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Databases

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

ATLA Religion Serials Plus  

ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.3 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, more than 423,000 book review citations. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association. 

ATLA Instructional Video 

JSTOR

JSTOR Religion and Theology Collection covers the history and philosophy of religious thought spanning traditions, periods, and critical approaches. The collection contains more than 80 titles drawn exclusively from existing JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections.

Library of Latin Texts – online (LLT-O)

The Library of Latin Texts (LLT) is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It gathers Latin texts of all genres and all periods. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions.

Sources Chrétiennes Online

“Sources Chrétiennes Online” forms the digital, searchable counterpart to the well-known “Sources Chrétiennes” series, based in Lyon and published by Éditions du Cerf, Paris. By 2025, the database will incorporate the source texts from the more than 600 printed volumes, in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian, sided by French translations and allowing for targeted and filtered searches.

New Testament Abstracts

NTA Online is produced by ATLA in partnership with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Abstracts are in English. NTA offers more than 38,000 articles and more than 13,500 book summaries.

Old Testament Abstracts

Old Testament Abstracts is a comprehensive reference tool designed to support Old Testament Studies scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Old Testament Abstracts on CD-ROM contains more than 35,000 abstracts of journal articles, books, essays and software.

Philosopher’s Index

The Philosopher’s Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. 1940-

 

MULTIPLE SUBJECT DATABASES

Academic Search Complete

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.

 OTHER DATABASES

Books in Print with Reviews

Books In Print® with Book Reviews provides easy access to crucial information on the U.S. book publishing industry with more than 500,000 full-text reviews from more than a dozen of the most respected sources, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, CHOICE, Reference and Research Book News, Sci-Tech Book News, University Press Book News, The Horn Book, The Boston Book Review, and Quill & Quire. Plus, there’s a notation if a title has been reviewed in key publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and 8 others. Updated monthly.

Gale Book Review Index Plus

Containing the entire backfile of Book Review Index print content from 1965 to the present, Book Review Index Online is unparalleled in scope, with more than 5.6 million reviews on more than 2.5 million titles.

Business Source Premier

This is the industry’s most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,200 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.

ERIC

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Source: Nursing

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Literature Online

ProQuest® Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 357,250 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference.

MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals and series, as well as book publishers.

OCLC DATABASES

ArticleFirst

OCLC index of articles from the content pages of journals.

ClasePeriodica

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

Ebooks

OCLC catalogue of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

ECO

An OCLC collection of scholarly journals.

GPO

An index of U.S. Government publications.

MEDLINE

All areas of medicine including dentistry and nursing.

OAIster

The union catalogue of digital resources.

PapersFirst

OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Proceedings

An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

WorldCatDissertations

A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.

WorldCat First Search

Catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide.