REL 298 - Thinking about Religion
Basic Library Services
Electronic Databases
JSTOR
- Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
- Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago
- Remember to narrow by discipline and type of article to get fewer results.
SocIndex with Full-Text (SIFT)
- Search for a term to find articles about it or a scholar to find articles written by or about that person.
- Covers articles from over 4,000 sociology journals.
- Provides abstracts for more than 750 core journals dating as far back as 1895.
PsycInfo
- Search for a term to find articles about it or a scholar to find articles written by or about that person.
- Provides citations and abstracts for psychology and the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, communication, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
- Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, and dissertations.
ATLA (Religion Index)
- Jackson Library's only religion-specific index
- ATLA indexes articles, essays, book reviews, and books. If you find something you like, it's important that you pay attention to what type of material it is so you can locate it.
Newspaper Source
- A good source for newspaper articles from newspapers across the country
Library Catalog
- Use to help find books in the library
- Search a scholar's name as a Keyword Anywhere search to find everything written about and by him/her.
- Search using the search connectors AND and OR
- More about Search Connectors from our Research Tutorial Finding It!
Finding Websites
Search the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information you need.
Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!.
Style Guides
MLA Style Guide
APA Style Guide
Chicago Style Guide
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