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AnthroSource puts world of research within easy reach
Northwestern University Library now subscribes to AnthroSource, an online resource created by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in partnership with the University of California Press at Berkeley (UC). AnthroSource currently provides Internet access to all 29 journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the AAA, including the complete archival holdings. It also includes seamless access to AAA journals that are part of the JSTOR archive, and to the current issues of 11 prominent AAA journals.
The full-text content of AnthroSource can be searched by author, title, keyword, phrase, and time frame. Fuzzy matching allows for more comprehensive results, while the saved search function allows users to refer back to previous searches. Users can then search within the returned results to further hone their findings.
AnthroSource also has these additional features:
•Comprehensive reference linking, by which citations in the article PDF files are dynamically linked through CrossRef to other publications, both within and beyond AnthroSource.
•Personalization, which enables users to select personal preferences for settings, organizing content, and highlighting favorite journals and articles.
•Alert options, which offer automatic email alerts including table of contents notification, saved searches, and article citation tracking.
In the next few years, the AAA-UC partnership will continue to develop the AnthroSource platform, provide enhanced functionality, and add access to other anthropological resources, including journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, audio and video files, and more.
Tom Mann