Research Guides: Anthropology Research: Archaeology

Background Information

Annual Reviews (Harvard Key required): Searches review articles, including the Annual Review of Anthropology.
Oxford Bibliographies (Harvard Key required): Articles that are written and reviewed by scholars, which provide an overview of a topic and an annotated bibliography.
Very Short Introductions Online (Harvard Key required): Concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects.

Anthropology Plus (Harvard Key required): A good source for finding book reviews, both historical and current.
Google Books (some content free / open access): A useful tool for searching within books and seeing book previews.
HOLLIS (some content free / open access): Contains information about the many different types of items held in the Harvard Library.

Academic Search Premier (Harvard Key required): A general-purpose database covering scholarly journals as well as more mainstream publications.
Anthropology Plus (Harvard Key required): Searches the major literature, including journals, in anthropology and related fields.
AnthroSource (Harvard Key required): Searches journals published by the American Anthropological Association.
Google Scholar (some content free / open access): Searches many different types of publications across a variety of disciplines. Learn how to connect Google Scholar to your library access.
HRAF Archaeology (Harvard Key required): Searches books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts.
JSTOR (Harvard Key required): Searches many different types of publications across a variety of disciplines.
See More: Harvard Library Databases Search Page: See all of the Harvard Library's databases.

HOLLIS (some content free / open access): Contains information about the many different types of items held in the Harvard Library.
Harvard Dataverse (free / open access): Harvard's open online repository for sharing, preserving, citing, exploring, and analyzing research data.
Harvard Map Collection (Harvard ID or Special Borrower Card required): Offer Harvard affiliates support for and access to a number of mapping and geographic information systems tools, as well as cartographic design support.
Harvard Geospatial Library (free / open access): A catalog and search tool for regional and local geographic data and georeferenced scanned paper maps.

ARTstor (some content free / open access): Contains images from museums, libraries, and archives from all over the world.
Google Arts & Culture (free / open access): A massive online platform that contains images from over 130 museums from around the world.
HOLLIS Images (some content free / open access): Includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.

DASH (free / open access): Harvard's central, open-access repository for research by Harvard community members. Contains Harvard anthropology dissertations from 2012-present and some undergraduate theses.
HOLLIS (some content free / open access): Find dissertations and theses written by scholars from Harvard.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Harvard Key required): Find dissertations and theses written by scholars from North American universities. Most post-1990 titles are available with full-text.