Highlighted Databases: Anthropology and Education

In March we feature resources in Anthropology and Education, demonstrating the interdisciplinarity of the field and its relevance to understanding the human condition at many levels, with particular relevance to participatory ethnography and strengthening diverse approaches to formal and informal education.

Academic Search Premier provides active full text for over 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals. Also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals in nearly every area of academic study.

Anthropological Fieldwork Online brings the fieldwork underpinning the great ethnographies of the early 20th century into the digital world. This fully indexed, primary source database unfolds the historical development of anthropology from a global perspective, bringing together the work of early scholars who shaped the theories and methods students learn about, critique and re-shape today. Content is focused around each scholar's prominent field experience, with comprehensive inclusion of fieldwork, contextualizing documents from the same time period, including correspondence, and subsequent writings that led to major publications such as draft manuscripts, lectures and articles.

Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Contains more than over 100,000 pages of full-text material including previously unpublished material from major archives.


AnthropologyPlus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.


Anthrosource covers current and archived journals and bulletins from the American Anthropology Association.


ERIC provides access to information from journals from Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

Education Full Text provides full text from over 350 journals as far back as 1996 and indexing of over 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Includes in-depth coverage of special education, adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.

Education Index Retrospective 1929-1983 indexes more than 800 periodicals and yearbooks, and cites approximately 850,000 articles, including book reviews. The database provides information on societal trends affecting education, including segregation, multiculturalism, feminism, and economic developments.

Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences contains over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951, providing broad coverage of international material and incorporating over 100 languages and countries.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV provides access to more than 12 million scholarly academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, categorized under Area Studies, Arts, Business and Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine & Allied Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles and contains more than 200 educational reports.

Proquest provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications. 

Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research supports users in conducting research that is both critical and inclusive, offering a rich library of inspiring case studies, expert videos, datasets, and how-to guides. This collection showcases a diverse range of experiences and approaches from marginalized, underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable communities.

Social Sciences Full Text covers concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. More than 350 key international, English-language periodicals. Indexing of periodicals provided from 1983-current, full text coverage starting 1995.

SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, all sub-disciplines, and related areas. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, sociological theory, substance abuse, violence and others.


Sociological Abstracts covers international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.


For additional information be sure to check out the Anthropology and Education Research Guide.