ANTH 270 - Library tips
for your assignments
This web page is designed to help you with the research compoments of your Midterm Literature Review. It should be used in conjunction with your professor's assignment instructions. Please feel free to use one of the Ask a Librarian services for additional quick questions, or contact Connect with me via Zoom on Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 pm for additional assistance.
If you simply want to access a specific article, book, book chapter or film, just search in the:
- Sofia Discovery tool
- for help with Sofia, us our CHAT / Ask a Librarian services
For examples of extensive and sophisticated literature reviews with a scholarly anthropological lens, see:
For general guidelines on how to write a literature review, including a link to an example of an extensive literature review in a social sciences journal, see:
**NOTE: YOUR PROFESSOR'S INSTRUCTIONS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANY GENERAL INFO GUIDES OR LIT REVIEW EXAMPLES ABOVE.
- EBSCO databases such as:
Anthropology Plus | SocINDEX | Academic Search Complete (multidisciplinary)
**TIP: you can search two or all three of these at the same time by selecting "Choose datababases"
- Sociological Abstracts (sociology & anthropology)
- Google Scholar (multidisciplinary)
(see: How to set up Google Scholar to find Concordia Resources)
USEFUL TIPS:
- For Quick Tips on how to enter search terms in most of these databases, see this one-page SEARCH STRATEGIES CHEAT SHEET.
- You can click on the Scholarly/Peer-reviewed journals checkbox in most of the databases above to ensure that the citations you choose are acceptable peer-reviewed articles. See also Evaluating Sources.
**FUN TIP:
If you have found an interesting citation that is not very recent, use the "Cited by" link available in many databases (especially in Google Scholar) to find similar and more recent articles**
To find additional material related to the issues or themes you have chosen for your assignments, you can use the required, recommended and selected assigned readings in Course Outline, but you can also try more anthropology sources resources:
- Oxford Bibliographies: Anthropology
- Annual Review of Anthropology
- Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (2015)
IS IT SCHOLARLY/ACADEMIC/PEER-REVIEWED?
Your professor's instructions should always be the first criteria in determining what qualifies as an appropriate academic source. If you feel you need additional guidance in this area, however, you might find some relevant tips in the guides below.
- Our library tutorial on: How do I know if an article is scholarly or peer reviewed?
- A quick tip or quick video from our library guide about peer-reviewed articles
- Scholarly vs. Popular Sources guide from Berkeley (for book chapters as well as journal articles)
- Peer-review in 3 minutes (NCSU Libraries)
When evaluating the quality of a variety of material, the following library guide might provide some help:
- How to evaluate research materials and resources
- ACT UP Evaluation Method (an alternative approach that tries to "push against dominant narratives")
- Your outline states that you must include full references and page notations (in-text citations) for the article you are analyzing and any other material you use.
- The APA Citation & Style Guide can help. For example:
- sample full references for an online journal article for your cover page
- sample page notations for the body of your paper (also called in-text citations)