The databases to the right provide references to many scholarly journal articles and papers.

• Start off with keyword searches expressing your topic.Keyword searching crosses all fields.
  
• Use Search Operators (below) to Expand or Reduce your results.
• Review those items that look relevant, then,
• Exploit the details within those entries to help lead you to other relevant articles. Pay attention to the subject headings (typically called "descriptors") to see how the database describes your topic and use them to find related articles. 
  

Note:  Always place (Terms separated by OR in parentheses)

Peer Review is the evaluation of creative work by scholars  in the same field in order to maintain or enhance the quality of the work in that field.

In the case of peer reviewed journals, which are usually academic,  peer review generally refers to the evaluation of the articles in them prior to publication. 

For more follow this link.

Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a not-for-profit membership consortium of universities, colleges, and research institutions. Its mission is to provide information that facilitates the cross-cultural study of human behavior, society and culture.

We cite sources to acknowledge the work of others, as well as to avoid academic dishonesty or plagiarism.

Laurentian's Psychology Department has made available a comprehensive set of guidelines on How NOT to Plagiarize that is based on one prepared  1998 by Margaret Procter, Coordinator of Writing Support, for distribution at the University of Toronto.  It deserves to be read by every student since at Laurentian academic dishonesty is a very serious offence.

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography manager that allows you to :

• Import references from electronic resources such as research databases or catalogues into a personal database;
• Organize the references according to your needs;
• Create a bibliography in the style of your choice;
• Export it into a file to be included with your assignment, report, or project.

You will need to sign up (using your laurentian email account) for an individual account the first time you use RefWorks

Anthropology Plus

1. Mark your records
2. Click on "Export to bibliographic software”
3. Select “RefWorks”
4. Click on “OK”
5. Login to your RefWorks account and the citations will be imported

 Abstracts in Anthropology

This database provides no exporting feature to RefWorks. Instead, the desired citations will need to be copied manually into your RefWorks account:

1. Perform your search in the database
2. Open another window in which you will connect and log in to your RefWorks account (http://refworks.scholarsportal.info)
3. In RefWorks, select "References"
4. Click on "Add New Reference"
5. You will see a list of empty fields to be filled in (for author, title, periodical, volume, pages,...)
6. Copy appropriate information from database and paste into appropriate field in RefWorks
7. When finished, click on "Save Reference"
8. Repeat steps for any citations you wish to add.

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 Annual Review of Anthropology (one citation at a time, unless browsing articles within a single issue)

1. Click on article title to view full record.
2. Click on Download to Citation Manager.
3. Select Citation and abstract for this article and RefWorks as the file format.
4. Click on Download Chapter Metadata.

 Anthrosource

1. Perform your search in the database
2. Open another window in which you will connect and log in to your RefWorks account (http://refworks.scholarsportal.info)
3. In RefWorks, select "References"
4. Click on "Add New Reference"
5. You will see a list of empty fields to be filled in (for author, title, periodical, volume, pages,...)
6. Copy appropriate information from database and paste into appropriate field in RefWorks
7. When finished, click on "Save Reference"
8. Repeat steps for any citations you wish to add

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