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Need advice on writing or revising your paper? Visit UNC's Writing Center. You can make appointments and read helpful writing tips.

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Finding Books

   

Catalog | Advanced Search | New Books | Classic Catalog | Search TRLN | WorldCat

Catalog Search Tips

Search for books or journals, or see what materials UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries own on your topic, using the catalog.

Sample catalog record: Something new under the sun : an environmental history of the twentieth-century world

Library of Congress (LC) subject headings can be helpful when searching the catalog. An excellent strategy is to start with a simple keyword search in the catalog and identify one or more relevant books. Then you can look at the LC subject headings given to those titles, and you can follow the subject links in the catalog to find other, similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.

 Subject Search: "Human ecology--History."

 Keyword Search: "Human Ecology" and History

How Do I Read a Call Number? | Davis Library Book Locations

Finding Articles

Academic Search Premier
Excellent database for starting your research. Covers most academic disciplines, but not very deeply. Includes popular materials in addtion to peer-reviewed academic journals.

AnthroSource
Full-text search of AAA publications.

JSTOR
Important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines. All articles have PDFs!

History Search
Covers history of the world from 1450 to present. You can search by historical period.

Foundation: Encyclopedias

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: online version of cricially important work.

There are several excellent environmenal and anthropology encyclopedias in the reference room in Davis Library. Browse in the GFs and the GNs. map of Davis Reference.

Finding Films

The Media Resources Center, in the lower level of the Undergraduate Library, owns many films. Use FilmFinder to search.

Guides and Tutorials

We have one online subject guides to help you find materials in specific areas of Anthropology.

Tutorial on evaluating books, articles and websites. This will help you evaluate the suitability of articles for your papers.

Distinguishing Popular and Scholarly Journals

 

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