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ANTH 212 (Gender, Sex, and Culture) Course Guide: Finding Articles

This guide is intended for students registered in ANTH 212 taught by Larry van der Est.

Article Databases

Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database that includes articles from numerous anthropology journals.
JSTOR
Includes articles from the journals: Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Annual Review of Anthropology, and more.
MAS Ultra
Provides access to popular magazines, reference books, biographies, and primary source documents.

News Articles

Canadian Major Dailies
Search Canadian newspapers. Included are national and regional papers such as National Post and the Vancouver Sun.

BBC News
BBC News is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
CBC
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is a Canadian crown corporation and is the national public radio and television broadcaster.

Theses & Dissertations

Theses Canada Search
Students of PhD & Masters degree programs write very long papers after doing a lot of research called theses or dissertations. These can be hundreds of pages long and are usually divided into sections. Many theses written by students of Canadian universities are available online and can be great sources of extensive research on a topic.

Understanding Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Articles - Understanding the First Page
This handout will help you understand where to find or verify all information needed for a full citation of a scholarly journal article.

Video: Academic Search Complete

Watch the video below to learn how to search Academic Search Complete.

University of British Columbia. (2015, July 15). Academic Search Complete. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEdCwq9H0LM.

Search Tips

Remember that you will need to use keywords, not full sentences, when searching the databases
Start out simple. Search using one of the main concepts (keywords) you identified
Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase, but do not put quotation marks around your entire search.

Example of a bad search using a full sentence and a good search, using keywords and short phrases

If you get too few results, use OR to broaden your search and to include related keywords. These could be broader, narrower, related terms or synonyms
If you still get too few results, try searching in a different database

Screenshot showing the use of OR to connect synonyms in a database search

If you get too many results, you will need to add in keywords representing your second concept using AND to narrow your search.

Screenshot showing a search using AND to narrow results

Last Updated: Apr 27, 2020 1:02 PM
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Subjects: Anthropology

Tags: Culture, Gender, Sexuality