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The links and tips on this page are intended to help you find useful scholarly sources for your culture group presentation. If you're still not sure how to get started or you're struggling to find what you need, email or schedule an appointment with Ximena.
Databases: Find articles for your group culture presentation
- EBSCOhost Database A-Z List This link opens in a new windowEBSCOhost consists of a suite of databases that can be searched individually or in combination. For culture topics such as religion, searching all databases at once will give you a variety of results from which to choose.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR contains the complete digitized backfile of core scholarly journals from a broad range of academic disciplines.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Use with Historical Abstracts. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals, books and dissertations on world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Use with America History and Life. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
- SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Search extensively indexed books, monographs, and conference papers. This index features citations with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX covers all subdisciplines of sociology such as anthropology, criminology, demography, ethnic, racial, and gender studies, marriage, family, and social structures, and social work.
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Cover all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual, health education, and testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Some full-text is included. Other full-text may be available via Find-It.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Indexes psychology literature and related disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, cognitive science, and linguistics. Includes journals and book chapters. Use Historic PsycINFO to identify literature published as early as the 1920s. Links occur to full-text when available.
- Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary resource indexes journal literature of the social sciences. Represented disciplines include anthropology, business, communication, criminology, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, history, law, political science, psychology, religion, social psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies. Search by topic, keyword, or author. Identify articles that cited a previous work. Links to full-text occur when available. Also known as SSCI.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Indexes research literature across a wide range of disciplines and formats. Use the library connection to gScholar to get more attached full-text articles.
- Setting Up Your Google Scholar Library LinksVideo by Medical Librarian Joanna Anderson (used with permission). For the most access to full text, in addition to searching for Wright State, search for and add OhioLINK as another library link.
Background Information about Religious Traditions
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices byCall Number: onlinePublication Date: 2006Keep in mind, this encyclopedia is from 2006, but it gives a broad overview of various religious practices, including various sects within religions. It may be a useful way to get a good overview and give you ideas of concepts you can search to find other sources.
Search Strategy Examples - Scholarly Books and Articles about Religious Traditions
These searches are to give you possible ideas. This is not an exhaustive list of strategies; you can formulate your search in many different ways and still find useful results.
(anabaptist* or amish or mennonite*) and (health* or healing or illness*)
(church of jesus christ of latter day saints or "lds church" or mormon*) and
(judaism or jewish) AND visit* AND ( ill* or sick* )
jehovah's witness* and (health* or medic* or illness* or healing or transfusion* or alternative therap* or hospital*)
hindu* and
(islam* or muslim*) and
(roman catholic* or catholic*) and
Note: An * at the end of a part of the word means tells the database to search variations on the word ending that come after that symbol.
