Research Guides: Ancient Near East 10: Jerusalem: Holy City : Find/Evaluate Articles

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RAMBI (Index to articles in Jewish Studies)
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Databases (offered through the UCLA Library)

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
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Contains records from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index for journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century to the present.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion; includes articles written in 36 languages.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Indexes publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations. Coverage is from 1934 to the present.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
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Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to over 2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews from 1906 to present.
Near eastern studies; History; Political science; Religion; Muslims; Islam; Islamic Studies
Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive, annually published guide to articles, book reviews, feature stories, and other contents in English, appearing in more than 200 specialized Jewish studies periodicals published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of most disciplines. Indexes major journals with all cited references captured. Combines the following citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
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