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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 for 4,500+ scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. | | | ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials [EBSCO] - 1949 to present - Full Text
Covers religious and theological scholarship in 1,400 international journals and 14,000 books. Includes citations and some full text. | | | Catholic Periodical and Literature Index [EBSCO] - 1981 to present
Indexes Catholic periodicals, books by Catholic authors and books from Catholic publishers on all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle; with Papal documents and church promulgations. | | | Humanities Abstracts [EBSCO] - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews of plays, television, and radio from 465+ sources. | | | Humanities International Index [EBSCO]
Citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works (poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations) from books and journals. | | | Index Islamicus - 1906 to present
Lists articles, books, essays, reviews on Islam, the Middle East & the Muslims worldwide. Covers art, archaeology, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, sciences, etc. | | | Index to Jewish Periodicals [EBSCO] - 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
Extensive Index to 1,300 journals in all arts and humanities disciplines. | | | 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.
| | | Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - 1907-1984
Indexes 1,200 scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; with 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. No printing or downloading. | | | 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
Extensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide. | | | Library of Congress Catalog | | | Book Purchases and Reviews | | | Books in Print - 1979 to present
Information on all books (scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint, etc.) on all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. With out-of-print titles from 1979 to the present. | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | Blackwell Reference Online Religion - Full Text
Contains overviews and bibliographies on major religious denominations, sacred texts, and religion in contemporary society. | | | 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 | | | Encyclopedia of Buddhism - Full Text | | | Encyclopedia of Religion [Gale] - Full Text | | | New Catholic Encyclopedia - 2nd ed. - Full Text | | | New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Gale] - Full Text | | | Encyclopaedia Judaica [Gale] - Full Text | | | Style Manuals | | | Citation Guides & Style Manuals | |
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