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| ARTICLES | | |  Help Finding Articles | | |  Journal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals. | | | Scholarly Articles | | | Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] - 1965 to present - Full Text
Full-text and indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more. | | | ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials [EBSCO] - 1949 to present - Full Text
Covers religious and theological scholarship in 1,400 international journals and 14,000 multi-author works. Includes citations and some full text from Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). | | | Catholic Periodical and Literature Index - 1981 to present
Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle. Includes articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, plus Papal documents, church promulgations, and books authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. | | | Humanities Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs from over 465 sources in the humanities. | | | Humanities International Index
Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. | | | Index Islamicus - 1906 to present
Lists articles, books, essays, reviews on Islam, the Middle East & the Muslim world (incl. Asia, Africa, & Muslim minorities elsewhere). Covers art, archaeology, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, sciences... | | | Index to Jewish Periodicals - 1988 to present
Lists English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in journals devoted to Jewish affairs. | | | RAMBI; Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - 1960 to present
Standard index to scholarship in several languages on all areas of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. | | | Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present
Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present as well as older material cited in these publications. Updated weekly. | | | Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - 1990 to present
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
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Indexes nearly 1,200 English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; also includes citations to book reviews. | |
| BOOKS AND MEDIA | | | Help Finding Books | | | CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
Repository of digital resources contributed by members of the American Theological Library Association. Includes images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, and manuscripts. | | | Google Books - Full Text
Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available. | | | Index of Christian Art - Full Text
Documents over 200,000 works of art in all media produced from apostolic times through the 15th century with Christian themes or for ecclesiastical settings. Entries include bibliographies, scholarly commentaries, images | | | Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more. | | | Library Catalogs | | | Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst. | | | WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records. | | | Library of Congress Catalog | | | Book Purchases and Reviews | | | Books in Print - 1979 to present
Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present. | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | Cambridge Collections Online - Full Text
Online version of the Cambridge Companions; offers introductions to major writers, artists, topics and periods within the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture. | | | Religion & Philosophy [Oxford] - Full Text
Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias of the Bible, Christianity, Budhism, Islam, & other world religions, published by Oxford University Press. | | | Early Modern Italy - 1850 to present
A comprehensive didactic bibliography in English and French on Early Modern
Italy (1550-1800). Covers history, art history, music, literature, philosophy, religion and science. September 2002 edition. | | | Dictionaries | | | CJKV-English Dictionary
Designed for use with pre-modern texts, from Zhou dynasty materials to 19th-century writings in China, Korea and Japan. Includes information on Chinese terminology derived from Confucianism, Daoism, secular literature, poetry, and historical works. | | | Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
A digital version of the 1930s dictionary of Chinese Buddist terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. | | | Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. | | | Encyclopedias | | | Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text
Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion. | | | Encyclopedia of Buddhism - Full Text
Ed. by R.E. Buswell. Covers Buddhism’s basic teachings & practices, different schools & sects, scriptures, art, architecture, divinities, monastic orders, festivals, rites & ceremonies, history and relationships with other religions. | | | Encyclopedia of Religion [Gale] - Full Text
The second edition of Eliade’s definitive work, this resource includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries, many heavily updated, as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles, including illustrations and visual essays. | | | New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Gale] - Full Text
The NDHI is a comprehensive work that discusses the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the twenty-first century in all fields across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East. | | | Encyclopaedia Judaica [Gale] - Full Text
2nd edition, with entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. | | | Style Manuals | | | Citation Guides & Style Manuals | |
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