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Philosopher's Index
    Contains citations and abstracts from books and scholarly articles in Philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.

ATLA: Religion Database
    Citations in all scholarly fields of religion: biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. Over a million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in more than 34 languages as well as thousands of book review citations.

Index Islamicus

    The Index Islamicus databases indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.

Dissertations and Theses

    Provides citations and abstracts (after 1980) for dissertations in thousands of colleges and universities in the world, especially in North America.

Web of Science

    Web of Science contains the Social Science citation index (1956+), Arts and Humanities Index (1975+), and Science citation index (1945+). Provides cited reference searching to thousands of journals across the disciplines.

Cambridge University Press Online

    The database contains a collection of Cambridge University Press journal titles on Philosophy including the Cambridge Companion series for philosophy and religion.  Other noted journals contained are Utilitas, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and Arabic Sciences and Philosophy. Date coverage varies per journal title.