Library Catalog Research Resources
Session 3: Periodical Databases
The world of journals
- Scholarly journals (peer-reviewed)
- Open-access journals
- Finding them at Drew
The world of databases of journals
- Database producer vs. Database vendor
- The Ebsco "family" of databases
- Full-text databases vs indexes with some full-text (like ATLA)
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion Database (see under A)
- Contains citations to: articles, essays, books, book reviews
- Offers fulltext for many articles, or a way to it via the "Search for Article" link
- Formats citations according to Chicago style (but needs checking)
- Allows for saving citations and/or transferring them to Endnote
- Connects to interlibrary loan for articles not available through Drew
- Offers focused scripture searching (Select Indexes, then Scripture Citation index)
- Helpful tutorials
- A brief tipsheet
Other useful religion databases
- OT Abstracts (see under O)
- NT Abstracts (see under N)
- Rambi (for Jewish studies)
And some interdisciplinary databases
- Academic Search Premier (see under A) (and tipsheet)
- Proquest Research Library (and tipsheet)
- JSTOR
- Google Scholar (and how best to use it) (off campus, set Library Links to Drew)
Using Summon to find articles
Organizing citations with Endnote