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A selection of about 20 titles in general anthropology and the four subfields (archaeology, biological, cultural, linguistics). JSTOR and AnthroSource include the biggest sets of relevant full text journals for the field. Note that complete, current information is found most reliably in the library catalog. Feel free to comment and suggest a key title in your own area of specialization (at the subfield level for this general page).

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I'm frequently asked to recommend a citation manager software package. My personal experience is limited, dated and frankly was not at all positive. I'm sure they've improved a great deal since I last tried any of them out, but the blog post linked below indicates that they're still not perfect and don't work for everyone.

My best advice is to try out several current applications and use what works best for what you do, what's easiest or most intuitive for your approach and perhaps most importantly be willing to either pay for the best software available for your situation or to scrap the whole idea if it's not working for you. Don't spend more time managing software than you do pursuing your primary work.

I'm currently experimenting with Zotero, mentioned in the post linked below, an open source alternative. It recently faced a lawsuit by Thomson Reuters (EndNote is their product and has dominated the academic market for years) but a judge dismissed the case in June 2009, leaving the open source company in the clear (unless there's an appeal). UF affiliated users have had free access to RefWorks for several years; it's owned by the publisher of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). It's worth remembering that most commercial citation managers are owned by the major database portals/index database search interface publishers and are tweaked to work best with their own sites (or cites--ewww bad pun). Some might even say tweaked to not work too well with their competition, but I won't go that far myself.

The blog post linked below is very informative. Take a look if you're thinking about adopting any bibliographic citation manager software.