Resources for Researching the Diversity of Human Societies

First Year Seminar, Spring 2005

Databases Available from the Coates Library Home Page:  http://lib.trinity.edu

• Academic Search Complete
• Anthropological Index Online
• Biology Digest
• Population Index
• Project Muse
• Social Sciences Abstracts

Reference Books

• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
  Reference GN 281 C345 1992
• Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology
  Reference CC 70 C59 1999
• Countries and Their Cultures
  Reference GN 307 C68 2001 (4 vols)
• Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
  Reference GN 307 E648 1996 (4 vols.)
• Encyclopedia of Global Change:  Environmental Change
  Reference GE 149 E47 2002
• Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
  Reference GN 281 E53 2000
• History of Physical Anthropology
  Reference GN 50.3 H57 1997 (2 vols.)

Web Sites

• Human Origins and Evolution in Africa
  http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/
• Becoming Human:  Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
  http://www.becominghuman.org/
• World Wide Web Virtual Library:  Indigenous Studies
  http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html

Thinking of Googling? 

        Try Google Scholar instead!

Helpful Sites from the Library

        Guides to Citing Sources

        Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites

        Using RefWorks to Manage your Bibliography

Prepared by Barbara MacAlpine

Science Librarian/Trinity University

www.trinity.edu/bmacalpi/

January 26, 2005