Guides: Religious Studies: Articles & Journals

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Liaison Librarian for Religious Studies

Lindsey MacCallum

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Subjects: Cultural Studies, English Literature, History

Frequently used article databases

EBSCO Databases
Collection of all databases provided by EBSCO. You may select which databases you wish to include in your search. Databases include: Academic Source Premier, AgeLine, Agricola, Humanities International Complete, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Medline,and ERIC.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
8000 journals indexed/abstracted (4600 full-text) in various disciplines
Periodicals Archive Online (CRKN - ProQuest)
Periodicals Archive Online is a full-text journal archive covering close to 500 titles in the humanities and the social sciences with an emphasis on access to the backfiles of key academic journals.
CBCA Complete (ProQuest)
With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,680 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and education as produced in Canada. Includes 640 full-text periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). Updated daily with full-text content (1985 to present) and bibliographic content (1971 to present).
America: History & Life (EBSCO)
Excellent resource for Canadian history topics: 2000 Canadian/US history journals indexed/abstracted (links to full-text).
Gender Studies Database (EBSCO)
Hundreds of journals indexed/abstracted related to women’s studies, sexual diversity, men’s studies; links to full-text in ASP
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)
Formerly called LGBT Life. Index for world literature on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. At present there is a limited full-text component.
Philosopher's Index (EBSCO)
The Philosopher's Index is a comprehensive subject and author index to Philosophical articles, books, and anthologies. More than 550 journals from more than 40 countries are indexed.
JSTOR (CRKN)
A collection of 1,083 of the the most important academic journals in the Arts & Sciences, the Biological Sciences, and the Life Sciences. In most instances the volume run is complete back to the first issue. An important source of full-text for older articles and book reviews.
Project Muse
Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Taylor & Francis: Social Sciences and Humanities Collection (CRKN)
A collection of articles from 1,191 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
A library of 11,610 scholarly and scientific open access journals (as of April 2016) and over 2 million articles and research papers from a wide range of academic fields.

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Google Scholar

Citation Indexes

The Web of Science is a multidisiplinary index that includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It has links to the full-text of some articles, and in most instances an abstract is provided to articles published since 1989. However, you may do a search of these articles for cited references published over several centuries. For more information please refer to our tutorial.

Where's the Full-Text ?

If you are unsure whether an article is available in full text or not, please click on the 'Check for full text . . .' link closest to the citation to check if the full text is available at MSVU. The 'Check for full text . . .' link will check to see if the article is available in another database, or to see if the library has a copy of the article in print. If the article is not available at MSVU please look at our document delivery options.