Learn how to search Anthropology Plus

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ANT1CAG: Introduction
to library resources
Searching Anthropology Plus
September 2016

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Example Topic
“How can environmental anthropologists contributing to discussion about
climate change?”
Each topic has 2 or 3 main concepts/ideas- these are:
E.g. Environment anthropologists ”climate change”
Determine the key concepts or ideas of the topic:

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Think of synonyms and alternate spellings:
Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3
Environment or
environmental
AND anthropologist/s
OR
AND “climate change”
or “climate changes”
anthropology
OR
“global warming”
OR
anthropological greenhouse
Define your search terms:

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Search tips
Truncation: A truncation symbol added to the end of a term allows you to find word
variations or alternative spellings.
• anthropolog* = anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological
Wildcards (use for alternative spellings) are used to substitute a symbol for a single
letter (character) of a word
• organi?ation = organisation or organization
Phrase searching: This requires terms be searched in the exact order specified within
the “quotation marks”.
• “climate change”

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Databases!
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You can access a wide range of databases
in your subject area from the library
homepage. This is how you can find
‘Anthropology’ databases.
1. From the library homepage, select
‘Databases’
2. From the next page, click on the
down arrow next to the ‘Subject
area’ box

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Databases!
3. Look for the ‘Humanities &
Social Sciences’ heading and
select ‘Anthropology’
4. Click on ‘Go’
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Databases!
Here is the list of databases relevant to
Anthropology. If you want to know more
information about each database, click on
the blue button.
5. For this example, use ‘Anthropology
Plus’
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Searching the databases: Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
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6. Look at the original search question and add the search terms into the search
boxes, combining each term with AND then click on search.
Once you have your results list, you can further
refine it. Look at the left side of the screen for ways
to do this:
i. Date: last 5 or 10 years
ii. Source type: limit to Academic journals
iii. Subject: this is another way to retrieve articles
more relevant to your research question
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Searching the databases: Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
• Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
7. You can get the full text from here
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Searching the databases: Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
• Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
8. When you click on the
link to a journal article in
‘Anthropology Plus’, you
are taken to a screen like
this. This is the list of
databases which holds
the journal from which
the article you want
comes. You can select
any of these.
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Searching the databases: Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
• Using Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
9. This is the version of the
article from the ‘ProQuest
Central’ database.
10. Tip: where a pdf version of
the article is available, use
this one as it will be
presented exactly as it looks
in print. This will make
referencing easier when you
are referring to specific
page numbers.
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Library
ASSC – Anthropology
B.Gargan@latrobe.edu.au
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