Anthropological Index Online
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The Anthropological Index Online http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/ is an international journal indexing service for anthropology.

The service indexes the journals received by The Anthropology Library at The British Museum (formerly at the Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. It is a collaboration between the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is the world's longest established anthropological organization, with a global membership. Since 1843, it has been at the forefront of new developments in anthropology and new means of communicating them to a broad audience...

 and the Anthropology Department, University of Kent
University of Kent
The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...

, UK. It is also available under license from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) as part of Anthropology Plus.

There are several hundred thousand records to date, the earliest from the late 1950s. Although there are few records from this early period, there are many more for recent years. Subject coverage is Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation,...

/Social Anthropology
Social anthropology
Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...

, Physical Anthropology
Physical anthropology
Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...

, Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 and Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

. The index is regularly updated.

The Index was originally made available with the financial support of the William Buller Fagg Charitable Trust and the practical support of CSAC at the University of Kent. Over the years we have received generous help from the Getty Foundation, ESRC (UK), the Mellon Trust, the Pilgrim Trust and the Marsh Christian Trust. The main work of the converting the original paper indexes to digital form was undertaken by the UK Higher Education Digitisation service (HEDS).

The data is copyright of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Use is permitted for educational non-commercial purposes (including private study). Regular or heavy educational/academic use is licensed by the payment of a subscription. Users can email sets of records returned by the search forms to themselves for import to their own bibliographies and use in citation.

There are two search pages for access to the records; one for quick search and another with more detailed options. Lists of keywords currently used and journals indexed are available. Records are available in UTF-8 (unicode) with diacritics because of the wide range of languages and transliterations used and also an ASCII version.

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An example record:

Matei Candea (2008)
Fire and identity as matters of concern in Corsica Anthropological theory 8:2 pp 201-16

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