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- Anthropological Index Online - index to the over 4,000 journals held by the Royal Anthropological Institute at the British Museum
- Africa Journals Online - index to over 521 journals and open access is provided for approximately 50% of the articles
- African Studies Centre Catalogue - indexes 90,000 books and 2,0000 journals in the humanities and social sciences covering North and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as government reports, African newspapers and films. Note in Advanced Search can limit to "Online resources" (free full-text)
- AIATSIS - listing of books and articles about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Akademiai Kiado - search the 60 journals published by this press including: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.
- AnthroSource - index to publications produced by the American Anthropological Association. Excellent resource for Anthropology and Religion, especially for study of religion in non-western cultures - while can freely search the index, you can only view the fulltext if your are an AAA member
- British Library Direct - Can freely search the titles and authors of over 42 million book and articles held at the British Library. Need to register/login when want to order a document, there is a charge for ordering the fulltext. Only very basic searching.
- Central and East European Online Library - You can search "articles from 184 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics." While some fulltext is free, you need need a subscription or to pay download fee to view the full-text of many of the articles.
- Dart - Europe E-thesis Portal - open access to over 730,000 theses from over 800 universities in 28 European countries
- DIALNET - excellent index to Spanish articles, essays, books and theses . Includes some links to fulltext. Indexes over 10,000 journals and 116,000 theses.
- Directory of History Dissertations (American Historical Association - over 54,000 US and Canadian history dissertations completed or in progress.
- El Buscon - searches National Library of Spain as well as a number of other sources and provides an index to journal literature by searching Intute, Dialnet and Google Scholar
- Erudit - open access to over 200,000 scholarly North American French-language publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Includes religious studies titles such as Théologiques, Laval théologique et philosophique and Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions
- ESSPR - Index to Italian journals in the area of economics, law, social sciences and history. Includes a number of articles on religion
- ETHOS - index to UK theses - over 450,000 doctoral theses - many are available open access, just need to create an account
- Find NZ Articles - access to articles from New Zealand newspapers and journals. Excellent resource for material on Maori religion.
- Journal TOCs -" is the largest free collection of scholarly journals Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains recent tables of content for over 29,000 journals (including over 11,000 Open Access journals.Can search for articles by keyword or browse journals by title.
- JURN - "acurated academic search-engine, indexing 3,426 free ejournals in the arts & humanities"
- JSTOR- In advanced search limit Access type to "Read" or "Read and Download". Free access to works published prior to 1923 in the US and prior to 1870 elsewhere.
- LAPTOC - Latin Anerican Periodicals Tables of Content - searches over 950 journals from 1994-2009
- Open Thesis - index to theses produced worldwide
- some are open access- Persee : the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research - provides full-text of the articles.
- Population Studies Center (University of Michigan) - index to their publications with a few pdf's provided
- PubMed Central - good for identifying articles on religion and medicine/medical ethics
- RACO - Index to over 480 Catalan journals available open access - provides links to fulltext of articles
- Redalyc - index to over 1,000 open acess journals from Latin and Ameria, Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
- Refdoc.fr - index to over 54 million references to articles, books and conference proceedings
- Royal Society Archives - fully searchable database of publications of the Royal Society, many of which are freely available in fulltext (have option to limit search to open access). Good for works on science and religion.
- Social Science Research Network - index to fulltext documents. Over 56,000 papers in the Humanites, including many documents on aspects of religious studies - SSRN is " devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research"
- Trove - searches over 500,000 Australian books, images, newspapers, maps, music, archives etc. Can limit to those available free online
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