Library Guides: REL ST 4100/7100: Modern Perspectives In the Study of Religion: Theories of Religion

EBSCOhost Databases

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Recommended databases to leave checked, either singly or as a group:

Academic Search Complete
America: History & Life (for history of U.S. and Canada)
ATLA Religion Database
ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Historical Abstracts (for history of places outside the U.S. and Canada)
MEDLINE
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (if applicable)
MLA International Bibliography
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO

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Additional Subject Databases

AnthroSource
Covers current issues for key American Anthropological Association publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, as well as back issues of all AAA journals.

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Sociological Abstracts
Proquest's Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Date Coverage: 1952-date

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Scopus
Database with abstracts and citations of research literature and quality web sources, including journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, abstracts, and patent records. A multidisciplinary resource covering materials from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Also indexes EMBASE and allows you to locate the most highly cited items and the articles that cite them.

Date Coverage: 1970-present; selected access back to 1823

Maximum Users: Unlimited

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JSTOR
Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.

Specifically contains access to Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections.
Free account can be created for personalization.
Date Coverage: Varies by title
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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Search Guide: http://www.jstor.org/help/search.html

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