Bibliographies are compiled lists of scholarship--books, articles, and essays--in a particular area of research or study. All of the bibliographic databases below allow you to search with keywords, narrow down searches by years of publication, or look for specific types of scholarship, and in specific languages. Some, such as EBSCOhost and the Index Religiosus, give you a good indication of what SLU has online access to, and provide direct access to articles and book chapters. "Bibliographies for Theology" lacks the search functionality of the databases, but it includes valuable annotations to guide you, and is hosted by the North American Patristics Society.
The following bibliographies have a theological or philosophical focus, and will include many titles in church history and patristics. EBSCOhost, which encompasses the ATLA Religion Database, provides direct access to thousands of online articles, and is your best bet. The Index Religiosus and PhilPapers both also require a SLU login, and will provide direct access to many articles as well.
A monumental set of bibliographies, some with annotations, compiled by William Harmless, SJ, a scholar of early Christianity at Creighton University. These bibliographies are current up to the time of Father Harmless's death in 2014.
View a list with short descriptions of all EBSCOhost databases on the EBSCOhost Web site available to SLU and select the one(s) you want to search. Especially useful databases within this collection, linking to thousands of different academic journals, include:
This database continues and effectively supersedes two leading print bibliographies: the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus from the journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. The Index covers the full range of disciplines in Theology and Canon Law, together with all aspects of Church History. It encompasses about 600,000 entries.
A free and open-access bibliography produced by the University Library and the Catholic and Protestant theology faculties of the University of Tübingen in Germany, but has excellent coverage of English-language material. Covers an additional 300 journals that do not appear in the subscription-based ATLA database.
PhilPapers uses advanced trawling techniques and large-scale crowd-sourcing to monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, personal pages, and open access archives. The index currently includes 2.7 million research books and articles. Over 5,000 individuals have contributed content to the index.
The following are the major bibliographies used in Classical Studies and a variety of related fields. They also include scholarship of direct relevance to Early Christian Studies.
Traditionally the preeminent bibliography for Classical Studies, listing scholarly works related to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including early Christianity. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
Among the most extensive database systems in Classical Studies, comprising 750,000 entries of specialized literature, including monographs, edited volumes with all contributions, journal articles, reviews, and dictionaries from all of the modern era and in all academic languages. The indexing of YouTube material and other internet resources is at the moment a unique feature.
Started in 2002, Zenon is the central online catalog of the libraries of German Archaeological Institute. It contains over 1.4 million bibliographic records, plus some digitized documents and online resources. As another leading bibliography for Classical Studies, it is more current than l'Année philologique, but only goes back to 1956.
