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Indexes

General / Ancient World / Asian Studies / Biblical Studies / Buddhism / Christianity / The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)/ Hinduism / Islam / Judaism

General (Indexes and databases covering several religions)

Comprehensive
- 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
- 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
Ancient World
- Ancient Religions eJournal articles from SSRN
- Aufsteig und Niedergang der Romanischen Welt - searchable index to the contents of the books in this very important series on the Classical World
- Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP) - index to articles on papyrology and the society and history of the Graeco-Roman world, includes documents in Demotic, Coptic and Aratic from Alexander's conquest to 11th cent CE
- Brussels Coptic Database - index of information on 8000 Coptic texts
- Bulletin Analytique d'Histoire Romaine - comprehensive bibliography of works on Roman history and archaeology
- Donum: Database of Numismatic Materials - catalog of the Amerian Numismatic Society - indexes books and journal articles
- Droits Antiques (DRANT) - "legal, political, economic and social institutions of the ancient Mediterranean world" - including history of religions in Ancient Greece and Roman, Persia, Near East and Egypt. Annually over 4,000 articles and books are examined for material.
- Gnomon Online: Bibliographische Datenbank - Classical studies bibliography good for locating articles, books, and essays on Greek and Roman religions and other religions of the ancient world
- iDAI.bibliography/ Zenon - produced by Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut this resource listing both books and articles brings together the holdings of libraries across the world with strong archaeological holdings. Very useful for religions in antiquity including Judaism, early Christian church, early Islam and Ugarit, Hittite, Maya, Roman, Greek, Celtic, Persian and Canaanite religions
- Inscriptions Database (Europeana Eagle Project) - online collection of digitized items and translations
- KeiBi: Internationale Keilschriftbibliographie online - this key tool for locating books and articles on Ancient Near Eastern Studies was first published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute in the journal Orientalia and it now available fully searchable online.
- Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean and Related Areas - index to books and articles on the Aegean, Homeric Society and related fields (prehistoric period) - published by the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati - updated monthly, currently contains over 48,000 works
- Oriental Institute Integrated Database Search - index to books, journal articles and essays on the ancient near east.
- Propylaeum, die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften - Specialized portal that was developed for eight areas of Classical Studies: Egyptology, Ancient History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Central and Latin Philology and Pre-and Early History. Index to books and essays dealing with Classical Studies.
- TOCS-IN - provides access to the tables of content of over 180 classics journals including numerous titles relevant to Religious Studies - includes links to fulltext where available and provides keyword searching
Asian Studies
- Cross Asia - searches European and Asian resources for open access books and articles
Biblical Studies
- Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne - database of articles, books and collected works. Can search by keyword, subject, author, biblical reference, theme and Greek and Hebrew terms.
- Biblical Studies.org - index to a wide variety of journal articles, links to freely available full-text for over 20,000 articles
- BILDI - extensive index to Biblical Studies material - indexes 90 journals completely, selectively indexes over 500 other journals and includes articles in collected works and Festschriften
- �cole Biblique et Arch�ologique Fran�aise - this library catalogue is a comprehensive index to books and journal articles on biblical studies and archaeology
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Integrated Database - index to books, articles, book sections as well as photos, museum and archival resources. Good source to locate research resources on Ancient Near Eastern religions (Egyptian, Zoarastianism etc.), Biblical Studies and early Christianity, and early history of Islam and Judaism.
Buddhism
- Bibliography of Asian Studies -South Asia Index -small subset of the Bibliography of Asian Studies
- China/Asia On Demand (Oriprobe Information Services) - searchable index to Chinese articles, legal documents and reports - good especially for Buddhism and Taoism and religion in China. For a fee can order full-text of the documents
- Digital Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies - database of over 239,000 fulltext items in over 40 languages. Produced by the Library of the National Taiwan University. Index to over 130,000 books, articles, research reports and theses.
- South Asia Resources Database - contains over 120,000 records to books, serials, archival material on South Asia available in Australia and a separate file of records for works not held in Australia.
- Nepal Journals Online - 122 journals with over 12,000 articles available in full text
Christianity
- American Friend Obituary Index
- Anglican Church of Canada - Journal Articles Database
- Aufsatzdokumentation zur Geschichte des Pietismus - extensive index to books and journal articles on Pietism to 2013. Search Library catalog of the Bibliothek der Franckeschen Stiftungen for works published 2014 to date.
- Augustinus-Liturdatenbank - index to books and articles on Saint Augustine produced by the Zentrum f�r Augustinus-Forschung at the Julius-Maximilians University Wurzburg
- BIBP: Base d'Information Bibliographique en Patristique - searchable database to 60,000 records from over 1600 journals on patristic studies (Early Christian Church Fathers). While you need to search in French, many of the items are in English.
- Bibliography of writings on Lutheranism in America - from the annual bibliography in the Lutheran Historical Conference Newsletter
- Bibliographia Thomistica - index to articles and books on Thomas Aquinas
- Bibliothèque diocésaine de Quimper et Léon - index to books and journal articles on Biblical Studies and Catholic theology. While some of the citations are to English language material, the majority are in French.
- Catalogue des Sources Chretiénnes - books and articles on the Fathers of the Church and history of early and medieval Christianity - need to change the drop down menu to search Catalogue des Sources Chretiénnes
- Calvinism Resources Database - comprehensive guide to articles, essays and book reviews
- Chinese Christian Texts Database - created by Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, " The Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840). The cultural contacts comprise documents in the various fields of cultural interaction: religion, philosophy, science, art, etc. " References for primary works contain description of content, lists of translations or secondary sources, and notes on facsimile editions and information on the author.
- Database Kanonisches Recht - over 40,000 citations to books and articles on canon law
- Deutsches Liturgisches Institut - Search their library for listings of works (books and journal articles) on liturgy including Jewish liturgy.
