Yale University Library Research Guide:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

This site contains references to Western language material almost exclusively.
For vernacular language sources see the Near East Collection at Yale.

Archival and Manuscript Materials

Associations, Societies, and Centers

Bibliographies

A bibliography is "A list of works..., usually with some relationship between them, e.g. by a given author, on a given subject, or published in a given place, and differing from a catalog in that its contents are not restricted to the holdings of a single collection, library, or group of libraries." ( The ALA glossary of library and information science (Chicago: American Library Association, 1983), p.22). It differs from an index in that it usually includes entries for many, or at least several, different types of works, typically books and periodical articles, but often book chapters, dissertations, and other types of sources as well. There are several different types of bibliographies.

Biographical Sources

Book Reviews

Departments of Religious Studies

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Directories

Discussion Lists

Dissertations

Electronic Journals

Electronic Texts

General Reference and Information

Links to online general encyclopedias, books in print sites, style guides for citing electronic sources, and website evaluation.

Guides to the Literature

Narrative introductions to doing research in a given subject area, with suggestions for research approaches and introductions to the research literature and sources of the field.

Indexes and Abstracts

Indexes generally provide access to the contents of individual periodicals or newspapers, or to the contents of multiple periodicals and newspapers whose subject focus is similar. They differ from bibliographies in that fact that they contain citations to only one type of publication -- articles, book reviews, and editorials in periodicals -- rather than to a range of materials, e.g. books, articles, and maps.

Library Catalogs: Electronic and Printed

Selected Internet Resources

This section contains major gateway sites for religion in general or for specific religions, as well as a suggestions on how to keep current with new websites in religion. Sites containing specific types or forms of information have been included in the more specific sections above.

©2001 Yale University Library
YUL Research Guide in Islam
Comments and questions to Emily Horning
Prepared April 1997 by Suzanne Lorimer