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the Web of Science and look for everything with the word ‘‘Otomí’’ in the title
or abstract. Doing this even once a year makes a big difference in your ability
to keep up with the expanding literature in every field.
Other Documentation Databases
These days, documentation is big business, and there are many indexing
and abstracting resources. Besides the Web of Science, three very important
resources for anthropologists are Anthropological Index Online (AIO),
Anthropological Literature (AL), and Abstracts in Anthropology (AIA). Other
useful databases include: International Bibliography of Anthropology, ERIC,
NTIS, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Lexis-Nexis, and
OCLC.
Anthropological Index Online
Anthropological Index (AI) began as a quarterly journal, published by the
Royal Anthropological Institute in London, and as an index of the periodicals
in Museum of Mankind Library of the British Museum. AI became an online
product in 1997 and is a free service. You’ll find AI-Online at http://aio
.anthropology.org.uk/aio/AIO.html.
AI covers the major journals for cultural anthropology and archeology, but
it also covers many journals that are not covered by any other indexing service,
especially small journals from developing nations and eastern Europe.
You’ll find articles in AI-Online from journals like the Annals of the Náprstek
Museum in Prague, the Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, in Bangalore,
and the Hong Kong Anthropology Bulletin.
Anthropological Literature
The Tozzer Library in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
at Harvard University is the largest collection of anthropological literature in
the world. Beginning in 1963, Tozzer began publishing its card catalog in a
set of 52 huge volumes (if you want to see what precomputer library technology
was like, just try to lift two or three of those volumes). At the time, the
catalog indexed 275,000 items.
In 1979, Tozzer began publishing Anthropological Literature, a quarterly
journal that indexes the books and articles that come into the library (much as
AI indexes the holdings of the Museum of Mankind Library in London). In
addition to the library’s book holdings, Anthropological Literature indexes
about 850 journals across the whole field of anthropology and in related fields