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Top 10 Online
Resources
for
Religion and Theology
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.
Academic Search Complete
(which includes the Religion & Philosophy database
listed separately in EbscoHost). ASC
provides full text for
several thousand peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files to
1975 are available for nearly one hundred journals,
and searchable cited references are provided for
more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on
a daily basis via EBSCOhost
Catholic Periodical &
Literature Index. CPLI is a
citation-only database that indexes
periodicals, books, newspapers, and papal documents,
dealing with the practice of Catholic faith and
lifestyle. The dates of inclusion are
1981-present. Bridwell owns many of the items
indexed.
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.
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 African American Studies,
Archaeology, Art History, Classical Studies,
Feminist & Women’s Studies, History, Philosophy, and
Religion.
New Testament Abstracts.
This database covers the span from 1985 to within
the past year. Abstracts are in English. NTA
offers more than 38,000 articles and more than
13,500 book summaries.
Old Testament Abstracts.
This database covers the span from 1978 to within
the past year. All abstracts are in English
regardless of the language of the original work.
Sources are predominantly journal articles but also
include books, essays, and software.
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.
Online! (citation styles).
A guide for how to cite sources of electronic
information properly in several scholarly styles,
including Chicago, from which Turabian is derived.
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