Databases for Religion
Best Bets
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| ATLA Religion |
Provides citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and I |
1908-present |
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| Oxford Biblical Studies Online |
Texts from six Oxford Bibles (New Oxford Annotated Bible, Augmented Third Edition [NRSV], Oxford Study Bible [REB], Jewish Study Bible [TANAKH], Catholic Study Bible, Second Edition [NAB], Access B |
1720 BCE-638 CE |
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| Oxford Islamic Studies Online |
Oxford Islamic Studies Online brings together the best current scholarship in the field to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. |
Varies |
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| Philosophers Index |
Provides citations with abstracts to scholarly research in philosophy. Over 620 journals are covered, with 80 percent of the records from journals and 20 percent from books. |
1940-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda |
2000-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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