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Databases

Databases of the University of Cologne, Subject Ethnologie

EVIFA (Virtuelle Fachbibliothek der ethnologischen Fächer)
Videos about EVIFA’s offerings and services and about using the EVIFA search function

Academic Search Ultimate (via EBSCO-HOST)
A multidisciplinary database containing more than 9,000 full-text journals and abstracts from more than 13,800 journals.

Anthropological Fieldwork Online 
Umfangreiche Feldforschungsmaterialien, die den großen Ethnographien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zugrundeliegen, und primäre Quelltexte zentraler WissenschaftlerInnen, deren Theorien und Methoden noch heute prägend für die Lehre und Diskussionen im Fach sind.

Anthropology Online 
Extensive field research materials that form the basis of the major ethnographies of the early 20th century, and primary source texts by leading scholars whose theories and methods continue to shape teaching and scholarly discourse in the field today.

JSTOR
Journals from their first volume up to a so-called "moving wall" (depending on the title, up to 11 years prior to the current volume).

OLC-SSG Ethnologie (Online Contents Sondersammelgebiete) 
Tables of contents for ethnological journals from 1993 onwards. No abstracts are provided, but you can check for online access to the full text and the journal’s location.

Web of Science/Social Sciences Citation Index
An article database containing over 3.45 million entries, covering all fields of the social sciences, including the related disciplines of social medicine and psychology, which have a scientific focus.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
The world’s largest database and most comprehensive source on theoretical and practical issues in international relations, featuring research findings on topics in international political science, diplomacy, geography, and international law and economics.

eHRAF World Cultures 
Indexing of over 200 peoples or ethnic groups based on various sources (ethnographic monographs, essays and field research data published in manuscripts).

WAO - World Affairs Online
WAO – World Affairs Online is one of Europe’s largest social science databases, containing over 1 million bibliographic records, primarily journal and book articles, grey literature and freely available full-text electronic documents.