This and other research guides are on the ACC Library web page,
http://library.sunyacc.edu, under Research Guides & Tutorials.

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We also recommend consulting these ACC Library research guides:
          - Finding Information on Archaeology and Anthropology
          - Finding Information on Art and Artists,
          - Finding Information on Spanish Language and Literature,
          - Finding Information on Controversial Issues,
          - Travel Destinations: Books and Articles, and
          - Travel Destinations: Web Sites.

Make sure to consult a reference librarian at any point to save time and effort!

 Books & Videos:                 ACC Library Web page > Finding Books > Catalog

 To find books and multimedia items, search the catalog with subjects such as

To find books on two overlapping topics, use the Boolean search word and.

You may also use a wildcard ending to words (a technique called truncation) by replacing the end of the word with an asterisk. Examples: Maya* and antiquities, or Maya* and art* (art* finds art, artist, artwork, etc.) To find travel guides, use “guidebooks and”...the name of one of the countries.

Reference books:                                                     Main floor

The Complete Visitor's Guide to Mesoamerican Ruins by Joyce Kelly
Reference Collection F 1219 .K44

Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture
Reference Collection F 1210 .E63 1997

Handbook of Middle American Indians
Reference Collection F 1434 .H35

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
Reference Collection F 1406 .C36 1992

New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs
Reference Collection F 1435.3 .W75 .M33 2003

These are useful for current political and cultural information on Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico:

These reference books have archaeology and anthropology information: 

Gale Virtual Reference Library:
          This database offers full-text chapters from over 80 reference books. (The ACC Library owns many of these reference books in printed format also.) Among the 80 books it searches are: Countries and their Cultures and Geo-Data. Go to: ACC Library Web page > Finding Books > Reference > Gale Virtual Reference Library. Note: This is a subscription database. ACC students, faculty and staff may log in from off-campus with their campus network user names and passwords.

Articles and Article Databases:

The ACC Library subscribes to these anthropology and archaeology journals, located in the Periodicals area on the main floor of the library: National Geographic, Anthropology Newsletter, Cultural Anthropology, Antiquity and Archaeology. 

Use online article databases to locate articles. Which you use depend on your topic. Consult a librarian for recommendations.

To reach the online databases:
- On ACC Library’s Web page. Under Finding Articles, click on:
- General Databases (try EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database), and
- Subject Databases: AnthroSource is an excellent source for scholarly anthropology journals.
- To search these databases from home, follow screen directions to log in.

Web sites:  

Save time and effort by starting with these useful sites:

 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/index.html
From University of Minnesota of Anthropology Dept., sites and sounds of Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures

Librarians’ Internet Index
http://lii.org
This subject directory lists 20,000 quality Web sites. For many sites on Mayan culture, use these subjects to search LII.

Archaeology site at About.com: http://archaeology.about.com

 Anthropology Online, from Wadsworth Publishing Co.: news, textbook links, more:
http://thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu/discipline.do?disciplinenumber=15 

Univ. at Albany Libraries’ Anthropology Web links: http://library.albany.edu/subject/anthropology.htm

Google: http://www.google.com
This is a large search engine, but does not evaluate the quality of sites. Use Advanced Search to search with very specific terms. You may also search the Images database; use Advanced Search.  

Mexico Newspapers:

Online Newspapers:  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ (choose North America > Mexico)

Statistics:

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Web sites with current statistics on social sciences, business, science, health, demographics, more. Covers local, state, national, international statistics. From University of Michigan Documents Center.
 
Spanish lessons:

Mango Languages
http://www.mangolanguages.com/
Free online self-paced language lessons with sound. Teaches Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, more. Registration required (free).

General travel information:

See the ACC Library's Travel Destination research guides for a great deal of travel information, including currency exchange and travel insurance sites.  

Updated Nov., 2007/JM