Theology: Journals & Databases
This guide presents key resources for staff and students' research
Useful Databases
These databases are highly recommended for finding Theology and Religion related articles. Use the tabs above to navigate.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowThe Atla Religion Database is an index of academic journal articles in the area of religion. It is updated monthly and published by the American Theological Library Association. The database indexes articles, essays, and book reviews related to a wide range of scholarly fields related to religion.
- Informit Humanities and Social SciencesA multidisciplinary collection providing access to unique content from journals, monographs, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. Useful for New Zealand and Australian sources
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides 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.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowFull-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 windowContains 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
- Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform This link opens in a new windowExamines the influence of both faith and scepticism on the shaping of many aspects of society---politics, law, economics, and social and radical reform movements.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecas (TLG online) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. Each user must register for a user profile to access the full corpus via the login.
- Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new windowThe digital Loeb Classical Library published by Harvard University Press, is a fully searchable and browsable platform hosting a series of over 500 texts which, through original text and English translation, gives access to Greek and Latin heritage. Texts cover epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, travel, philosophy, oratory, the great medical writers and mathematicians.
- Informit Complete This link opens in a new windowIncludes access to the followings databases: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, Health Collection, Engineering Collection, Business Collection, Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, AGIS Plus Text, A+ Education, as well as Informit Indexes (over 70). Provides access to core and unique research from Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region.
- Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowProvides 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 windowPIO 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 windowThe 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 windowA 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.
- Trove This link opens in a new windowA 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.
A Guide to using ATLA Serials
- British Politics and Society (NCCO) This link opens in a new windowFrom 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 windowIn association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, Alexander Street Press is pleased to offer the first major online collection of Karl Barth's works. Combining comprehensiveness with a carefully crafted set of text-analysis tools, The Digital Karl Barth Library will support a new generation of research into the works of one of the twentieth century's most influential theologians.
- Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts This link opens in a new windowA 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 windowThis 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 windowProvides 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 windowFull 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.
- Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (NCCO) This link opens in a new windowFrom 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 windowA 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 windowThe 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 windowNCCO is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the nineteenth century.
- Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform This link opens in a new windowExamines 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 windowA 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 windowThe 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.
More Primary Source databases can be found in the History Guide
Resources from Aotearoa
IndexNZAbstracts and descriptions for articles from a huge range of New Zealand periodicals and newspapers since the 1950s.
Also see:
- DigitalNZ This link opens in a new windowAims 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 windowSimultaneously 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 windowResearch documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand; now hosted by DigitalNZ
- Knowledge Basket This link opens in a new windowNew 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 windowSearch 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 windowThe 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.
- Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological ReviewColloquium 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.
- Journal of New Zealand StudiesThe Journal of New Zealand Studies is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal published by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies. Papers are welcome from any discipline. They should have a New Zealand focus, or be comparative with a strong New Zealand element.
- 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.
- Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & PracticeStimulus, the New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, is published by Laidlaw College three times a year. As its name implies, Stimulus provides provocative and challenging material for thoughtful readers, drawing on a wide variety of material, from authors outside of Laidlaw College, as well as from our own faculty. The major articles in each issue (as distinct from reviews and columns) are peer-reviewed.