Research Guides: ANTH 329: Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in the "New India" (BMC): Scholarly Journal Articles

Anthropology-specific Databases

AnthroSource
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Use this database to find scholarly journal articles in Anthropology. Articles are from peer-reviewed journals published by the American Anthropological Association.
Anthropology Plus
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Use this database to find scholarly journal articles in Anthropology.
Abstracts in Anthropology
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Online version of a quarterly publiction, which includes references to journal articles, miscellaneous papers, and books, arranged under sections on archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Also contains cross references and a cross index.

Scholarly Journals

Contributions to Indian Sociology
Peer- reviewed journal
The Indian Economic and Social History Review
This journal is devoted to the study of the social and economic history of India, and South Asia more generally.
Modern Asian Studies
Peer-reviewed journal that includes research articles on the history, social anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultures of modern Asia.
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
A refereed journal that provides a forum for scholarly research, comment and discussion on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations of the South Asian region, drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences.
South Asian Popular Culture
This peer-reviewed journal critically examines from theoretical and empirical perspectives the production, distribution, and consumption of South Asian popular cultural forms within the subcontinent and across international borders.

Anthropology Journals that often have articles on India

American Ethnologist
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Anthropological Quarterly
Cultural Anthropology

Multidisciplinary Databases and Search Engines

Google Scholar
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Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
ProQuest Social Science Database
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This database, formerly known as "ProQuest Social Science Journals" provides citations and abstracts to articles from about 450 social sciences periodicals. Full-text/images are available for over 200 of the periodicals indexed. Coverage from 1994 to present.
ScienceDirect
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Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals.

Tripod Articles
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Searches millions of journal articles, many of them in full text and available through the Tri-College Libraries.

Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.

Databases from other related disciplines

Most disciplines have at least one specialized database that indexes the literature from that field. The following is a partial listing of specialized databases in a few different areas that often overlap with Anthropology - but it's not an exhaustive list. Look at other subject, sub-topic or course Research Guides in this system that seem relevant to your topic for links to the most useful library databases and free resources.

ATLA Religion Database + ATLA Serials (American Theological Library Association)
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Provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Comprehensive database of education research, including journal articles, books, reports, and other sources.
Also freely available through www.eric.ed.gov.
LLBA: Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
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Contains abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, including journal articles, books, book reviews, dissertations and some conference proceedings. Covers all aspects of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology,syntax and semantics. Includes historical, comparative, theoretical and social linguistics and related disciplines such as anthropology, education, and ethnology. Covers 1973-present.
PsycINFO
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Essential database of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in psychology and related behavioral sciences from 1887 - present.
Includes PsycARTICLES journals.
PubMed
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Free database of biomedical and related life and behavioral sciences journal articles. Includes MEDLINE index and links to PubMed Central open access articles when available.
Sociological Abstracts
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Find journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines as far back as 1963. Includes Social Services Abstracts journals.
Women's Studies International
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Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, newspapers, dissertations and bulletins, in the core areas of women's studies. Subjects include, feminism, women of color, science, health and technology. Includes different women's studies resources. Covers 1972-present.