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Church Documents: Finding Articles

Locating documents of the Roman Catholic Church.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS

JSTOR

LibrarySearch

Databases, Indexes, etc.

Many other Church documents have not been translated. For Latin and other official documents not available in English, please see the reference librarian for assistance.

Theology Journals

Periodical titles UST subcribes to or titles where articles may be accessed via the library's databases: Click on hyperlink:

Religion - General (170+)

Why use periodicals?

Periodicals are useful for three primary reasons:  they...

- provide a wealth of valuable information that is current and timely


- contain the latest discussions on a topic


- cover topics not yet published in book form

Periodicals are created for different audiences. Some are for general readers and others for scholars and researchers.

Although the terms periodical, journal, serial and magazine have slightly different definitions, you will likely hear them used interchangeably. These are works that come out on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, annually) and contain articles written by various authors.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Scholarly peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal.There are anonymous and open reviews.