ASIAN/RELIG ST 473: Meditation in Indian Buddhism and Hinduism (Fall 2023) : Find Articles
Locating Article Databases
- Locating Article DatabasesTip sheet for locating article databases by name or subject.
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
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
- APA PsycInfoPsycINFO provides access to ournal 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.
Education
- Education Research CompleteEducation Research Complete is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information in all fields of education, from early childhood to higher ed, including educational specialty fields (e.g. multilingual education, health education, testing), curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.