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PVCC Database Collection (Religion & Philosophy)

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Religion & Philosophy Databases

Alexander Street Press - Religion & Philosophy
Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video delivers hundreds of films documenting philosophical and religious thought and how it shapes human behavior today. The most authoritative video collection of its kind, the database includes carefully selected documentaries, debates, personal interviews, biographies, and other primary source footage. Spanning from the Ancient Greeks to the Frankfurt School, from Hinduism to Christianity, from Classical Chinese Philosophy to American Pragmatism, the collection covers a broad range of perspectives essential to the study of philosophy, religion, current affairs, anthropology, international relations, history, and more.

CREDO Reference
Is on online reference database that contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles including the social sciences. This is good way of obtaining background information on your topic or issue before starting on your real research.

Films on Demand - Philosophy & Religion
A collection of streaming videos on such subjects as the various branches of philosophy, religion and spirituality and world religions.

JSTOR
A high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. Today, academic journals comprise the majority of the content in the archive. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. The most recently published journal issues (past 3-5 years) are not available. However, users can search this material and link to the publisher's site or other online source for access.

Religion & Philosophy Collection
Coverage Range: 1975 - current
Provides fulltext articles from more than 300 journals, 250 peer-reviewed, covering topics of religious and philosphical studies. Publisher: EBSCOhost

SocINDEX with Full Text
Is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,130 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 430 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

 

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