ANTH 482: Anthropology of International Development

• Dr. Bryan Tilt
• Office:
  209 Waldo Hall
• Contact:
  
  Instructor's Website

• Depending on your research subject, a variety of databases--anthropology, news, business, trade--may prove useful. Here are a few suggestions.

• Abstracts in Anthropology
  An indispensable reference and research tool for all aspects of anthropology. No full text.
  Coverage Dates: 2002
• Anthrosource
  Full text access to 32 AAA journals.
  Coverage Dates: 1972
• HRAF (Human Relations Area Files) World Cultures
  Ethnographic materials useful for comparative studies within and across regions. Covers 78 selected cultures from around the world, including information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
  
• Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
  Includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, research papers, conference proceedings and other materials in all areas of food science, including food engineering, microbiology, packaging, technology and toxicology. Citations to materials on food laws, regulations and patents are also included.
  Coverage Dates: 1969 - present
• National Trade Data Bank via Stat-USA
  NTDB contains U.S. domestic and foreign economic data; import and export statistics; international energy, labor and population statistics; trade and tariff information; and information on U.S. investments and companies abroad. Includes full-text information on countries including CIA World Factbook and Dept. Of State Background Notes.
  Coverage Dates: 1998
• LexisNexis Academic
  Comprehensive index to newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV news program transcripts, legal material and other reference sources. Of interest to our class is the International news coverage and business information.
  

Use online catalogs to find books (as well as journals, multimedia, maps, and other library materials) at OSU & elsewhere.

1. Start with OSU Libraries Catalog: searches for books located at Valley Library and OSU's other libraries.

2. Next try Summit Catalog: searches our partner libraries in Oregon & Washington (indicated as Held by: Summit). Also searches other library holdings throughout the world (indicated as Held by: WorldCat Libraries). If OSU does not have the item and it is located in a Summit library, you may request it be delivered to OSU (takes about 3 business days).

3. Finally, If Summit doesn't have it we'll find a library that does-just click the Request from Interlibrary Loan button.

Search tip: Summit lets you access some journal articles. But mostly you will need to find these in databases.

Other Options: Google Book Search searches within indexes and texts of books. How much of the book you see depends on the copyright status, and on how much of their copyrighted work that authors and publishers who participate in the program will allow. For many items you can click on "Find this book in a library" to see if OSU owns a copy.This is not a complete catalog, so please check OSU and Summit catalogs, too.

When searching in catalogs and databases:

• Be creative in the words you use; if one doesn't work, try something else
• Begin with keywords, and use the subjects found in the articles that come up to find more information
• Use quotation marks around phrases
• Use catalog and database features to limit by date, language, type of article, etc.

Graduate students in this class will be required to write an annotated bibliography. For help with this, please see the online handout from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL), "Annotated Bibliographies." http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

Here is a small sample of the resources available online:

The WWW Virtual Library: International Development 

U.S. State Department Background Notes  - include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor through a combination of research and strategic outreach. 

United Nations - Human Development Reports  

United Nations Development Programme  (works best in IE)

There is a Writing Guide for the Anthropology Department on their website.

Several databases have citation help built in, but if you need help with citing other resources you find there is a Citation Builder: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php. It assits you in formating citations in APA, MLA or in the CBE/CSE formats. Be careful, however, because these are not 100% accurate--always check your citation carefully before including it.

You can also buy software to help you track your research and create bibliographies.Check out:

Refworks (http://www.refworks.com/)

EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/)

(EndNote has a web version, too: http://www.endnoteweb.com/enwebhome.asp)

Both have free trials available for download so you can try it out.

 

Librarians love questions! There are many ways to get help with your research. We are happy to help you in the way you're most comfortable with:

Phone, email, IM, or make an appointment to see the subject librarian. My IM box is on the left of the page, along with my email and phone number. Contact me with your more challenging problems!

For more general questions (Or if Valery is unavailable) contact the Reference Desk by phone, IM, email, or in person. Chat is available 24/7 through the L-Net statewide online service--always a librarian available to help you! Click the "ask a librarian" chat box on the library's main page, or visit http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/reference/ for more ways of contacting us.