Search these databases to find up to date academic research papers on your topic.
- Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to over 100 major religion and theology journals, plus an index of content in c. 1,750 journals and book chapters.
- The Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism for freeFree online database, containing many open access journal articles on the subject of Ethics and Theology. Its focus is on theology,intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism. To access full-text articles you must create a free account.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive social sciences database which provides an index to books, journals, newspapers and dissertations dating back to 1951.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Journals and eBooks in arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences. NOTE: We do not subscribe to all of the eBook content in this database. You can filter your results by Access on the left hand menu and selecting “content I can access.”
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Academic literature in the humanities and social sciences. NOTE: We do not subscribe to all of the content in this database. You can filter your results by selecting the Access option “Only content I have access to.” See our Spotlight on Project Muse.
Digital collections of historical material, including newspapers, pamphlets, theatre playbills, and other ephemera. Also known as "primary sources", these can provide rich sources for research.
Read more about these resources in our Spotlight on Primary Sources blog post.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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A cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing digital reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
- British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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The British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
- British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Full text searching of millions of pages of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
- John Johnson Collection This link opens in a new window
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Archive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Primary sources covering British politics, society, and culture, including theatre, music and literature.
- Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Access to close to 100 periodicals for the study of British life in the 19th century - from women to sports and leisure, and from children to humour.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
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An archive of hundreds of digitized journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.