This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk at any point in your research, and you can always request a consultation. 

CLIO | Reference Materials | Online Databases | Other Library Catalogs | Web Resources | BC/CUL Services
 

• For keyword searches, AND is automatically inserted between term. You may also use OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase.
• For an author search, put last name, then first name
• You can retrieve materials in English only using the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options

Reference Materials:
Use for getting an overview of a topic, background information, and finding bibliographies.

Encyclopedia of evangelicalism	BR1640 .B35 2004
Encyclopaedia Judaica	DS102.8 .E496 2007
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women’s issues worldwide. Central and South America	HQ1154 .G741 2003
The newest New Yorkers, 2000 : immigrant New York in the new millenium	F128.9.A1 L63 2004
Grove art online / The dictionary of art	N31 .D5 1996
Routledge reference resources online : redefining the online library. Religion resource

Databases/Indexes 
For a more complete list of electronic databases for religion select Philosophy and Religion in the Browse Subjects box.

• Academic Search Premier -- provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

• America: History & Life -- citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history.

• American religion data archive : ARDA -- provides data on religious groups and affiliations in the United States.

• Anthropological Literature -- citations for articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology periodicals and edited works.

• ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS -- citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from religion journals and essay collections.

• Bibliography of Asian studies -- contains more than 545,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published 1971 to the present.

• Contemporary women's issues -- A 98% full-text resource for information about women in over 190 countries.

• Family & society studies worldwide -- Provides citations and some abstracts in social work, social science and family practice.

• Gender studies database -- Combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues.

• HAPI online -- Citations to articles and book reviews in scholarly journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean, or those dealing with topics relating to Latin America, the Caribbean and Hispanic Americans.

• Historical abstracts --  citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present

• Humanities full text -- brings full text (starting 1995) plus abstracts and bibliographic indexes (starting 1984) of noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as lesser known specialized magazines.

• The index of articles on Jewish studies : Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-Yahadut -- bibliography of scholarly articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.

• Index to Jewish periodicals -- English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences -- citations for publications related to the social sciences.

• International political science abstracts -- indexes and abstracts articles in the field of political science (including the sub-fields of public administration, political theory and international relations) published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world.

• JSTOR -- full-text articles from more than 322 scholarly journals.

• LexisNexis Academic -- full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics.

• Old Testament abstracts -- Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies.

• Project Muse -- full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences

• ProQuest -- full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers.

• Religious and theological abstracts -- Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

• Social Sciences Full Text -- citations, abstracts, full text for articles in social sciences periodicals.

• Sociological Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in sociology periodicals.

• Worldwide political science abstracts -- citations and abstracts of journal articles appearing political science journals, 1975 to the present.

Other Library Catalogs
These library catalogs may be of interest or relevance to your research. Their holdings are not in CLIO:

• ALEPH - Jewish Theological Seminary The holdings of the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
• BobCatPlus (NYU Libraries) This is the online catalog of NYU's libraries.
• CATNYP The online catalog of the New York Public Library research collections.
• LEO The online catalog of the New York Public Library circulating collections.
• WorldCat A catalog of catalogs--contains records for the holdings of 24,000 libraries.

Web Resources:

Barnard/Columbia

• General Statistical Sources: New York City and State
• Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Information Resources
• New York City documents
• Politics and government
• Religion (Barnard)
• Religious studies (Columbia)
• Researching foreign countries
• Stats: Abortion
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights Multimedia Study Environment
• Women's studies

Outside Columbia

• Google scholar -- if you connect via this link, rather than directly, Google will know that you are affiliated with Columbia and thus take you directly to the full text of many of the resources.
• SARAI : South Asia resource access on the Internet -- Comprehensive list of links to resources about South Asia, including libraries and bibliographical resources, electronic journals and newspapers, directories of scholars and organizations, culture, language, literature, religion, politics, etc.

Interlibrary Loan/BorrowDirect Books, articles and dissertations unavailable from the Columbia University Libraries may be obtained from other libraries usually without cost to the reader. Request It services. 
 

Consultation Requests Complete an online form  requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library to fill out a paper request. To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. 
 

Last modified 01/23/08 by Jenna Freedman, Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian