Anthropological Index Online

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The Anthropological Index Online is an online bibliographic index which catalogues the contents of anthropology journals in The Centre for Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly the Museum of Mankind Library, incorporating the Royal Anthropological Institute Library) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Controlled vocabulary
Author or Editor: 
David Zeitlyn, Max Carocci and Janet Bagg
Current version date: 
Thu, 2009-06-04
Vocabulary URL: 

http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/Intro.html

Vocabulary Sample URL: 

http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/listjnls/getKeywords.php

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
No
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

English

Major subjects covered: 

anthropologic topics, places, ethnic groups

Purpose: 

Library catalogues (and online services such as Amazon) only catalogue book authors and journal titles, not the authors and titles of journal articles. In response to this various bibliographic indexes such as the Citation Indexes ( nowWeb of Science/Web of Knowledge), IBSS and the Anthropological Index were developed as paper publications in the days before the Internet. Although the main academic journals, such as JRAI and American Anthropologist, are now published electronically so their contents are searchable via services such as Google Scholar, many are not especially the journals from Eastern Europe and the Developing World which are among the strengths of the Anthropology Library holdings.

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Alphabetical list
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Equivalence (Language or dialect)
Number of classes: 

4

Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
free for the purposes of academic and private research to individuals and educational institutions in the developing world
Comments, Availability: 

see http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/conditions.html
The Anthropological Index Online has been made available with the financial support of the William Buller Fagg Charitable Trust and the practical support of CSAC at the University of Kent.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
British Museum
Provider URL: 

http://www.britishmuseum.org

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