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gists, including reports on current social issues (housing, nutrition, cultural
conservation, rural transportation). The proceedings for recognizing American
Indian tribes are published in the Congressional Record and are available
through CIS, as are reports on the demographics of American ethnic groups.
OCLC
OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/home1.htm), the Online Computer
Library Center, is the world’s largest library database. In 2005, OCLC covered
15,000 journals and had bibliographic records for over 56 million books—and
was growing fast. If you find a book or article in the Web of Science or Psyc-
INFO, etc., and your library doesn’t have it, then the OCLC will tell you which
library does have it. Interlibrary loans depend on OCLC. The components of
OCLC include WorldCat (the world catalog of books) for books and Article
First (for journals).
Some Additional Websites
In addition to the usual library documentation resources, many super information
resources of interest to anthropologists are available through the
Internet pages of international organizations. A good place to start is the University
of Michigan Document Center’s page, called ‘‘International Agencies
and Information on the Web’’ at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html.
This page will point you to the big meta-sites that list the websites for thousands
of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (widely
known as IGOs and NGOs). The Union of International Associations’ guide
to IGOs and NGOs, for example, lists thousands of sites. It’s at http://www
.uia.org/website.htm.
The Michigan Documents Center site will also point you to dozens of international
agency sites, places like the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
UN, with many full-text reports on its projects since 1986. Interested in
‘‘shrimp aquaculture’’? Go to FAO’s archiving site at http://www.fao.org/
documents/ and type that phrase into the search engine to find reports on local
farming practices. Go to the site of the United Nations High Commission on
Refugees (UNHCR) at http://www.unhcr.ch/ for the latest statistics on the refugees
around the world. Go to the site of the Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO) at http://www.paho.org/ for the latest statistics on health indicators
for countries in North and South America.
There is a world of high-quality documents available on the Internet. No
search of the literature is now complete without combing through those
resources. The Anthropology Review Database at http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/