Resources and Tools

The online catalogs and databases below provide access to information about the Yale University Library's rich collections in manuscript, print, and electronic format. Many of these resources, such as journal articles or ebooks, are full-text and, depending on whether they are open access, may be freely available; otherwise, if licensed, they are restricted to members of the Yale community. For specific information about these resources and their contents, including problems of access, please contact Suzanne Estelle-Holmer or Graziano Krätli.

 
ATLA Religion Database
 The premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion, with coverage from 1949 and retrospective indexing for several journal issues as far back as the nineteenth century. Yale only
Quicksearch
 Quicksearch combines the Orbis and Morris catalogs and searches Articles+ all in one convenient fast search. Freely available
Orbis
 Yale University Library's open-access catalog is the main portal to search records for approximately 13 million volumes located across the Yale University Library system. Freely available
MORRIS
 Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library catalog provides access to an extensive collection that is not represented in Orbis. Freely available
Borrow Direct
 Yale patrons can use Borrow Direct to check the availability of and request books, music scores, and other library items from the combined catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania within four business days. It can be used to obtain items that are unavailable for checkout at Yale, not held by the Yale library, or on course reserve. Yale only
WorldCat
 Includes more than 50 million records for books and other materials held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries around the world. Yale only
Articles+
 Articles+ provides a quick, easy and comprehensive search of thousands of journal articles; full-text searchable. Yale only
Digital Collections
 Digital image and text collections from the Yale University Library. Freely available
Google Scholar
 Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Freely available
Archives at Yale
 Finding aids describe archival and manuscript collections at Arts, Beinecke, Divinity, and Music libraries, and the Manuscripts and Archives department in Sterling. Freely available
Research Guides
 Use these research guides to get started in your research, formulate a research strategy for a topic, and find information about print and electronic resources. Click on Divinity or Religious Studies to view over twenty guides relating to these fields. Freely available
Electronic Resources for Religion
 Yale University subscribes to hundreds of databases and electronic resources. This reserach guide will help you to navigate this by complex environment by providing a comprehensive list of all the electronic resources available to Yale University pertaining to religion. Freely available
Find Databases by Title
 Find subject-specific databases by title. Direct links to subscribed and freely available research databases and other resources, such as encyclopedias, bibliographies and dictionaries. Some databases are also "cross-searchable"; that is, they may be searched at one time in combination with other databases.
Find eJournals by Title
 Browse or search for the titles of online journals and newspapers to which the library subscribes or has access for free on the Web.
OverDrive
 Yale patrons my download popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks and audiobooks in a variety of formats. Yale only
Primary Sources
 A guide to primary sources at Yale. Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic, created by witnesses who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but primary sources can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded later. Yale only
 
Yale Divinity School Lectureships
 The Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching was founded in 1871 by a gift from Henry W. Sage of Brooklyn, New York, to sponsor an annual series of lectures on a topic appropriate to the work of the ministry. For a full description and a complete catalog of all the lectures, from 1871 onward, click here.
 
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