Databases for Religion or Theology
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. 1949--current | Some full text | More info |
CPLI (Catholic Periodical and Literature Index) Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 419,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers 1981--current | Citations only | More info |
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"A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. Contains more than 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts." (from EBSCO) 1985--current | Citations and abstracts only | More info |
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"A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more." 1978--current | Citations & abstracts only | More info |
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Comprehensive source for scholarly journals. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, religion, gender studies, economics, and many others. Some full text| More info |
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Full text access to high-quality, scholarly journals. Includes Currents in Biblical Research, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Feminist Theology, and more. 1999--current | Full text & abstracts |
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Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing indexing for over 8,000 journals with full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications. Covers all subjects. Some 300 journals in the areas of religion and theology. 1975--current | Some full text | More info |
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Gale®’s premier database for research in all the academic disciplines. Provides over 4,000 journal titles many of which are in full text. (from Gale's InfoTrac ) 1980--current | Some full text | More info |
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. When accessing this database through the link provided here you will find free connections to the pay for view materials that are located in our subscription sources. Just click on "Find Full Text @SMU." Some full text, some pay for view |
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Informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews. (from Sage) 1940s--current | Citations & abstracts only |
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From OCLC, the largest, most comprehensive catalog of books and other materials, with records from over 55,000 libraries worldwide. Materials found in WorldCat may be borrowed through our interlibrary loan program. Bibliographic records |
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