- Dr Williams's Library and Congregational Library Online - major index to over 40,000 books and 67,000 journal articles on English Protestant Nonconformity
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - index to journal articles, book reviews and essagys on women in the Middle Ages
- GlobeTheoLib and GlobeEthics Lib - extensive digital library of books and journals on theology and on ethics (political, bioethics, legal, religious, media etc.) worldwide. Most of the identified books and journals articles are freely available
- Hagiography Database - Great tool to aid the study of writings about saints and their posthumous cults. 119 saints of the 8th to 10th centuries are included in this database which contains information from the Greek vitae and martyria, collections of miracles and notices from the Synaxarion of Constantinople. Provides searching of the Greek vitae of the saints by keyword or by category such as medicine, monasticism etc. - link to the Greek text is provided for most of the saints.
- Index Theologicus (IxTheo): Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen - major index to religion and theology articles (world-wide coverage), essays and books. Particularly useful for German publications. Can limit to open access (small percentage)
- Library of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada Database - index to Anglican Consultative Council resolutions from 1971 to 2005, Lambeth Conference resolutions from 1867 to 1998, official statements from the Anglican Church of Canada, books in the Church House Library (added since 1989) and more than 34,000 articles indexed from newspapers, journals, magazines and newsletters received by Church House Library (since 1989) - see advanced search to limit to archival descriptions, photographs, official statements and/or journal articles
- Online-Katalog der Bibliothek des Instituts fur Theologie und Frieden - Books and journal articles on the theology of peace, includes works from an ethical perspective
- PThK - Predigtadatenbank fur Theologie und Kirche - index to over 6,000 sermons published in periodical literature. Can search by theme, biblical passage, day and author
- Restoration Serials Index - index to articles from over 70 journals relevant to study of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
- Research in Ministry Online (RIM Online) -indexes theses from over 100 DMin, DMiss and DEdMin programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. Searchable by keyword, author, title, subject and institution.
- Riviste On-line - indexes 174 Italian theology and philosophy journals
- Seventh-Day Adventist Periodical Index - This index covers approximately 40 Seventh-Day Adventist journals and magazines from 1973 to current. Links are provided to fulltext where available
- Teologia y religiosidad latinoamericana - Index to Theological Periodicals in Latin America - click on the pull down menu beside Buscar and select Seladoc
- Theoldi - Index to Theological and Interdisciplinary literature produced by the School of Theology at the University of Innsbruck. Covers Biblical Literature BILDI, Systematic and Fundamental theology KALDI, Canon law, and Girard Documentation MIMESIS
- Theological Journals Search - custom Google search of over 250 open acess theological journals
- TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network Database) - Searchable database of over 23,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
- 19th century Mormon Article Newspaper Index - " bibliography of newspaper articles which deal in some way with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, or with the territory or state of Utah found in national newspapers between 1831–1900. The database inventories nearly 5800 articles" - from the BYU digital collections - includes full-text of the articles.
- 19th Century Publications about the Book of Mormon - " Published literature relating to the book that appeared during the Prophet Joseph Smith's lifetime is one of the best historical windows for understanding how this ancient American scripture was interpreted, used, and understood by early readers" - from the BYU digital collections
- Studies in Mormon History - compiled by James B. Allen, BYU Professor of History emeritus, and J. Michael Hunter of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University " This database includes citations to articles, books, theses, and Ph.D. dissertations dealing with the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, written from the time of its inception in 1830 to the present. It is intended to be comprehensive, but does not include highly pejorative works, though it does include controversial works that still have historical substance or interest. "
Hinduism
- Bibliography of Asian Studies -South Asia Index -small subset of the Bibliography of Asian Studies
- EAST: Epistemology and Argumentation in South Asia and Tibet - identifies English translations of texts
- National Digital Library of India - books and journals articles some are available open access
- South Asia Resources Database - contains over 120,000 records to books, serials, archival material on South Asia available in Australia and a separate file of records for works not held in Australia.
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Digital Repository - includes South Asian Resources Digital Archives (SARDA) - either limit search to SARDA or select "University Library" from community list and then select SARDA. Most articles are in Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu; over 280 are in English
Islam
- ACEER - index to Iranian journals - a few are available open access
- Arab and Middle Eastern Electronic Library - index to books and journals most of which require subscriptions
- Articles in Islamic Studies and Articles on Theology Database/Islamic Studies - over 42,000 articles in fulltext - Centre for Islamic Studies Turkiye Diyanel Foundation
- Eurislam - "publications concerning the current situation, in contemporary Europe in a wide sense, of Islam as a religion (beliefs and religious practices, religious sensibilities) and of Muslims as a diversified group of population (Muslim immigration, institutions, public regulation). The database contains press articles, books, book sections, study or investigation reports, theses, grey literature." 4,500 references - no fulltext links. Currently not regularly updated
- Indonesian OneSearch - identifies a significant number of books, articles and theses on Islam
- MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library - "provides access to electronic fulltext materials or electronic bibliographical records of printed materials and manuscripts." Searches a number of European Middle Eastern research institutes including German Institute of Global and Area Studies, the Zentrum Moderner Orient and the ULB Halle.
- MENADOC- collects and indexes freely available publications on the Middle East and Islam
- Moraref - open access Indonesian journals focussing on Islam
Judaism
- Bibliography on Antisemitism - Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
- Bibliography of the Hebrew Book - Jewish literature printed in Hebrew
- Compact Memory - collection of 100 important Jewish German journals and newspapers published between 1806 and 1938. Over 700,000 images of the pages.
- Index to Yiddish Periodicals
- Kiryat Sefer - listing of Israeli publications. This work is produced by the National Library of Israel.
- RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - extensive coverage from 1966 to date, updated daily
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