Yale University Library Research Guide in General Religion

Arts & humanities citation index (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1975- .)
SML, Subject Bibliography (L&B) Z5937 +A795 (LC)
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An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science citation index and Social sciences citation index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. Published in three parts:
* Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles)
* Source Index (an author index)
* Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles)
ATLA religion database. Chicago: American Theological Library Association.
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Guide to searching ATLA
The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Though coverage is from 1949 to the present, not all publications begin in 1949.
Historical abstracts. v.1-16. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1955-1970.
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SML, D1 +H48
Under this title, coverage in Historical abstracts included journal articles, the contents of festschriften, dissertations, and book reviews concerning the history of the world from 1775-1945 (excluding the history of the United States and Canada after 1964 when America: history and life began publication). In 1971, the publication split into the following two titles and extended historical coverage both backward to 1450 and forward past 1945:
Historical abstracts. part A: modern history abstracts, 1450-1914. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1971- . v.17- .
SML, D1 +H482
Historical abstracts. part B: twentieth century abstracts, 1914- . v.17- Santa Barbara:ABC-Clio, 1971- .
SML, D1 +H483
International medieval bibliography. [Leeds, Eng.] University of Leeds [etc.] v.1- 1967- . Quarterly.
SML, Main Reference Room Z6203 I585 (LC)
Also available in the SML, CD-ROM Reference Center for the period 1984-
JSTOR: the journal storage project
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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. While, then, not technically a periodical index, JSTOR provides searchable access to the full text of 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)
Periodica Islamica : an international contents journal. v.1, no. 1- 1991- . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Berita Publishers. Quarterly.
SML, Stacks, LC Classification Z3499.9 P47 (LC)
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"[This publication] reproduces tables of contents from a wide variety of serials, periodicals and other recurring publications worldwide. These primary publications are selected for indexing ... on the basis of their [coverage of] religious, cultural, socioeconomic and political affairs of the Muslim world." (Statement on the publication's homepage: http://www.ummah.org.uk/dranees/periodica/).
Periodical contents index [computer file]. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994.
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Guide to searching PCI
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PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (which in some cases was in the 18th century) to 1990/1991. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over six million articles in 1,595 journals, and it will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles. Although not offering access by subject headings, as do most indexes, PCI does offer keyword searching, and it's possible to limit the results of searches to individual subject areas, such as religious studies. There is no printed equivalent of this index
Religion index one: periodicals. 1977- . Chicago: American Theological Library Association .
SML, Main Reference Room Z7753 +A54(LC)BR Divinity, Trowbridge Reading Room Z7753 A511 (LC)
An index to religious and archaeological periodicals, international in coverage but primarily Protestant in viewpoint. Includes author, subject, and scripture indexes. This publication supersedes the Index to religious periodical literature, which was published from 1949-1975/76, and has as companion publications Religion index two: multi-author works and the Index to book reviews in religion.
Science of religion: abstracts and index of recent articles. v.5 - 1980- . Amsterdam: Institute for the Study of Religion, Free University, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds. Quarterly.
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Z7751 S46 (LC)
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This work identifies itself as "a systematic bibliography of articles contributing to the academic study of religions" (Scope statement), covering the religions of both East and West, ancient and modern, and regularly analyzing the contents of about 250 journals. It continues the work begun by the International bibliography of the history of religions in 1954.
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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 March 9, 2001
URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/religion/islam/indexes.htm