ASIAN/RELIG ST 460 : The History of Yoga (Spring 2025) : Find Articles
Locating Article Databases
To learn how to locate article databases by name or subject, see the tip sheet below.
Searching Databases
Finding a Specific Article
Multi-Subject Databases
- Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier is a general academic index with almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- JSTORJSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, botany, ecology, economics, education, film, finance, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, middle east studies, music, philosophy, political science, population/demography, religion, sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue, depending on the title.
Subject-Specific Databases
Multi-subject databases are great for getting starting with your research. You may want to go beyond them to search databases that focus on specific subjects. Below are databases in the fields of Asian studies, health, medicine, psychology, and religion that are relevant to this course.
Asian Studies
- Bibliography of Asian StudiesThe Bibliography of Asian Studies lists journal articles about Asia in Western language journals and books. Citations to books were discontinued in 1992. Covers all subjects, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, pertaining to East, South and Southeast Asia published worldwide 1971 - present.
Religion & Philosophy
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLA SerialsATLA Religion Database (formerly ATLA Religion Index) indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works and book reviews.
- Philosopher's IndexPhilosopher's Index contains citations and abstracts from books and more than 350 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and other western countries. Major philosophy journals in other languages are included since 1967. Subject coverage includes aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and the philosophy of related disciplines such as education, history, law, religion, and science.
Health/Medicine
- Alt HealthWatchAlt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. Features abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature)CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health) Plus with Full Text provides indexing for approximately 4,500 journals, covering the subjects of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 other allied health disciplines.
- Health Source: Nursing/AcademicHealth Source; Nursing/Academic provides more than 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, especially Nursing.
- PubMedPubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
Psychology
- PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)PsycINFO includes citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
Social Sciences/Sociology
- SocINDEX with Full TextSocINDEX with Full Text includes full text for 397 "core coverage" sociology journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority coverage" journals. It also includes full text for more than 720 books and 6,743 conference papers. Abstracts for more than 800 journals are available back to 1895. The database encompasses all sub-disciplines of sociology and closely related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
Search Tips
- Use AND to combine different words to find all those words, in any order.
- yoga AND history
- Use OR to combine similar words or synonyms or variations
- health OR well-being
- Upanisads OR Upanishads
- Use quotation marks ( " ") to search words as a phrase
- "hatha yoga"
- Use an asterisk ( * ) to find varied endings of words and singular and plural forms.
- therap* to find therapy, therapies, therapeutic
- Look at Subjects to find additional keywords and use them to find relevant and specific results.
- Look for an option to limit to Scholarly Journals on the left side of search results in most databases