Databases by Subject
Philosophy & Religion Research Guide
Philosophy & Religion
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ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO)
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Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in all fields of religion, with coverage from 1949 and some retrospective indexing. | Partial | No | more information | |
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive |
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Biblical Archaeology Review (1975 - present), Bible Review (1985 - 2005 complete) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998 - 2006 complete), plus five popular books. | Partial | No | more information | |
Oxford Handbooks Online |
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Full-text online versions of the Oxford Handbooks, available in seven complete subject modules: Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Literature, Psychology, and History. | Yes | No | more information | |
Philosopher's Index (Proquest)
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Author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. | Partial | No | more information |
Other Resources
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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
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Scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with full text from more than 10,000 periodicals. | Partial | No | more information | |
African-American Historical Serials Collection (EBSCO)
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Includes African American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922 including materials from African American religious organizations and social service agencies. | Partial | No | more information | |
American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955 (EBSCO)
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Searchable, open access database of dissertations from 1933-1955. | Partial | No | more information | |
Artemis Primary Sources (Gale)
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Combines Gale primary source databases into one searchable environment. | No | No | more information | |
ArticleFirst (OCLC)
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Index of articles from the contents pages of journals in business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology and popular culture. | Partial | No | more information | |
Britannica Online |
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Fully searchable version of this authoritative, general encyclopedia. It also includes the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year. | Yes | No | more information | |
Chicago Manual of Style Online (University of Chicago)
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Online version of the 16th and 17th editions of the Chicago Manual of Style. Fully searchable. | No | No | more information | |
CountryWatch |
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Up-to-date news and information on all of the world's countries. | No | No | more information | |
CQ Press Researcher Online |
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Looking for a "hot topic" on which to do a research paper? This database is a great place to start! It offers pros & cons, background information, and in-depth analysis on a variety of topics, issues, and controversies currently in the news. | Yes | No | more information | |
Credo Reference |
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Portal to over 500 highly regarded reference sources. Examples of sources covered include: Art, Business, Food & Beverage, History, Language, Law, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology. | Yes | No | more information | |
Current Contents Connect (Web of Science)
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Current awareness database provides access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, abstracts from recently published issues of scholarly journals, and evaluated websites. | No | No | more information | |
Data Citation Index (Web of Science)
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Indexes data studies and datasets across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and links the datasets/studies with published literature. | No | No | more information | |
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 (Readex) |
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Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past. | Yes | No | more information | |
Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society 1652-1800 (Readex)
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Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past. | No | No | more information | |
eScholarShare (Drake University) |
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Scholarly repository of Drake University. Includes 1000+ electronic theses & dissertations. | Yes | No | more information | |
Gale Virtual Reference Library |
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A collection of reference works on the Arts, Business, Education, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, and the Social Sciences. | Yes | Yes | more information | |
General OneFile (Gale)
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Gale's largest general interest database of articles from general, specialized, and professional newspapers and periodicals, many with full text and images. | Yes | Yes | more information | |
JSTOR |
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More than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources | Yes | No | more information | |
Marquis Who's Who in America |
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Biographical information from various "Who's Who" series. | Yes | No | more information | |
New York Times |
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New York Times access 1851-present. Direct access to virtually all NY Times content from that time period. Requires a separate, one-time registration. For details, visit http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt | No | No | more information | |
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis Academic) |
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Provides over 9,000 full-text news, business, and legal sources. Note: LexisNexis Academic is now called "Nexis Uni." | No | No | more information | |
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
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A database of primary source collections for the 19th Century, primarily British and American, but including material from other nations and in other languages. | Yes | Yes | more information | |
Oxford English Dictionary |
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2nd edition of the 20-volume set. Includes meaning, history, & pronunciation of over 1/2 million words, both past and present. | No | No | more information | |
Oxford Reference Online |
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Access to dictionaries & reference works in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Limit of 5 simultaneous users. | Yes | No | more information | |
Oxford Scholarship Online Ebooks |
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Over 4,000 ebooks published from 2016-present in humanities, sciences, business, and social sciences. Full chapters can be downloaded by PDF. | Yes | No | more information | |
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
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Archive of backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. | Yes | No | more information | |
Project Muse |
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Full-text of scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University and other university presses. | Yes | Yes | more information | |
Reference Universe (Paratext)
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Reference Universe allows users to search the indexes and tables of contents of Cowles Library’s extensive print and electronic reference collections, including specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs. | No | No | more information | |
SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)
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SciELO content includes regional journals from Latin American and the Caribbean as well as titles from Spain, Portugal and South Africa. | Yes | No | more information | |
Springer eBooks, 2010-2021 Collections |
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A collection of electronic books in a variety of subjects. Users have the option to order a personal print copy of ebooks owned by Drake (2010-2021 collections) for $24.99 (regardless of the actual book price). These "MyCopy" books are soft-cover b/w print copies that are mailed to the user’s address. | Yes | No | more information | |
Very Short Introductions (Oxford)
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Concise introductions to a wide range of subjects. | Yes | No | more information | |
Web of Science |
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A multidisciplinary research platform which searches a range of citation indexes and databases, covering over 33,000 of the worlds top journals. | Partial | No | more information | |
Web of Science Core Collection |
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This subset of Web of Science indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines. | Partial | No | more information | |
World History in Video (Alexander Street Press)
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Contains a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow you to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late 20th century. Videos are global in scope, and capture longer-term and multiple perspectives, so you can make connections across cultures and over time. | Yes | No | more information | |
WorldCat (OCLC)
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WorldCat is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. | No | No | more information | |
WorldCat Dissertations (OCLC)
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Bibliographic database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat | No | No | more information |