It includes works in the major European languages. Coverage begins in 1977. Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. The title has changed slightly over the years. The catalog of Tozzer Library at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, includes regular cataloging for books and serials, but also indexes articles in the journals that the library collects.
Subject access is largely geographical with access by topic limited to very broad concepts.
See Anthropological literature for later materials. Indexes a wide variety of social sciences journals, including periodicals on anthropology. Indexing from 1983, abstracting from 1994. Social sciences citation index via Web of science Citation indexes are useful for bringing your bibliography up to date. If you know one or more key articles in your area of interest, use SSCI to find later articles that have cited those key works.