Databases - Religious Studies

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
1848 - present
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier scholarly tool for researching theological perspectives on history, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as biblical studies, world religions and church history.

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Christian Periodical Index
1976 - present
CPI provides indexing for evangelical Christian journals and offers some full-text articles. Prominent topics covered are religion, theology, biblical studies, and pastoral theology with some indexing of journals of other disciplines which put forth a Christian worldview. Squires Library has print issues of this index published 1956-1998.
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Christian Periodical Index - Full Text Titles
A list of full text titles available from publishers web sites that are indexed in the Christian Periodical Index.
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Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
This collection contains the texts of works written by Protestant writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Included are biblical commentaries, catechisms, treatises, pastoral writing, sermons, church histories, disputations, and personal letters. Almost all works are period editions which have been presented in their original languages of Latin, English, French, and German.
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ebrary Religion and Philosophy Collection
A collection of recently published religion and philosophy books from university presses and other scholarly publishers.
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Infotrac Religion and Philosophy
1980 - present
This database features a selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. It can be used not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Coverage begins at 1980 for indexing and 1983 for full-text for some of the periodicals.
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Religious and Theological Abstracts
Provides abstracts of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.
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Theological Journal Library
This database provides full-text access to scholarly evangelical research, including journals from more than a dozen schools of theology and classic works on church history.

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Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. It also offers full text of the New York Times from 1995 to the present and includes transcripts and audio files from National Public Radio (NPR).
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Academic Search Complete (ASC)
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that offers more than 6,100 full-text periodicals. In addition to full-text articles, Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for many more resources, including indexing for more than 10,100 journals, scholarly books, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It includes some searchable PDF content going back as far as 1887.
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America's Newspapers (Newsbank)
A database of the complete electronic editions of more than 750 U.S. newspapers, including major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and regional newspapers such as The Knoxville News-Sentinel and The Tennessean.
Paid advertisements are excluded.
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Credo
An online reference library of hundreds of reference titles with the capability of searching through Squires Library's online catalog and databases. Credo includes general and subject-specific reference tools, as well as images, sound files, animations, and videos.
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Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
A collection of more than 650 national and international newspapers. Includes the Chattanooga Times/Free Press.
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Digital Library of Appalachia
The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The database includes reproductions of photographs, typed pages, books, manuscripts, diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, and oral history recordings and transcripts. The online collection is compiled by libraries, archives, and museums associated with the Appalachian College Association.
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Evans Early American Imprints
This database of full text documents, books, and images covers life in 17th- and 18th-century America. It includes a wide variety of topics, such as history, literature, music (i.e. hymnals), religion (i.e. prayer and liturgical books), philosophy, and foreign affairs. The content of this digital collection is based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.

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Expanded Academic ASAP
1980 - present
Coverage in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and technology, national news, and general interest, with a concentration on scholarly journals.

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General OneFile
General OneFile is a source for news and periodical articles covering a wide range of topics. It includes full-text articles, along with some images and NPR transcripts and audio files. Updated daily.
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Global Road Warrior
An extensive cultural, business, and travel database, Global Road Warrior provides general facts, maps, statistics, and travel tips for individual countries. It also offers information about visas and passports, social and business etiquette, transportation, communications and technology, security issues, health and medicine, religion, women's roles, money and banking, dating rituals, holidays and festivals, food and recipes, and much more.

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JSTOR
1800 to 3 years before present date.
A digital archive collection of scholarly journals starting with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s).
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Minister's Council
The Minister’s Council is an organization of commissioned and lay Christian leaders within the American Baptist Churches in the USA. Through their website, they offer free access to their online periodicals, including: Minister, Vital Churches (for bivocational ministers), newsletters, and executive statements.
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Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet
An academic, peer-reviewed electronic journal that focuses on the interface between religion and cyberspace
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Project Muse
The full text from over 100 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics.
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