Religion & philosophy Resources

Databases

Credo Reference: An excellent full-text integrated reference database. Contains linked searching to other resources and visual concept mapping. The BEST place to start!

Humanities Source: a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.

Central Search by EBSCO: a one stop shop for searching almost all library and database content. Uses simple searching and full-text linking to get you to resources faster!

  • Aggregated searching for better results! Clickable limits and options in the left column.
  • Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "diabetes and children" will return results with both terms, "diabetes or blood sugar" will return results with either term, and "diabetes not children" will get rid of anything about children.
  • Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
  • Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
  • Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text

Academic Search Premier: A large general subject database with many journals in full-text, with some coverage in philosophy and religion.

  • Guided subject searching for better results
  • Use left column search guides to refine your search
  • Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
  • Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
  • Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text:

Directory of Open Access Journals: a collection of scholarly, open access full text journals, with coverage in religion and philosophy.

Books

Use the AVALON and Mobius catalogs

AVALON catalog includ[ing] CMU, Mo Valley, UCM, and State Fair, among others. Items from AVALON usually arrive in 2-3 days and check out for 1 month.

MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks. Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.

Websites

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Association of Religion Data Archives

American Philosophical Association

Religion News Service

Virtual Religion Index