index.php/ethndis/index
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine [electronic resource].
01/01/2005 to present
ABOUT this journal: http://www.medanthrotheory.org/about
MAT: Medicine Anthropology Theory [electronic resource]
2013-present
ABOUT this journal: http://www.medanthrotheory.org/about

Selected eJournal Collections

ScienceDirect Full-text database of scientific, technical and medical information. ScienceDirect content includes journals from Elsevier and other science/technology/medical publishers in addition to an expanding suite of secondary databases.
Nature Journals Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is the scientific publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, combining the excellence of Nature, Nature Research Journals, Nature Reviews Journals, NPG Academic Journals and NPG Reference publications, to provide the world's premier information resource for the basic biological and physical sciences.
Science Online The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Wiley Online Journals Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. Wiley InterScience reaches a worldwide audience of close to 25 million users in 87 countries and features must-have content from more than 2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
BioOne High-impact bioscience research journals.
American Chemical Society Journals Access to the full text of all American Chemical Society journals from 1879 to the present.
BioMedCentral Science, technology, and medicine publisher of 281 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirology and BMC Genomics.
Cell Press Journals Biomedical research and reviews.

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