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Scholarly work is often published as journal articles, which you can find by searching in various databases. Each database allows you to search a particular set of scholarly journals. You will want to cast your net wide at first, trying various search words (keywords) and browsing through the results in each database. If you are unfamiliar with scholarly research articles, you might check out the video below.
Religious Studies Databases
- Atla Religion with AtlaSerials PLUS This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. (Note: Portland Seminary alumni have access -- contact circadmin@georgefox.edu for details).
- ProQuest Religion This link opens in a new windowThe Religion Database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
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Video - What is a Scholarly Journal Article? 3 min. 4 sec.
Interdisciplinary Resources
Many of the questions considered in the Seminary cross academic disciplines. Because of this, it can be useful to utilize interdisciplinary databases and search tools.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowPopular multidisciplinary database covering thousands of scholarly/peer-reviewed publications.
- Primo (Advanced Search)Search across the libraries' physical and electronic collections all in one place. Refine your search by location, resource type, date, and more to locate more specific materials.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowCovers a broad array of scholarly literature with a unique search algorithm and a clean and simple interface. Especially useful when utilized in tandem with Primo and other traditional library databases.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowBackfiles of hundreds of important journals in the arts and sciences.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowA catalog of over 110,000,000 bibliographic records held by thousands of libraries.