My Subject: Theology: Useful Databases

Theology related databases

Search for material including articles, conference proceedings and books. Some, but not all, databases provide links to the full text of articles, where the university has a subscription to that title. You must be a full Middlesex student to access these resources.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window Description: Searches over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters. Subject Scope: Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Development Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Human Geography and Environment, Development Studies, Business and Management, Social Policy, Health, Education, International relations, Media and communication, Psychology, History, Law and Philosophy.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Description: Humanities International Complete provides full text for over 1200 journals, together with books and other published sources from around the world. It also contains all the data from Humanities International Index providing indexing and abstracting for over 2000 journals. Much of its full-text content is not found in other databases.
CIAO This link opens in a new window Description: A wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Subject Scope: Theory and research in international affairs Date Range: 1991 to present Full Text: Yes
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Description: Includes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science and Humanities Social Sciences Citation Index Science Citation Index (See individual databases for more information) Subject Scope: Arts, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences Date Range: Varied Full Text: No
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window Description: Searches articles within over 630 journals published by Sage. Subject Scope: Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine. Date Range: Full Text: Full text availability to a large number of Sage journals.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Description: PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. Over 80,000 references are added annually through weekly updates. Subject Scope: Full breadth of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Date Range: 1806 to present
Westlaw This link opens in a new window Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes and current awareness. Subject Scope: Legal journals, cases, legislation, commentary and current awareness. Date Range: UK cases begin with 1865 and EU cases 1954. UK case law Official Transcripts begin with 1955. Commentary is the current edition.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Features full-text global news content from the present time to 1980s, from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
If you need a quick summary of a topic or a definition please use Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology online, making sure you have logged in first.

Open Access theology related databases

These resources can be accessed and used by anyone.

Bible Gateway Bible Gateway is a searchable online Bible tool with more than 200 versions of the Bible in over 70 languages - allowing searching and translation of scripture passages.
British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts Digitisations of sacred texts of the world's great faiths, with accompanying articles.
Early Jewish Writings A collection of Jewish documents from antiquity with translations, introductions, and links.
The Internet Sacred Text Archive An archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric.
Religion Online A library of resources (articles, books, audiovisual) on religious topics
STEP (Scripture Tools for Every Person) STEPBible is a bible study tool that allows users to: read Bible text; search for and list verses that contain a word, or open a structured list of verses to study a topic; compare different language bibles; research lexical information.
Virtual Religion Index A list of links to religion-related websites, organised by topic

Law databases

JustisOne, now vLexJustis This link opens in a new window
JustisOne has changed to vLexJustis from 1st June 2021. If you still wish to use JustisOne, you can use this link:

http://ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/login?url=https://app.justis.com/

This access will be withdrawn soon, given the move to the new product. Please update your links.
Heinonline - Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window Description: Database of law and law-related issues including articles, comments, notes,book reviews,cases and decisions. Covers more than 90 subject areas published in 29 countries. Also an image-based database providing exact page images as they originally appear in hardcopy Subject Scope: Legal journals and pre 1865 case reports(The English Reports)
Lexis+ This link opens in a new window Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes ,current awareness and Halsbury's Laws of England. Date Range: UK case law since 1865. Journal coverage varies depending on publishers. US case law(State and Federal)-dates vary. Large collection of full text US law reviews/journals-again dates vary.
Westlaw This link opens in a new window Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes and current awareness. Subject Scope: Legal journals, cases, legislation, commentary and current awareness. Date Range: UK cases begin with 1865 and EU cases 1954. UK case law Official Transcripts begin with 1955. Commentary is the current edition.

Library Search: Finding journal articles

Open Access Search Engines

BASE This link opens in a new window Description: BASE searches university repositories worldwide and currently covers some 64,000,000 papers. It is useful for searching for Open Access copies of papers which we do not subscribe to. Subject Scope: Covering all academic subject areas Date Range: N/A Full Text: Yes
CORE (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
Google Scholar (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses and books, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Open Access Digital Theological Library (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. High-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives and stable public domain collections.

Research and Statistics

UK Data Service This link opens in a new window Description: UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC which provides a unified point of access to the extensive range of high quality economic and social data, including valuable census data.

National Statistics Government Portal to statistics from all departments.
ONS - Office for National Statistics Free access to data produced by the Office for National Statistics, and some data from government departments and devolved administrations.

OECD statistics (iLibrary) This link opens in a new window Description: Online access to view and download OECD statistics to benchmark OECD countries and to explore country statistics in detail. Subject Scope: Covers business, health, technology, migration, trade, etc Date Range: Typically 1960 onwards. Full Text: Yes – download as Excel spreadsheets.
Statista This link opens in a new window An extensive collection of statistics, reports and insights.

Images

Use these sites to search for copyright free or creative commons licensed images you can use in presentations