Scope
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute databases. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, biological anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and linguistic anthropology. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.

Coverage
Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

Search Options
There are three ways to search: simple, advanced, and command-line.

Simple Searches
You can enter a keyword, author, title word, subject word or journal search from the Home screen or any result display screen.

1 Click on your choice of search.  Choices include:  Keyword, Author, Title Word or Subject Word. 
2. Type your search text in the open box.
3. Press Enter or click Search
4. To clear out an existing search, click Clear.
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Advanced Searches
The Advanced Search screen offers more ways to search authors, titles, subjects and journals, and offers Boolean searching.

Click the Advanced Search link:

1.Choose an index from the first list. (Indexes include:  Keyword, Author, Author Word, Title, Title Word.)
2.Type your search term in the first text box.
3. If you don't need a second search term, press Enter or click Search.
4.To include a second search term, choose And, Or, or Not for your Boolean operator.
5.Choose a second index and type your search term in the second text box. (Indexes include:  Keyword, Author, Author Word, Title, Title Word.)
6.Press Enter or click Search.

OR To limit your search, choose one of the Limit options for this database, and then press Enter. To start over, click Clear to erase all search types and text boxes.

NOTE:  The database does not provide a Language limit. 

Command Line Searching
Command Line provides another way to search for users who are familiar with Eureka Command Line syntax. I do not recommend this search method.  It is easier to use the structured Simple or Advanced options.
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Truncation and Punctuation
The question mark "?" works as a truncation symbol. If you're not sure of the spelling of a word or the exact form of a term (when using more than one index), try adding the question mark.

• Punctuation can be included in your search terms.
• The database is not case sensitive.

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Finding Subjects or Topics
Keyword is the broadest form of subject searches. It searches for distinctive words in either titles, subject headings, or author names (for example, dinosaur). You can search by two or more keywords, either by using words in the same search box ("and" is implied), in which case your search terms must occur in the same index, or by using Boolean operators with the two search boxes on the Advanced Search screen. Use truncation for better search results.

Use Subject Word to limit your search for distinctive words within subject headings (for example, polymorphism). If more than one subject heading includes your word(s), you will see a list of all matching subjects with record counts for each subject. If only one subject includes your word(s), or multiple words appear across different subjects within the same records, you will see a Record List of all records containing those subjects (or the Full display if only one record matches). If you know the beginning of a desired subject, consider using Subject instead.

Subject, on the Advanced Search screen, limits your search to specific subjects or descriptors (for example, gibbons - behavior). Anthropology Plus uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. Subject searches lead to an alphabetic list of all subjects used in Anthropology Plus with a record count for each subject. The subject nearest your search appears on the third line. You can click on a single subject to retrieve records or choose more than one subject and go directly to your choice of record display.

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Finding Titles
Use Title Word to locate distinctive words in titles (for example, jinglebobs). Most titles are journal articles or journal names. If more than one title includes your word(s), you will see a list of all matching titles with record counts for each title. If only one title includes your word(s), you will see a Record List of all records for that title (or the Full display if only one record matches).

If you know the exact form of an article title or journal name (or at least the first words), use Title on the Advanced Search screen (for example, hollywood). Omit the first word if it is an initial article.

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Finding Journal Titles
Use Journal to locate all records from a particular journal, if you know the exact title of the journal (for example, paideuma). Omit the first word if it is an initial article.

If Journal does not yield a result, you might check the list of journals.

If you know the beginning of the journal name but are unsure of the full form used in Anthropology Plus, try a Title search on the Advanced Search screen (for example, cahiers), which yields a list of all titles (including all journal titles).
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Finding Authors
Authors include individual authors, corporate authors, and/or other persons or institutions responsible for the work. The Author index will search on the exact author name as it has been entered while the Author Word index searches for your search term anywhere it occurs in the author name.

Use Author to search for an individual author by entering the person's last name then first name or initial, separated by a comma (for example, biehl, p or biehl, peter).

If you are unsure of the form of an author's name (for example, xirotiris), use Author Word on the Advanced Search screen.

If more than one author name includes the word(s) you use, you will see a list of all matching authors with record counts for each author. If only one author includes your word(s), you will see a Record List of all records for that author (or the Full display if only one record matches).
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Narrowing Results
You may reduce the size of a search result in three ways:

1.Limit narrows results of 10,000 records or less by Date or Other (including contents of notes).

2.Refine may be used on results of more than 100 records, allowing you to add one or two more search terms to narrow your result.

