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These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
Academic Search Complete      Remote Access
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Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.

Anthropological Index Online
Search bibliographic references to over 700 periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). References are available for periodicals from the 1970s to present, with a limited amount of data provided for the late 1960s.

Archaeology Data Service: ArchSearch
The Digital Library contains " the first 22 volumes in the Council for British Archaeology's Research Report series, held in PDF format, including such important titles as " The Iron Age in the Irish Sea Province " edited by Charles Thomas, Philip Rahtz's " Excavations at St Mary's Church Deerhurst ", Richard Reece's edited volume on " Burial in the Roman World ", and many, many more. These volumes have been out of print for years although many are still key books on reading lists. Now they are available to all on-line. The first 15 volumes in the CBA's Occasional Papers series, again as PDF files. This series includes seminal titles in the history of British Archaeology, such as 'The Erosion of History'. ... Also in the ADS Library you will find a comprehensive index to archaeological electronic journals, plus an on-line report on excavations in Cyprus, publications about NERC's Ancient Biomolecules Initiatives and, in the bibliographies section, old favourites including the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography."

Cave of Lascaux
A website devoted to the geological and historical circumstances of the cave and a virtual visit.

Google Scholar      Remote Access
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Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines

JSTOR      Remote Access
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A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
This page contains " a relational database of glyphs ("g numbers "), images, phonetic values (" pvalues "), and semantic values (" svalues ") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994). Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts."

National Archeological Database Reports
Searchable bibliographic database of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning

Perseus Project
Detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome including an atlas and encyclopedia.

Project Muse      Remote Access
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Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.


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