YUL Research Guide in Islam

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Research Guide in General Religion

Gateway sites
ARL Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters, 6th Edition: This publication of the Association of Research Libraries currently includes entries for almost 1700 electronic journals and newsletters, with annotations, arranged alphabetically with no subject index.
The CIC electronic journals collection: "[This is the] Committee on Institutional Cooperation's (CIC) Electronic Journals Collection (EJC), a prototype electronic journal management system coordinated by the librarians of the CIC member universities [the Big Ten universities, Penn State, and the University of Chicago], and the staffs of CICNet, Inc. and the CIC. Ultimately, this collection aims to be an authoritative source of electronic research and academic serial publications -- incorporating all freely distributed scholarly electronic journals available online."
E-JOURNAL (WWW Virtual Library)
E-journals and electronic newsletters in religion (from John Gresham's Finding God in Cyberspace)
NewJour: electronic journals and newsletters: "This is the archive for NewJour, the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet." It indexes announcements concerning new e-journals in all subjects but offers the capability to search the full text of individual announcements for words or subjects of interest.
Online books, journals, and reviews (from TELA: the electronically linked academy)
JSTOR: the journal storage project: This project has undertaken to digitize the articles in selected scholarly journals in several disciplines and to make them searchable and readable on the World Wide Web. It provides searchable access to the full text of articles in individual journals over the complete history of their publication. Those of interest to religion are currently in the field of history and include the American historical review (v.1-94, 1895-1989); the Journal of American history( v.51-76, 1964-1990); the Journal of Modern History (v.1-62, 1929-1990); the Mississippi Valley historical review (v.1-50, 1914-1964)(continued by the Journal of American history); Speculum: a journal of mediaeval studies (v.1-64, 1926-1989); and the William and Mary quarterly (Series 1: v.1-27, 1892-1919; Series 2: v.1-23, 1921-1943;Series 3: v.1-46, 1944-1989)
Individual titles
Marburg journal of religion (v.1- April 1996- )(Phillips-Universitat, Marburg): A refereed journal, "...devoted to religion and to [related] issues which arise", containing both articles and book reviews. It is published only electronically.
Offline:religious studies news: "The goal of Offline is to provide readers with information related to computers and their use that will help them in the classroom, study, or parish; that will inspire new ideas and avenues of investigation; or that will pique their interest." The website, Finding God in Cyberspace, calls this site "the best resource for keeping informed about new digital resources in religious studies."

Yale University Library YUL Research Guide in Islam
Prepared October 1997 by Suzanne Lorimer Copyright (C) 1997, Yale University. All rights reserved.
Comments and questions to Emily Horning
Last updated February 6, 2001
URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/religion/islam/ejrnls.htm