Wiggin Library provides access to thousands of journals and other periodicals online in addition to print journals and periodicals. This page provides an overview of the most common digital databases used by our students. To learn more about our print periodicals and journals, click the Print tab above.
The Atla Religion Database is an extensive index of journal articles, book reviews, and essays from thousands of full-text religion and theology journals hosted through EBSCO. Containing over 2 million articles, it is one of the largest collections of religion scholarship available to researchers. It contains both full-text articles and abstracts. If you need to access an article that is not full-text, email the citation information to library@meadville.edu and we will attempt to acquire the article through interlibrary loan. Faculty or Student Login Required
The JSTOR Religion and Theology Collection provides access to academic journals covering the history and philosophy of religion. While there is some overlap with the Atla Religion Database, JSTOR-Religion and Theology contains journals not in the Atla Religion Database. It contains both full-text articles and abstracts. If you need to access an article that is not full-text, email the citation information to library@meadville.edu and we will attempt to acquire the article through interlibrary loan. Faculty or Student Login Required
Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) curates high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections. The OADTL contains articles, dissertations, ebooks, and digitized historical documents.
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly literature across various publishing formats and disciplines. This is an excellent source for journals and articles not explicitly connected to the academic study of religion. While Google Scholar sometimes includes full-text access, most often it only includes only a citation. If you need to access an article, email the citation information to library@meadville.edu and we will attempt to acquire the article through interlibrary loan.