LibGuides: Catholic Studies: Find Articles

Article Databases and Indexes

These are the best places to start looking for articles in Catholic Studies. You can also see our full list of Databases.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of scholarly journals in multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
Tip: Use 'Advanced Search' to limit to the subject collections appropriate to your search.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
This is the previous 'ProQuest' database in this list. As of March 2021, it is also included in the larger ProQuest Central database.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1.5 million scholarly articles relating to scientific research as well as many humanities and social science disciplines.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text back issues of key academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope, with 500 full-run titles spanning 200 years.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to articles in over 250 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 40 university and society presses.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
Four core multidisciplinary products (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Ebook Central, Academic Video Online, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global), cross-searchable together on the ProQuest platform. Provides unified access to journals, e-books, dissertations, news, and video.

Key Journals

There are many journals, both print and electronic, with valuable content for Catholic Studies research.

These are just some of the titles available in the library:

Using Citation Trails

Citation trails are a way of moving backwards and forwards in the research timeline, finding older or newer sources related to the books or articles you are using. There are a number of ways of using citation trails.

You can check the reference list, works cited list, or bibliography of a research source to find the sources which the authors used in their research. These sources might also be useful for you.
In Novanet, the library catalogue, you can use citation trail symbols which can be found in some article listings, like this one:

The first symbol, with the arrows pointing up, will lead to other sources which have cited this article. This will not be a complete list of all items which have cited this article; the system only links to sources to which we have access.

The second symbol, with the arrow pointing down, will lead to sources cited in the original article. Again, these will only be the sources to which we have access.

If you find a source listed in Google Scholar, you can use the "Cited by" tab underneath the listing to find other sources which have cited that source.
The database Web of Science includes Citations and References options for most articles, listing the sources which have cited the original article, as well as the sources cited within that article.

If you have any questions about using citation trails, please Ask a Librarian for help.

Search Google Scholar

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How to Find Articles in Novanet

This short video shows how to find articles in Novanet, the Library Catalogue.