3.Previous Searches, at the top of most screens, allows you to combine two or more result sets, yielding only those records in all sets of results. For Limit and Refine, note that you must first have a set of records (a Record List, Brief, or Full display). If your Author Word, Title Word, or Subject Word search retrieved a list of authors, titles, or subjects, the All button will turn that list into a list of all records satisfying your search.

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Sorting Results
Result sets of 250 or fewer records are sorted by year (most recent first) and by author and title within a year. You can re-sort a result set by clicking on Author, Title, or Year at the top of the list. Click Preferences (on the blue bar at the top of the screen) to change the sort order. Any changes made, however, apply to subsequent searches only.

Printing or E-Mailing Results
You should be able to print, e-mail, or download any Eureka screen directly using browser functions. Eureka also provides special functions to e-mail or print selected sets of records.

• You may check up to 50 records within a List, across more than one screen, to e-mail or print.
• If you do not check any records before clicking E-mail or Print, Eureka will assume that you want all records displayed on the current screen.
• Click Preferences to set your preferred e-mail or print format and to enter an e-mail address to be used throughout a session.
• If no preferences have been set, Eureka will prompt you for an e-mail address each time you click E-mail and will use the current display format for e-mail or print.
• When you click Print, formatted records will appear in a new window. You may then use your browser to print or download the records.
• E-mailed and printed records include only Latin scripts.

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E-mail and Print Formats
The Preferences screen includes the following formats for e-mail and print:

• Full includes complete author, title, and publication date, and may include publishing details, locations, multiple subject headings, and added authors.
• Use Full with locations in the RLG Union Catalog to include a list of institutional locations for each record. This format replicates the Full display, adding a list of institutions at the end.
• Brief contains citation information and includes any summaries and abstracts.
• Use Brief with locations in the RLG Union Catalog to add a list of institutional locations to the Brief version of each record.
  
• EndNote native format: E-mailed or downloaded records may be imported directly into EndNote without translation. Some processing is required:
  1.Use a word processor to remove any extra lines from the beginning and end of the file.
  2.Choose Import from EndNote's File menu, choose "Refer/BibIX", and select No translation.
  
• Procite native format: E-mailed or downloaded records may be imported directly into Procite without translation. Some processing is required.  After you download ProCite-formatted records, use the search and replace feature in a word processor to: 
  1.Remove any extra lines from the beginning and end of the file.
  2.Delete all hard returns (also called "paragraph marks"), since ProCite uses these as end-of-record markers. The documentation for your word processor explains how to search for and delete hard returns or paragraph marks.
  3.Replace Eureka's own end-of-record markerÄa hyphen, followed by three number symbols followed by a hyphen, -###- with a hard return or paragraph mark
  4.Choose Import Text File from ProCite's Tools menu and identify the modified Eureka export file to be imported. Verify that ProCite has set options based on the contents of the file.

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Saving and Viewing Saved Records

You can save individual records in order to combine records from more than one result. You can also store sets of saved records across Eureka sessions and make them available to other users. You do not need to save records in order to e-mail or print them.

• To save a record, click Save on the Full display. A confirmation window will appear.
• To view saved records, click Saved in the blue bar at the top of every screen. The set of saved records from this database will appear as a new result set.
• To remove a record from the set of saved records, click UnSave on the Full display, which replaces Save when you're viewing saved records.
• You may print or e-mail saved records as you would records in any other result set.

When you click Saved, you will see two additional links along with your saved set: Name this set and View other sets. (If you click Saved and have not yet saved any records, you'll see a window noting that fact and offering a "View" link.)

• To retain a set of saved records across sessions, click Name this set. You will be prompted for a password and name for the saved set. Once you have done this, click Create to save the named set. Remember your password as it is the only way to retrieve the set.
• To view a saved set, click View other sets or View, then enter the password in the popup window and click Search. If saved sets are available, you will see a list of sets to choose from.
• Anyone with access to this database may view a saved set if you give them the name and password.
• In all cases, you can only view records saved from a database when you're in that database.

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Copyright Notice
The Anthropology Plus database comprises copyrighted files of the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Royal Anthropological Institute and/or their suppliers. Users of the Anthropology Plus database may reproduce a single copy of any record retrieved online, provided such copy is used solely for private study, scholarship, research, or information. Under no circumstances may users store any record(s) electronically for the purposes of resale, redistribution, or performing on-going searching.

This page created by
Susan Luévano, Librarian
University Library, California State University, Long Beach
April 2003