Kutztown University's
Online Index to the
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
(Old Series)
Purposes
The Kutztown University AJPA
Index has been placed online to make electronic searches possible. Indices in book form have been
published already, but those books are long out of print and they do not allow
us to search the entire Old Series with a few keystrokes.
It is hoped that this index
will facilitate historical research on the development of physical
anthropology, allowing us to trace changing attitudes and areas of interest or
technological and methodological improvements. It should also help with literature reviews, to put modern
research in perspective and to avoid repetition of effort. Finally, many articles, such as those
on primate anatomy and fossil hominids, will always be useful to physical
anthropologists.
Description of this index
This index covers only the Old Series of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Each web page in this index is a modified copy of the index at the end of a volume of the AJPA. The earliest volumes combined the literature index and the subject/author index, but later volumes separated the literature into its own index, immediately following the subject/author index. At this time, only the subject/author and combined indices are available here.
The modifications made to the printed indices include: some reformatting of the text to a standard format; spelling corrections and interpretations; and the addition of the volume number and year to the end of each entry. The text was reformatted to remove ellipses and all entries are in a single column per page. All text is in the same font and the same size. Spelling corrections were made when it was certain that a word or name was misspelled. However, older names for places, anatomical terms, etc., were usually left unaltered. Hence, “Camerun” and “Macacus” were generally not replaced by “Cameroon” and “Macaca.” Only a few such ‘modernizations’ were made, to assist users of this index. This means that a certain level of familiarity with the history of naming in physical anthropology may be required for effective searches. Other changes include the removal of diacritics. For example, the founder of the AAPA is spelled “Ales Hrdlicka”, without the haceks. There are no umlauts, grave accents, etc. In many volumes, the names of authors were fully capitalized (e.g., “SCHULTZ”), whereas subject entries had initial capitals only (e.g., “Arboreal”). That style has generally been preserved here.
How do I search the
index?
Currently, there is no search
engine enabled for all 29 indices presented at this website. Therefore, you can search each volume
by going to its webpage and using the text search function in your web
browser. Alternatively, you can go
to the page for each volume, select all the text, copy it, paste it together
with all the other pages into a word processing document, and search the
document with your word processor.
This is feasible, because each entry on every page ends with the volume
number and year(s).
In the future, I hope to have
a search engine installed on this page.
How do I get an article
from the Old Series AJPA?
Academic libraries
(universities and colleges) often have the AJPA on their shelves, but many have
only partial holdings and these are usually of the New Series. It is much less common for public
libraries to have any volumes of the AJPA, though the larger ones sometimes
do. See your inter-library loan
officer (or perhaps a reference librarian) about having a specific article
photocopied and sent to you.
Depending on your library's policies and their relationship with the
other library where a photocopy is made, there may be a fee for photocopying.
Where can I browse the
Old Series AJPA?
Your own institution may not
have copies of the early years of the AJPA (1918-1942). To check other libraries in your area
for copies of the Old Series, see your reference librarian or inter-library
loan officer. Many libraries in
the U.S. and around the world have access to the OCLC (Online Computer Library
Center), an online database of library holdings throughout the world. To search for the Old Series AJPA, use
the OCLC number (1480176) or the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (0002-9483).
Your librarian can restrict the search to libraries in your region, but
each listing in the results must be checked to see if the Old Series AJPA is
included in the holdings, because there are no separate code numbers for the
Old and New Series.
Where can I search for articles in the New Series?
The New Series AJPA begins with Volume 1, 1943, and continues to the present. The most recent years are available online at Wiley-Liss (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/advancedsearch), where you can find title, author, keywords, bibliographic information and abstracts, since Vol. 80, 1996. Earlier years of the New Series (before 1996) may be available by subscription through such services as Biological Abstracts, or through meta-indices such as Academic Premier or Infotrac. However, most of these do not provide searches for years before 1996, in electronic form.
I have requested permission to publish the indices from the early years of the New Series, but have not yet received it. When and if I do, they will be added to this site.
Browse the Indices
Contact the Author (David Webb)
If you have any comments or
suggestions, or would like to report any errors, please contact me: mailto:webb@kutztown.edu.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., the current publishers of the AJPA, for permission to
publish this index online. Special
thanks go to Rachel Smaltz of the Permissions Department, for her services as
liaison. I would also like to
thank Kurt Winkelman, Director of High Density Storage at the University of
Pennsylvania Libraries, for access to the original volumes. The hit counter is provided by www.digits.com. Finally, thanks go to Matt McKiernan, Kutztown University
Webmaster, and his staff for all their help in webpage development.
Last updated: June, 2003