Research Guides: RELG 237: Graphic Religion: The Ethics of Representation (HC): Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles

Journal articles provide in depth scholarly information. They are vetted and improved by peer review. They are usually fairly short in length and focused on discussing one specific issue. The following indexes are good places to find journal articles about religion.

Use the Find It button in these indexes to find out if the journal articles are available in the Tri-College libraries. If the journal is not listed in Tripod, use the Find It request form or the Interlibrary Loan Request Form on Tripod to have a copy of the article sent to you from another library.

Discipline-Specific Indexes

These indexes are particularly good for accessing the scholarly literature of a particular discipline, i.e., articles written by religion scholars, historians, anthropologists, or other .kinds of researchers.

ATLA Religion Database + ATLA Serials (American Theological Library Association)
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This is the leading database for journal scholarship in religion. It provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty key scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers material published 1949 to the present.
Historical Abstracts
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Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
Swarthmore has access to the full text.

America: History & Life
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Indexes journal articles and book reviews covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Covers international scholarship in more than 40 languages.

Anthropology Plus
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It covers a broad range of journals, combining indexing from Harvard with work done at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA and RILA) This link opens in a new window
Covers journal articles and other titles about art published through 2007. For more recent material, see the International Bibliography of Art.
MLA International Bibliography
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Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, theater and folklore. Covers 1926-present.

Indexes Covering All Subject Areas

JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
ProQuest Research Library
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Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Web of Science
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Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.