Content includes scholarly articles representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups. Full-text limited; ask a librarian for help getting a PDF.
Full-text of scholarly journals from many fields with a good religion collection. Coverage only goes to within 2-5 years of the present, so other databases are preferred for current articles.
International bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies. Includes some full-text, but most results will require using interlibrary loan or Google Scholar.
Full-text to about 250 scholarly journals, in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Biological Sciences, 1993–present.
Find more database options on the Cross-Discipline Database tab. History, sociology, and philosophy often incorporate some study of religion.
Find links to religious texts for each religion in this guide on the relevant sub-page. Having trouble finding texts from other religions? Ask a librarian for help!
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. For full-text PDFs ask a librarian about interlibrary loan.
Content Includes: indexing for over 1,800 journals from 1895 to the present; citations and links to books and media reviews; and coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The authoritative database for sociology research. Topics include gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work.
The most thorough index of journal literature on philosophy. For full-text ask a librarian about finding access.
Content Includes
Nearly 700,000 records
Indexed articles from more than 1,850 journals
More than 740 journals come from more than 450 publishers
More than 1,200 journals are regularly indexed
Works on philosophy from both philosophy and interdisciplinary sources
More than 13,000 dissertations dating back to 1743 are in the process of being added
Prepared by and for Philosophers
Relevant data: philosophers pre-screen potential source documents for their relevance to the field of philosophy to minimize extraneous data
Consistent indexing: a small team of twelve philosophers index the work using a custom, standardized thesaurus. Keywords are assigned for all records (except book reviews) using the standardized thesaurus, which contains more than 15,000 subject headings and 40,000 names of philosophers
Consistent data entry: The Philosopher's Index staff enters all data into the database
Unique data: staff performs a check for duplicate records and removes duplicates
High-quality data: enables high-quality search results
Subjects Include
Aesthetics
Axiology
Epistemology
Ethics
Logic
A full-text research database covering political topics with a worldwide focus, including international relations, political theory and comparative politics.
Content Includes
More than 470 active full-text, non-open access journals
More than 320 full-text reference books and monographs
Nearly 48,000 full-text conference papers
A subject-specific thesaurus of more than 26,000 terms
Subjects Include
Comparative politics
Humanitarian issues
International relations
Law and legislation
Non-governmental organizations
Political theory
Streaming video content. More than half is contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s that capture history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time.
American History in Video includes hundreds of the documentaries most frequently used in history classrooms, from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Bullfrog Films, Documentary Educational Resources, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, The History Channel®, and others. Featuring dramatic reenactments and engaging analysis from prominent scholars and experts, these documentaries bring history alive for students and give public library patrons hundreds of educational video titles they can enjoy from home. Learn about the Battle of Gettysburg from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson. Understand the scope and legacy of the American Civil War with Ken Burns’ riveting PBS series. Grasp the zeitgeist of an era through PBS’s Summer of Love, Ken Burns' The West, and Africans in America.
Digital library of resources on theology and religion. Books, journals, audio, photographs, manuscripts, and other formats dating from 975 C.E. to the present.
Presents ways for scholars to examine data about religious adherence across the US by major denominational groups at varying scales and with multiple dimensions.
