LibGuides: Anthropology: Physical Anth / Forensics

Additional databases and online resources for physical anthropology

Biology: The eSkeletons Project
A website with digitized images and animations of human and primate skeletons for the study of comparative anatomy. Students can view regions of skeletons from any orientation as well as muscle and joint information. Browser plugins may be required for optimal viewing.
Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest)
A comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Bridges theory with practice by providing information geared to those interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security; as well as scholars and other researchers who study the causes, trends, and societal impacts of crime.
MEDLINE (at EBSCOhost)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. 1960 to present.
PubMed
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Biological Science Database (ProQuest)
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes just under 400 titles, with more than 325 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.

Smithsonian Humans Origins Exhibit
Digital exhibit of information about hominid evolution, including multimedia resources like 3-D images of artifacts, as well as articles on recent hot topics in paleoanthropology.

ScienceDirect/IDEAL
Full-Text Journal Articles from Elsevier, one of the most prominent science publishers

Professional Associations

These are listed alphabetically.

National Organizations

American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)

Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)

Paleoanthropology Society

Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci)