Core Resources
- Religion and Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new windowCovered topics include world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and history of philosophy. More than 300 full-text journals, 250 peer-reviewed. Subset of Academic Search Complete.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary academic resource. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, arts, literature, and medicine. Includes scholarly full-text articles from over 7,300 sources, with an additional 1,000 full-text sources. Indexes more than 10,000 periodicals
- World Religions
Our subscription to World Religions from Infobase ended October 31, 2022.
Please see this list of alternative resources or contact us for more specific guidance.
Offers topic centers for in-depth study on many different religions, the complete text of many sacred or otherwise important religious works, brief fact files for overviews, hundreds of definitions and encyclopedia entries, as well as many videos, timelines, slideshows, maps, graphs, and music recordings.
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
- For example: "What is currently being done to help conserve the endangered Giant Panda population?"
- Keywords: conserve and Giant Panda
Think of related words.
- Conserve: conservation, preservation, protection
- Giant Panda: panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca (scientific name).
Get searching!
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