Research Guides: Anthropology Research: Human Evolutionary Biology

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.
PrimateLit (Harvard Key required): Searches many different types of scientific literature on nonhuman primates.
PubMed (Harvard Key required): Search biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life-science journals, and online books.
Web of Science (Harvard Key required): Indexes the world’s leading scholarly literature across the disciplines, with cited reference searching and filters that indicate markers of quality.
View More: Harvard Library Databases Search Page: See all of the Harvard Library's databases.

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.