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Religous Studies Databases

Atla Religion
Indexing from the American Theological Library Association of research on biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Contains more than 1.8 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages, including references to articles, journals, essays, book reviews and multimedia. 1949 to the present.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, etc.
Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450–present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Includes indexing of historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
America: History & Life
An index of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
A guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

Multi-Subject Resources

Academic Search Complete
A broad multi-disciplinary database encompassing areas in art, science, and humanities. Includes full-text, plus indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other publications.
Humanities International Complete
Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other references in the humanities.
JSTOR (Books, journals, primary sources, & Artstor)

Provides electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal. The latest issue available is determined by a moving wall. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from three to five years.

Artstor content has been migrated to JSTOR; select the "images" tab to search images.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection
Full text database covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

OhioLINK subscribes to "basic" collection. Kelvin Smith Library has upgraded to the "standard" collection. See the title list.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the social sciences.
FirstSearch
Precision search interface for the OCLC Worldcat database.

Finding Copies of Articles

If the database you are using doesn't provide the full text for an article directly, remember to take these 3 steps IN SEQUENCE to search for a copy in the Case Libraries system.

IF, AND ONLY IF, these 3 steps don't provide a way to get a copy of the article, see the box below for information on our inter-library loan (ILL) service.

Click the "Full Text Finder" icon

This button will appear in the record in the database you are using when direct access to full text is not provided. Click it to see if our system can automatically locate access to the article through one of our resources.

CWRU eJournal Portal
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

ILLiad - Interlibrary Loan Service at KSL

If you've determined that the full text of an article isn't available electronically or in print from the Case Libraries, you can request a copy through our interlibrary loan service.

KSL Interlibrary Loan
For items not available via Case Libraries or our state-wide OhioLINK consortium, borrowing (books) or PDF copy (articles) requests can be made online using our free interlibrary loan service.