ANTH : Library tips for your research paper & bibliography
This web page is designed to be used in conjunction with the assignment instructions on your ANTH outline.
Don't forget that you can also borrow required textbooks and your coursepack via Course Reserves - just type ANTH .
At least two of the sources in your bibliography must be a research or ethnographic article on the medical/treatment practice you are examining. To find these kinds of articles you can:
1 - TRY ARTICLE DATABASES:
- Anthropology Plus: the most respected anthropology-specific database, but small in scope compared to the other databases.
- SocINDEX: sociology database with anthropological material
- Academic Search Complete: large, multidisciplinary.
- JSTOR: TIP: Under Narrow by Discipline, you can select the checkbox: Anthropology
- Google Scholar
- AnthroSource
- PubMed (MEDLINE): mostly medical journals. International coverage.
TIPS:
- You can limit your search results to only academic research articles by selecting the Peer-reviewed checkbox on the search results page of many of the databases above.
- To find articles that provide an anthopological or ethnographic approach, try adding keywords like these to your search terms: ethnograph* OR anthropolog* OR cultural.
2 - TRY INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS:
Appropriate journal titles could include (but are NOT limited to):
- Medical Anthropology
- Anthropology & Medicine
- Anthropologie et santé
- Social Science & Medicine
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Culture, medicine and psychiatry
- Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
TIPS:
- Most of these journals are also all indexed in Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar
- If it looks like one of the articles or issues are unavailable to you, see Help ACCESSING Texts or Related Library Services below to find out how to access what you need.
To find more general and theoretical sources for your research paper, you can search for additional articles in the article databases listed above, or:
- Search CLUES to find books or book chapters
- To find the sources recommended in your course outline (see the list of Additonal Readings and Resources on the last page), use the CLUES Title Search (for books) or CLUES Journal Title Search (for journal articles)
- To find the sources recommended in your course outline (see the list of Additonal Readings and Resources on the last page), use the CLUES Title Search (for books) or CLUES Journal Title Search (for journal articles)
- You can also find general background and factual informatiom in online encyclopedias:
- try specific titles such as:
- or more multidisciplinary reference sources such as:
- References according to the American Anthropological Assocation (AAA) style:
- For help with references according to other bibliography styles (ie APA) see our Citation & Style Guides
- You can also try RefWorks -- it can help you keep track of your references and automate the creation of your Bibliography.
- To learn how to send references from your favourite databases to RefWorks see Export-Import Instructions
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")
see our Library Tutorial:
- Article Delivery Service - Free email service for journal articles or books chapters only available in print or in microform at Concordia.
- Interlibrary Loans (COLOMBO) - fill out an online form to receive books and articles NOT AVAILABLE at Concordia.
- BCI card (formerly CREPUQ) - allows you to directly borrow books at McGill and elsewhere.
- Quick help is always available at our Reference & Information Desk on the main floor of the Webster Library or from one of our other Ask a Librarian services - pick your favourite option.
- If you are still not finding what you need or you would like more assistance, please feel free to contact me to make an appointment.
- There are also many help & how-to pages available on our web site, including General Guides such as the step-by-step guide How to find articles.