The following are multidisciplinary databases that index scholarly journals in a variety of different subject areas, including religion.
Academic Search Premier Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 scholarly journals. Covers the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.Coverage: 1975-present
JSTOR A full-text database covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR provides access to the back files of hundreds of scholarly periodicals, starting with the first issues. Supports full-text and cross-disciplinary searching. Click here for a list of religion journals available for browsing:Coverage:Excludes most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
Project Muse Provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The collection may be searched collectively or individually. Click here for a list of religion journals available for browsing.Coverage: 1990-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Indexes 1,395 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
If your research topic is interdisciplinary--if it touches on other subjects in addition to religion--you may want to expand your search to article databases that focus on these other subjects. For example, if your topic encompasses both religion and philosophy, you could also search in Philosophers Index. The list of subject specific databases below may be relevant to your research:
Print indexes can be extremely helpful, especially if you are looking for historical material not covered by electronic databases.
Index to Religious Periodical Literature (Available: 1949-1976)
Print counterpart to ATLA Religion Database. Major resource for indexing of periodical articles on religion.
Religion Index One: Periodicals (Available: 1977-1998)
Print counterpart to ATLA Religion Database. Major resource for indexing of periodical articles on religion.
Index to Book Reviews in Religion (Available: 1986-1994)
Continues the book review index section of: Religion Index One: Periodicals.
Index to book reviews in religion: IBRR
Cumulated and revised edition of book reviews from Index to Religious Periodical Literature. Covers 1949 to 1974 in 3 volumes.
Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (Available: 1981-1992)
Coverage of essays on religious topics included in multi-authored works.
An index to English periodical literature on the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern studies
Covers over 600 journals spanning 200 years
An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopaedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899
Important resource for historical materials. 58,000 articles from over 600 journals. Arranged by subject heading.
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (Available: 1985-1993)
Continues: Catholic Periodical Index and absorbed Guide to Catholic Literature
Index Islamicus, 1906-1955
A catalog of articles on Islamic subjects in periodicals and other collective publications
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (Available: 1965-1993)
Focus is on the history of the Reformation
Christian Periodical Index (Available: 1956-1991)
Indexes publications of a primarily evangelical and fundamentalist nature.
Alerts are the most convenient way to stay current with scholarly literature. Click here for a guide to setting up table of contents alerts for the most recent issues of specific journals.