Mickel Library

Internet Resources by Subject

Religion

Where to Start

Religion - from Academic Info

Religious Worlds

Religious Studies - from Voice of the Shuttle

Virtual Religions Index

 
Periodical Indexes/Abstracts/Articles

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides indexing to over 8,000 periodicals and includes the full text of nearly 4,700 of these titles (approximately 3,600 are peer-reviewed journals). Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating back as far as 1975. Available to the Converse community both on the campus network and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information on off-campus access.

InfoTrac
Covers academic journals, magazines, newspapers. Includes citations, some abstracts, some complete articles. Available to the Converse community both on the campus network and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information on off-campus access. For journal titles included in the InfoTrac databases, click here.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

 
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
General

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (Available only on Converse campus.)

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Grolier Online Encyclopedia .
Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Please contact a librarian for off-campus access.)
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

Literature Resource Center

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Over 100 subject-specific encyclopedias from Oxford University Press

 
Subject-Specific

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

Encyclopedia Mythica

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Judaism, Christianity, Islam Glossary

 

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