LibGuides: Religion: Journals & Databases

Useful Databases: use the tabs below to navigate

These databases are highly recommended for finding Religion-related articles.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion This link opens in a new window Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers.
Religion Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Contains primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organisations.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window This database indexes journals on religious history, biblical studies, epistemology, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Some full text but mostly reference and abstract only.
Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform This link opens in a new window Examines the influence of both faith and scepticism on the shaping of many aspects of society---politics, law, economics, and social and radical reform movements.

These multidisciplary databases index citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish connections between articles and ideas.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Article linker will provide links to library databases and full-text of many articles.
Scopus This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Provides access to the world's leading citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Index Chemicus; Book Citation Index; and, Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers the highest impact journals, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings.

Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
Periodicals Index Online: PIO This link opens in a new window PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1665. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection This link opens in a new window The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first).
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents.
Trove This link opens in a new window A discovery service focused on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. Provides a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the National Library of Australia's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.

Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Academic (Journals) This link opens in a new window
SAGE Premier 2010 This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window

IndexNZ
Abstracts and descriptions for articles from a huge range of New Zealand periodicals and newspapers since the 1950s.

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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window
Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.
DigitalNZ This link opens in a new window
Aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
National Library of New Zealand Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Simultaneously searches the National Library Catalogue, TAPUHI, Timeframes, Publications NZ, Index NZ, Te Puna Web Directory, Matapihi and findNZarticles.
NZResearch This link opens in a new window
Research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand; now hosted by DigitalNZ
Knowledge Basket This link opens in a new window
New Zealand Index (including Newzindex, NZ Science, Newspaper Index, Index New Zealand), Newztext and LegislationNZ (including Hansard).
Te Puna - New Zealand National Union Catalogue This link opens in a new window
Search the New Zealand National Union Catalogue for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand.
Presbyterian Research Centre: the Archive and Library for the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand This link opens in a new window
The archives bring together information from many sources, particularly in relation to Otago and Southland. They include genealogical material and a database of Presbyterian marriages as well as a large collection of photographs, cine film, slides, audio/video tapes & plans.

Journal of New Zealand Studies
Relegere studies in religion and reception. Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception is an independent, open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of innovative research in reception history, broadly conceived, within and across religious traditions.

Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review Colloquium is an international peer-reviewed journal published twice yearly in May and November in Sydney, Australia under the auspices of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools Ltd.

High Impact Journals

High Impact Journals

Google Scholar Metrics: Religion Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank: Religious Studies The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). The Religious Studies category includes Theology

History & Classics Databases

History Databases
Classics Databases

Historical Abstracts (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). Leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals.
Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). HA is the leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals. Researchers in history, multicultural studies, sociology, psychology, gender studies, religion, interdisciplinary studies, anthropology, political science, economics, business, education, music, art and law will find HA indispensable.
History Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Combined search across all Proquest databases relevant to history, including dissertations and theses, historical newspapers and publications on history for researchers of all levels.

More databases can be found in the History Guide.

Perseus Digital Library Has a particular focus upon classics, but also early modern English, the American Civil War, the History and Topography of London, and more...

Année Philologique This link opens in a new window
A specialised bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilisations. User Guide.

Gnomon Online A selection of records from Gnomon CD-ROM, a major database for research in classical studies and archaeology, emphasizing scholarly literature published since 1998, holdings of the Eichstätt University and recent acquisitions of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

More databases can be found in the Classics Guide.

News and Current Events

News and Current Events

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window
Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 28,000 sources, from 157 countries in 23 languages.
Newspaper Source Plus (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
PressReader This link opens in a new window
Access to over 1,000 newspapers from over 80 countries in 40 different languages. The newspapers are presented exactly as they are in print format and are available to read at the same time (often earlier) than the print versions. NOTE: Only goes back 90 days.
News & Newspapers Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search and access these collections: ProQuest Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, Australia & New Zealand Newsstand, and historical content for the Guardian, the Observer, the Irish Times, the Weekly Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Scotsman, and the Wall Street Journal.

Newspapers - Library Guide Visit the Newspapers guide for more NZ and International newspaper sources, both current and historical.

