Library guides
- Library Catalogue search guide
- How to find journal articles
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Evaluating sources
Once you've found a web resource related to your topic, evaluating its reliability is the critically important final step. Make sure to ask the basic questions: Who? What? Where? When? and Why? - Understanding and avoiding plagiarism [interactive tutorial]
Books
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Journal articles and literature reviews
Find a peer-reviewed article in Social Sciences (Oct 2017)
Start with
Anthropology Plus
Key database for Anthropological journal articles.
AnthroSource
Full-text access to journals produced by the American Anthropological Association
For a more complete list, see Anthropology databases
Literature reviews
- Annual Reviews - In addition to the "Annual review of anthropology " and " Annual review of sociology", the search engine will find review articles from criminology, economics, environment, genomics and human genetics. law, political science, public health and more.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online - provides "literature reviews" for topics in sociology, anthropology, African studies, geography, international relations, Islamic studies, Latin American studies, political science and more.
Other
- GEOBASE - for human geography, labour, migration, refugees, etc.
- Social Theory - documents from prominent social sciences theorists.
For Canadian perspectives:
- CBCA Complete
- Canada Commons (formerly, Canadian Electronic Library from desLibris) - for public policy documents from Canadian institutes, think-tanks and research groups.
- Canadian Newsstream - covers Canadian newspapers, including Vancouver Sun, Globe & Mail
For more, try Anthropology Databases
For Primary documents, check the guide to "publication types" and choose primary sources
Citation searching
To see who is citing your "key" authors or to identify a cluster of people working in an area, try "citation searching."