ANTH 405:
Tips for library research

• Google Scholar: a simple and powerful way to broadly search for scholarly articles, reports and books. **For off-campus use set your Scholar Preferences.
• Academic Search Complete: large, multidisciplinary and easy to use; includes lots of full-text articles.
  
• Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal): smaller database, clear focus on Indigenous studies resources. Offers an "Indigenous creators" filter and browsable by subject and community.
• Anthropology Plus: the most anthropology-specific database, but only the first stop for multi-disciplinary topics. Combines two resources - Anthropological Literature from Harvard and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK.
• SOCIndex: On EBSCO, the same platform as Academic Search Complete, but focused on sociology and social sciences, including anthropology.
• AnthroSource: developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), this specialized source includes current issues of AAA peer-reviewed journals and archives of all AAA journals; limited indexing and search capabilities; full text of almost all publications.
• JSTOR: provides full-text access to backfiles of important scholarly journals in many disciplines. You can limit your search results with SUBJECT: anthropology. WARNINGS: This is an archive. The latest 3 years or more are NOT available.

USEFUL TIPS:

• TIP: you can search all EBSCO databases above at the same time by selecting "choose databases".
• 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.
• Use the Findit@Concordia button within the databases to try and access the text of the articles. 

**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**

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FORMATTING GUIDES -- Bibliography and In-text Citations:

• APA Style from Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) 
• Concordia Library APA Citation & Style Guide 

The following tools may help:

• Annotated Bibliography Samples from Purdue OWL 
• How to Write an Annotated Bibliography (SFU Simon Fraser University Library)
• Sample entry from an APA annotated bibliography (Concordia Library guide)
• APA Citation Guide (7th Edition): Annotated Bibliography (University of Nevada, Reno)

**NOTE:  YOUR PROFESSOR'S INSTRUCTIONS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANY GENERAL INFO GUIDES OR EXAMPLES ABOVE. 

ZOTERO is a free and popular citation tool
(and our new alternative to RefWorks, which will be phased out by April 2020)
To begin:

1. Register for a free account
2. DOWNLOAD the appropriate Zotero program for your computer and Connector for your browser
3. Learn more via our Zotero help page
4. Check out this video on creating ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES in Zotero
    

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at Concordia:

• Use our Sofia Discovery tool
   

BEYOND Concordia:

• The Sofia Discovery tool can simultaneously search the catalogues of all Quebec university libraries, and of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. Under the Library facet on the left, simply select: Bibliothèques universitaires du Québec or Libraries worldwide.
• Google Books. Unlike simple library catalogues, this tool searches inside the pages of books. Once you have identified a useful book here, you can search for the print or ebook at Concodia using our Sofia Discovery tool.
  

*Warning: Though books (or book chapters/essays) can prove to be useful sources for your literature review, it will take more judgment and evaluation on your part to determine if they qualify as part of your peer-reviwed research. See the Help Evaluating section of this page for guidance. 

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