Studies in religion

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Key databases

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Australasian Religion Index (ARI)
The ARI indexes Australian and New Zealand journal articles in religious studies, theology and related fields.

Informit Full Text
Covers architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports.
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Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Encyclopedia of Religion

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

Check the Dictionary of the Bible, Oxford Companion to the Bible, Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible, Dictionary of Buddhism, Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, Oxford Dictionary of Saints and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

High impact journals

The following Studies in Religion journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Religion and religious traditions:

British Journal of Aesthetics 1997- (1 year delay for most current issue), 1993-1998
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 1995-
Dead Sea Discoveries 1994-
Harvard Theological Review 1908-2002
Jewish Quarterly Review 1888-2002
Journal of Biblical Literature 1892-2004, 1997-
Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry 1941-1997
Novum Testamentum 1956-, 1956-2002
Religious Studies 2001- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Theological Studies 1995-, 1993-
Vetus Testamentum 1951-, 1951-2002
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik is in print at Call Number P481.7/Z48
Zeitschrift fur Religions und Geistesgeschichte 1948-

Web sites and Internet resources

Academic Info: Religion Gateway A portal site which covers everything from alternative spirituality to women and religion
BeliefNet This large site has discussion boards, chat rooms, news, interviews, articles, booklists, and sacred texts online
CDRI Digital Resources for the Study of Religion organised by the American Theological Library Association
Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies run by National Taiwan University Library
Gnostic Society Library This archive contains a vast collection of primary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of in-depth audio lectures and brief archive notes
International Islamic Digital Library developed by a number of Malaysian libraries
Medieval Philosophy and Theology a peer-reviewed, open access journal
Missionary Periodicals Database for information on foreign missions as published in Britain between the eighteenth century and the 1960s
Monastic Matrix a study of women's religious communities 400-1600 AD
WWW Virtual Library — Religion Links to resources about Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism and spirituality
Yale Divinity Digital Image & Text Library on Christianity