Googling AnthroSource

Want an article fast? It turns out that Google is indexing AnthroSource.

Try this trick.

In Google search for:

site:.anthrosource.net [YOUR SEARCH]

Where [YOUR SEARCH] is anything you want. For instance, to find articles about Taiwan’s Aborigines you could do this search:

site:.anthrosource.net Taiwan Aborigines

That gives you 53 results, with each result being a direct link to a PDF file. If you have already logged in to AnthroSource it will bring you right to the file.

The only downside to this method is that you can’t easily navigate to the citation page in AnthroSource if you were looking for that (as opposed to the article itself). The only trick I’ve found is that if you look at the URL for the PDF and replace “pdfplus” with “abs” you will get the citation page. For items archived on JSTOR however, Google will link you directly to the AnthroSource citation page instead of the PDF.

UPDATE: I tried posting some javascript bookmarklets that would save time with your search, but WordPress seems to break the code. Unfortunately I don’t have time to fix this, but you can look at these handy bookmarklets on the Distant Librarian’s blog to see how they would work.

P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.