Online Databases and Reference Works for Church History

Academic Search Premier (full-text)
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated daily
Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc.
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ATLA Religion Database (some full-text)
Coverage: 1949 - present, updated quarterly
Covers topics such as: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics.
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Catholic Periodical & Literature Index (some full-text)
Coverage: 1981 - present, updated annually
The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
This is a guide to every aspect of the Christian religion and life, including theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations, the church calendar and organization, and the Bible.

History Cooperative (full-text)
Offers full-text access to the current issues of 9 history journals

JSTOR (full-text)
Electronic access to a full-text archive of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines.
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New Catholic Encyclopedia (full-text)
Presents persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities.

Oxford Dictionary of Popes (full-text)
Presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI. This edition has a new expanded entry on John Paul II. Providing a continuous history of the papacy, it also includes all the irregularly elected ‘antipopes’ and discusses the tradition that there had been a female pope.

Oxford Dictionary of Saints (full-text)
Provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints, including entries on the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padro Pio, and Josémaria Escriva.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (full-text)
Provides information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature. This broadly cast, interdisciplinary definition allows for a comprehensive social and intellectual history of early modern Europe.

Project Muse (full-text)
Project MUSE provides full-text online access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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RefWorks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To create an account from off-campus, you will need the RefWorks Group Code.
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Coverage: 1978 - present, updated annually
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.