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Find Articles: Religious Studies

(R) = Restricted to authorized MTA University users
(FT) = Includes or links to Full Text articles

Religious Studies Database:

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (FT) (R)
Description: Covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. (Title of print index: Religion Index One: Periodicals.) Links are provided to more than 185,000 electronic articles and book reviews, from more than 80 journals.
Years indexed: 1949 to present. Updated semiannually.
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On-campus | Off-campus
Print:
Z 7753 A5 REF
 

Multidisciplinary Databases with Religious Studies Content:

ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (Swetswise)(FT) (R)
Description: A collection of journals published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Access is delivered through Swets. The collection is comprised of 696 journal titles by 52 publishers. This is a multidisciplinary collection covering subject areas in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.
Years indexed: Varies by title
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Cambridge Journals Online (FT) (R)
Description: Over 220 peer-reviewed journals published by Cambridge University Press and covering all subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Includes a modest number of religious studies journals.
Years indexed: Varies by title
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Directory of Open Access Journals ( FT )
Description: Directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Includes over 35 religious studies journals.
Years indexed: Varies by title.
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http://www.doaj.org
InteLex Past Masters (FT) (R)
Description: Past Masters includes 117 full-text humanities databases that make available cohesive collections of editions, in both original language and in English translation, of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of individual authors.
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JSTOR (Arts & Sciences Collections I - VIII) (FT) (R)
Description: Full-text archive of journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Current and recent volumes (last 2 to 5 years) not available for most titles. 
Years indexed: varies by title; complete run for most titles excluding last 2-5 years.
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Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) (FT) (R)
Description:

PAO provides access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 in thirty-seven subject areas. The database combines six separate collections (I - VI) together comprising 500 full-run titles (including over 60 non-English titles) spanning 200 years. Please note that Collection 7 is not included.

Years indexed: 1802 - 1995 (varies by title)
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Project Muse (FT) (R)
Description: Full-text access to the Project Muse Standard Collection of peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also serves as an index to addtional Humanities and Social Sciences journals not included in the Standard Collection.
Years indexed: 1963 - present (varies by title, emphasis on recent years).
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On-campus | Off-campus | List of journals
ProQuest Databases (all) (FT) (R)
Description: Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously (ABI, AltPress Watch, Canadian Newsstand Atlantic and Major Dailies, Canadian Periodicals, Canadian Research Index, CBCA Complete, Philosopher's Index and Research Library), covering a wide variety of subjects from academic journals, popular press magazines and newspapers.
Years indexed: Varies by title
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Taylor & Francis Online (SSH Collection) (FT) (R)
Description: All Taylor & Francis Social Sciences and Humanities journals.  Includes numerous religious studies journals.
Years indexed: January 1997 - present
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Wiley Interscience (now includes Blackwell titles) (FT) (R)
Description: Wiley Interscience provides access to the electronic journals published by Wiley (1997 onwards) and also includes titles that used to be published by Blackwell Synergy which recently merged Wiley.   Subject areas covered include:  business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, humanities, law, the life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and healthcare, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, and the social sciences.
Years indexed: Indexing coverage varies. Fulltext articles are generally available for 1997-present. Updated continuously.
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See also:

Multidisciplinary Indexes, especially Alt-Press Watch and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.