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