ASIAN 100: Yoga - Ancient Philosophy and Modern Practice (Fall 2025) : Find Articles
Database Searching Tutorials
Multi-Subject Databases
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Academic Search PremierLarge, multidisciplinary EBSCO database encompassing most topics.
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Google ScholarScholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research from a wide variety of sources.
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JSTORArchive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by 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
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Bibliography of Asian StudiesProvides access to research and scholarly literature on East, Southeast, and South Asia written in Western languages. Covers all subjects, particularly in humanities and social sciences.
Religion & Philosophy
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA SerialsEBSCO database that provides access to the literature in the fields of religious studies and theology, including journal articles, essays, and book reviews.
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Philosopher's IndexPhilosophy-focused database covering aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of related disciplines such as education, history, law, religion, and science.
Health/Medicine
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Alt HealthWatchJournal articles about complementary and alternative medicine.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health Literature)Health sciences database covering medicine, nursing, and allied health disciplines. Includes care sheets, research instruments records, standards of practice, and educational modules and software.
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Health Source: Nursing/AcademicHealth Source; Nursing/Academic provides more than 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, especially Nursing.
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PubMedCovers the biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also provides access to NCBI databases covering molecular biology. From the NIH's National Library of Medicine.
Psychology
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PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)Large database covering the field of psychology, behavioral science and mental health, including the psychological aspects of medicine, nursing, education, physiology, business, law, and more.
Social Sciences/Sociology
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SocINDEX with Full TextCovers all aspects of sociology, including abortion, criminal justice, ethnicity and race, gender studies, politics, religion, social work, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and more.
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