Reference: Subject Reading Materials
Reference materials can be good resources for subject overviews and a means to collect useful keywords. The bibliographies frequently include key texts and thinkers that are associated with a specific subject. To discover more reference materials held in the Stanford Libraries, search Reference Universe, Searchworks, consult with a librarian, or browse the libraries' reference collections.
Tips for using reference sources:
1. Look at the cross-references that many entries provide. These can be helpful in pointing you toward a related or more accurate idea/term.
2. One of the most important elements of any good reference source entry is its bibliography. Take note of the books or articles that the entry's author deems elementary to understanding the individual or idea.
[Sterling, VA] : Paratext, 2002-
"A searchable database of back-of-the-book indexes to subject encyclopedias and other reference works in a wide variety of subject areas. Search the contents of nearly 4,500 reference titles."
Subject Term Searches
Listed below are Library of Congress subject terms, which search only the subject field(s) of the Searchworks catalogue records.
- You can refine your results by using the limiting facets with the left frame.
- Narrow by SUL (Stanford University Libraries) location, publication year, language, etc.
- Addiction
- Arts and Religion
- Catharsis
- Clothing and Dress Religious Aspects
- Costume Social Aspects
- Drama and Audience
- Greek Drama History and Criticism
- Fan Psychology
- Fasts and Feasts
- Funeral Rights and Ceremonies
- Initiation Rites
- Liturgical Drama
- Military and Ceremonies
- Music Social Aspects
- Mother Goddess
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Passion
- Play Social Aspects
- Religion and Symbolism
- Religious Life and Customs
- Sacrament
- Sacred Music
- Sex Role Psychological Aspects
Databases
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
"Provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Abstracts and indexing provided for 8,200 journals in the collection. Coverage is from 1965 to the present."
Chester, Vt. : NewsBank, inc.
"Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Also includes thousands of broadcast transcripts, newswires, video clips, and news blogs."
Dublin, Ohio : OCLC
"Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present."
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson
"Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on art and related disciplines from periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected periodicals. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with 1994; full-text coverage begins with 1997."
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson, 1998-
Index of 420 art publications, including important yearbooks and select museum bulletins, from around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984.
Compact disc ed. Philadelphia, Pa., USA : Institute for Scientific Information, Inc., c1992-
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » Z5937 .A8B
[Evanston, Ill.] : American Theological Association, [Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
"The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Though coverage is from 1949 to the present, not all publications began in 1949."
[Ipswich, MA.] : EBSCO
"The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database includes citations to articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals (over 200), Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith and lifestyle written by Catholic authors and/or produced by Catholic publishers."
Bethesda, MD : CSA, 2003-
"A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world."
[Cleveland Heights, etc., Index to Jewish Periodicals, etc.]
SAL3 » Stacks » Z6367 .I5 V.49 PT.2 2011
Ipswich, Mass. : EBSCO Publishing
"International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs."
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, c1995-
[New York] : JSTOR [New York] : ITHAKA, 1995-
"Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis."
[New York] : H.W. Wilson, 1987-
[New York, International RILM Center]
SAL3 » Stacks » ML118 .R574 V.33 1999 INDEX
"A comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, with abstracts written in English. All scholarly works are included: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, and reviews."
[Philadephia, Pa.] : Institute for Scientific Information
Proquest Social Sciences Databases
Proquest Social Sciences Database--Searches across multiple social science subject databases. Among those included: Alternative Presses; Psycinfo; Sociological Abstracts; Social Services Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); ERIC (Education); PAIS (Public Policy)."
