LibGuides: Counselling and Spirituality: Journal articles

Recommended Databases

These databases will help you to locate scholarly articles for the relevant subjects

PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines
PsycARTICLES
Covers 90+ major journals in behavioural sciences and related fields.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
This resource includes the previously unpublished transcripts of therapy sessions, pages of first person accounts and pages from relevant handbooks and reference works.
PsychiatryOnline
Provides access to current and previous editions of the DSM, journals, and textbooks published by the American Psychiatric Association.
PubMed
Covers biomedical literature including articles and more. MEDLINE is searchable through PubMed.
ATLA
This database provides international coverage of such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. The full text covers data from 1949 to the present.
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A feature of ATLA is the Genre Limiter, which narrows searches to particular genre types. Among the limiter options are "church documents" and "papal documents," which select for records on texts of speeches, homilies, apostolic pronouncements, encyclicals, and official documents from popes, the Roman Curia, and bishops' conferences.

Related databases

Try these other sources if you are researching an area that is related to counseling and spirituality.

Sociological Abstracts
International coverage. Indexes journal articles from over 1800 journals. Includes abstracts from books, book chapters, conference papers, and dissertations.
AnthroSource
AnthroSource provides full text access to journals from the AAA (American Anthropological Association).
ProQuest Social Sciences
New Testament Abstracts
New Testament Abstracts Online indexes periodical literature related to the New Testament and its historical milieu.
Old Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts Online features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
GenderWatch
Focuses on gender issues across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

More multidisciplinary databases

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database designed specifically for academic institutions, it includes full text of journals, magazines, and newspapers. It is the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.
Gallica
The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France offers free access to 70,000 digitized works, more than 80,000 images, and many audio resources from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Covers the humanities and social sciences literature from from 1907 to 1984.
JSTOR
Full text archive of scholarly journals in all many disciplines.
Periodicals Archive Online
Full-text journal articles in the humanities and social sciences from several hundred scholarly journals.
Project Muse
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable, and user-friendly online access to over 300 high-quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Web of Science
Covers key research journals in science, engineering, medicine, social sciences and humanities and is useful for searching by cited reference.
Érudit
Érudit is platform of the interuniversity consortium of Quebec. Contains index and full-text of the academic journals published in Quebec.

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Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Use this directory to locate relevant Open Access Journals on your topic

Frontiers in Psychology

Frontiers in Psychology is an open access interdisciplinary journal that aims at publishing the best research across the entire field of psychology.

Selected Online journals

Feel free to browse these online journals for new articles and trends in counseling and spirituality:

Google Scholar Search

You can set Google Scholar to display links to your library electronic resources. Click on Settings, then Library links, enter "University of Ottawa". When you search in Google Scholar, the links to the Link Resolver "Get it" will be displayed next to your results.

By logging into your Google account, you can also set up a search alert for scholarly articles indexed by Google. Use the alert icon at the top of the search screen.