Frequently Used Online Resources
Academic Search Complete
ASC provides full text for several thousand peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files to 1975 are available for nearly 100 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
The ATLA Religion Database is an essential tool for the study of religion. It is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Some full-text articles are available.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
This resource is full-text searchable, and includes both the 15th and 16th editions. The online version also includes the Chicago Style Q&A, the Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide, and a suite of useful tools.
Digital Dissertations
A database maintained by UMI that lists some 1.5 million Ph.D. dissertations and MA theses submitted to over 1,000 universities, from 1861 to date. Abstracts are included for Ph.D. dissertations since 1980 and MA theses since 1988. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24-page previews available.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts & Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
A great resource for the study of the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, these databases provide web-based access to a range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, including theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, polemical treatises, papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, liturgical writing, saints’ lives , and devotional works by more than 300 different Catholic and Protestant authors.
iPreach
Online database of materials from Abington Press. Includes New Interpreter’s Bible, dictionaries, commentaries, Bible translations, Works of Wesley and many other resources.
JStor
An archive of full-text scholarly journals, offering researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. These journals span many disciplines, including Classical Studies, History, Philosophy, and Religion.
Also links to ARTStor, which is a searchable image database.
New Catholic Encyclopedia
The reference work is prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities. Topics include abortion, divorce, cloning, and reproductive technologies. In addition to the hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations. The 15th volume is a cumulative index to the entire encyclopedia.
Supplement 2009
Supplement 2010
Supplement 2011
OCLC World Cat
An indispensable catalog of books and other materials (including maps, images, electronic resources, music, archives, etc.) held in libraries worldwide. Includes an item’s bibliographic information, a list of libraries that own it, and an easy link to SMU’s Interlibrary Loan for borrowing.
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
The online version contains the same articles at the print version, with hyperlinks to cross-references. Bibliographies are also included, with links to the library catalog.
Oxford English Dictionary
The online version of the complete Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford Handbooks
Oxford Handbooks in Religion bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in religion. The handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
Past Masters
This series of searchable full-text databases contains the works of Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Calvin, Francis of Assisi, Luther, Plato, and Latin Masters from 1100 to 1550.
Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms
A convenient online version of the Reference book, containing over 6,000 entries. Its concise definitions capture a broad range of theological disciplines: biblical studies; church history; ethics; feminist theology; liberation theology; ministry; philosophy; Protestant, Reformed, and Roman Catholic theologies; and more.