University of Otago Databases

Otago University Research Archive (OUR Archive)
Repository for selected research produced at the University of Otago. Includes Book, Book chapters, Journal Articles, Theses, Working Papers and more.
Otago University Research Heritage (OUR Heritage)
A window into the cultural, heritage and historical material within the University of Otago's Hocken Collections and Special Collections.
Special Collections
Special Collections contains books and manuscripts which span the earliest examples of European printing (1473) through to modern first editions and publications from the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Primary Source Databases

Primary Source Databases

British Politics and Society (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Topics covered include British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure. Consisting of more than 1.7 million pages, collections are from a variety of institutions, including the British Library, Oxford University and The National Archives, Kew.
Digital Karl Barth Library This link opens in a new window
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts This link opens in a new window
A collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant writings which includes the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, and also those of lesser-known authors of the period.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation This link opens in a new window
This collection includes hundreds of seminal works. It represents the full range of ideas and opinions that sparked and sustained Catholic reform during the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries.
Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901 (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to the close of the 19th century. Through first-person accounts, including letters and diaries, narratives, and other primary source materials, the collection shares the voices of the time and fosters an enhanced understanding of the experiences of those who took the great challenge in new lands.
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800.
Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800. Complements EEBO (Early English Books Online), which covers the period up to 1700
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls This link opens in a new window
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project from the Israel Museum comprises five Dead Sea Scrolls that have been digitized to date including the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll. The site is Open Access.
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this archive provides an in-depth look into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa in the nineteenth century.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
A literary database of poetry, prose and drama in English. For more information, go to the" Literature Online LibGuide.
Marsden Online Archive This link opens in a new window
The Marsden Online Archive brings together the outstanding archival materials of Hocken Collections, excellent transcriptions by Gordon Parsonson, powerful search tools, and a range of contextualising information within a user-friendly interface. It will not only transform how researchers approach the history of cross-cultural contact in New Zealand, but will also allow teachers to immerse their students in a truly compelling and drama-filled set of sources that capture the richness and complexity of the past.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: NCCO (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window
NCCO is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the nineteenth century.
Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first eight collections are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; Photography: The World through the Lens; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; and Women: Transnational Networks.
Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform This link opens in a new window
Examines the influence of both faith and scepticism on the shaping of many aspects of society---politics, law, economics, and social and radical reform movements.

Focusing on the Medieval and Renaissance periods? You might also find the following useful:

Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
Iter Italicum This link opens in a new window
The online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes, between 1963 and 1992, it is a tool for classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.

DMMapp (Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App)

More Primary Source databases can be found in the History Guide

Seeking Religious Art & Artifacts?

ARTstor Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The current version of ARTstor supports the following browsers: IE 7.0+ ; Firefox 3.0+; Safari 3.0+. A nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
The following system configurations are recommended for the optimal use of the ARTstor Digital Library: A high-speed internet connection; Java version 1.3 or later installed on your browser (Mac users accessing ARTstor through Innovative Proxy must have Java version 1.5 or later); Flash Player version 6.0 or later installed; Pop-up blockers are either disabled or configured to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org; Cookies are enabled in your browser; Monitor resolution is set at 1280 x 1024 pixels or higher; Screen colours are set to True Colour (32 bit) or better.
ATLA Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Atla Digital Library brings together in a singular, searchable platform digitized collections from libraries, religious institutions, and other organizations worldwide who collect and preserve texts, records, maps, photographs, recordings, and other materials. The items found in the Atla Digital Library are of importance to those with an interest in researching, studying, teaching, and otherwise searching for historical and archival content in religion and theology. The Atla Digital Library is Open Access.
Digital Vatican Library This link opens in a new window
The Digital Vatical Library provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitised collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, and printed materials.
British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts This link opens in a new window
Discovering Sacred Texts provides free access to the richness and diversity of the texts from some of the world’s greatest faiths. Includes sacred texts from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and the Baha’i Faith, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Explore Europe's cultural collections. Europeana provides cultural heritage students, professionals, teachers, and researchers with free digital access to European cultural heritage material. The site includes cultural heritage material from over 4,000 different institutions, giving access to millions of cultural heritage items from across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and more.