Research Tools

American Religion Data Archive (ARDA).

Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

AIDA (Articoli italiani di periodici accademici), 1997-present.

This database indexes over 100,000 journal articles from nearly 1,000 Italian journals covering the humanities and social sciences. AIDA's coverage of the Italian academic press is more extensive than the coverage offered by IBZ, and the cooperation of Italian librarians ensures that the journals indexed in AIDA represent the current Italian literature in the humanities.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1975-.)

SML, Subject Bibliography (L&B) Z5937 +A795 (LC)
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.

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.

Australasian Religion Index. v. 1, no. 1 (June 1989)- . Wagga Wagga, NSW [Australia] : Australasian [i.e.Australian] and New Zealand Theological Library Association; and Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University. Semi-annual (the second issue being cumulative for the year)

Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Z7753 A9 (LC)

Includes citations to articles and book reviews from religious periodicals published in and representative of the religions of Australia and New Zealand. With author, subject, scripture passage, and book review indexes.

Brepolis Medieval Studies Resources.

Includes the following databases:
Europa Sacra. Guide to dioceses and prelates.
In principio. Incipit of Latin texts.
International Medieval Bibliography (also listed below)
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
Ut per litteras apostolicas. Papal Letters.
Vetus Latina. Bible Versions of the Latin fathers.

The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index. Haverford, PA : Catholic Library Association. v.14- 1967.68- . Quarterly, including annual cumulation.

SML, Subject Bibliography AI3 +C32 (LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room AI3 C32 (LC)
Also on CD-ROM at Divinity Reserve ( covers 1991-1994/5)

This index was formed by the merger of two earlier titles whose combined dates of publication cover publication over much of the 20th century: The Catholic periodical index, published 1930/33-1965/66, and The guide to Catholic literature, published 1888/1940-1964/65.

Christian Periodical Index. v.1- , 1956/60- . Cedarville, OH: Christian Librarians Fellowship. Quarterly with annual and triennial cumulations.

Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Z7753 C5(LC)

Indexes (by author and subject) about 95 evangelical and fundamentalist periodicals, primarily from the United States. Includes book and media reviews as well as articles.

Classic Protestant Texts Online.

Gives researchers access to more than 1,500 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. These works include the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations.

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation.

The database offers a constantly growing treasury of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints’ lives, and devotional works.

Early English Books Online.

Based on the Bell & Howell microfilm collections Early English Books 1475-1640 and Early English Books 1641-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Digital images of English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science. The titles in the first release concern subjects in History and Geography.

Evans Digital Edition.

Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of over 36,000 works issued in America from 1639 to 1800.

FRANCIS.

FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). The database is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.

Humanities Index. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1975-.

SML, Subject Bibliography AI1 H84 (LC)
Divinity Library, Stack Reference AI3 R491 (LC)
Index with good coverage of religion and folklore. The online version (Humanities Abstracts Full Text) includes abstracts of articles 1984-present and full-text 1995-present.

Index to Jewish periodicals. Cleveland Heights, OH : College of Jewish Studies Press. v.1 , June/Aug. 1963- .

SML, Subject Bibliography Z6367 +I5 (LC)
Divinity Library, Stack Reference Oversize Z6367 I5 (LC)

International Index to Black Periodicals. 1910-present.

Indexes articles in 150 international scholarly and popular Black studies periodicals covering a wide variety of fields.

International Medieval Bibliography

Covers the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500) providing the entire run of the print copy of the IMB from 1968-2000, with articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

JSTOR: the journal storage project

Guide to searching JSTOR

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).

19th Century Masterfile

Accumulation of indices to printed materials from the nineteenth century. Incudes the Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899).

Oxford Reference Online

The Core Collection brings together over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. It contains over 2 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations. It is also possible to search each title in the collection individually.

Past Masters

Full-text, searchable versions of many important philosophical writings, including the works of Aquinas, Aristotle, Calvin, Hume, Kierkegaard, Locke, Luther, Plato, Wittgenstein and others.

Religion & Philosophy Collection

Comprehensive database with nearly 250 full text journals covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Periodical Contents Index. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994.

Connect to a list of religious studies journals in PCI

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.

Religious and Theological Abstracts. Mysterton, PA : Theological Pub., 1958- . Quarterly.

Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room BR1 R286
Also available as:

R & TA on CD-ROM [computer file] : Religious and Theological Abstracts. Myerstown, Pa. : Religious and Theological Abstracts, Inc.; Scarborough, Canada : Innotech Find It, [1990?]- . Annual

Divinity Library, Networked workstations

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)
SML, Main Reference Room

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.

WilsonWeb. New York: H.W. Wilson.

WilsonWeb Quick Reference Guide

WilsonWeb is a collection of periodical indexing databases covering the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. You can search the databases separately, or use WilsonWeb's Check Relevant Databases feature at the bottom of the initial search screen to search across multiple databases simultaneously.