Reference Sources

General Religion
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed., 15v [R.R. BL31 .E46 2005]
Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. [R.R. BL473 .C67 2000]
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. 2v [R.R. BL458 .E53 1999]
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. 3v [R.R. BL458 .E52 2006]
Pilgrimage, From the Ganges to Graceland: An Encyclopedia. [R.R. BL619 .P5 D38 2002]
Encyclopedia of Sacred Places. [R.R. BL580 .B76 1997]
The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites. [R.R. BL580 .W55 1996]

Buddhism
Encyclopedia of Buddhism. [R.R. BQ128 .E53 2007]
Encyclopedia of Buddhism. 2v. [R.R. BQ128 .E62 2004]
The A to Z of Buddhism. [R.R. BQ130 .P73 2001]
A Dictionary of Buddhism. [R.R. BQ130 .K46 2003]
Encyclopedia of Buddhist Deities, Demigods, Godlings, Saints and Demons. [R.R. BQ130 .B88 1994]
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism. [R.R. BQ9259 .B37 2002]
Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions. [R.R. BL2210.5 .N36 2006]

Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. [R.R. B121 .E53 2001]
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. [R.R. B121 .C66 1997]
Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy. [R.R. B126 .E496 2003]

Art
Dictionary of Art. 34v. [R.R. N31 .D5 1996]
This source contains an article on Buddhism as well as articles on the art of various Asian countries, e.g. China, Thailand, Korea, etc.

Buddhism. (Flammarion Iconographic Guides) [R.R. BQ5100 .L68 1995]

Search the rich collections of St. Olaf and Carleton with BRIDGE. Search either by official Library of Congress Subject Headings or by Keyword. Once you find a relevant source, make sure you follow the subject heading links. If you'd like to search outside of Northfield, use WorldCat. If you use the advanced search page you'll be able to limit by language, format and date.

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

Subject Specific Indexes

Art Index - Indexes English-language art periodicals, plus museum bulletins, bibliographies, film reviews, and conference reports. Covers 1984 to the present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies - An index to scholarly, western-language publications on East, South, and Southeast Asia in the fields of history, the humanities, and the social sciences. Indexes journal articles, monographs, government documents, and conference proceedings. Covers 1971-present.

Historical Abstracts - An index to history journals, books, and dissertations. Covers material published from 1955 to the present written about the time period 1450 to the present.

ATLA Religion Database - an index to religion journals, book reviews, and chapters within books. Covers 1949 to the present.

Philosopher's Index - An index with abstracts to Philosophy books and journals in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Full Text Collections

Jstor - An index to and full text of select, academic journals.

Project Muse - An index to and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly publishers.

Multidisciplinary Journal Index

Academic Search Premier - This database provides access to over 8040 multi-disciplinary publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present.

Images

ARTstor - A "repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data." Covers architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many cultures.

Note: You can also find images on the Internet, however you should cross-check the descriptive data (meta-data) associated with these images. ARTstor is much more reliable and the images are of a higher quality.

Web Sites

There are many ways now to access the web. You have all done Google searches by now but the results are often overwhelming or unsatisfying. There's a better way to start -- by following time honored routes applied to new technologies:

Librarians' catalogs of web sites:

Scout Report: Reviews of web sites; searchable by keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings
Infomine: Web sites"collected" by academic librarians -- full descriptions and subject headings
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Aimed more at public library patrons but still useful for many topics

Google and Google Scholar

GoogleScholar [scholar.google.com] is supposed to take you to scholarly or governmental sites. It works quite well by and large. However, if you end up at pay-for-use journal articles know that we usually have access to the SAME articles through our databases above, that we've already paid for.

Google [www.google.com] takes you to any and all web sites which match your criteria. The advanced search lets you tailor your search a bit but you're likely to end up with many matches.

Citation

EndNote Web® is software on the web that you can use to gather your citations and then generate a bibliography. Each of you has been already set up with a log in that you can use to access your account. Aside from the basic instructions handed out in your library session, there are guides on the EndNote Web site as well.