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THEO 4401 Inklings (Selected)

Tolkien specifically

"Bibliography (in English) for [year]." Annually, from vol. 1, 2004, in Tolkien studies: an annual scholarly review, a University of Washington journal.
Use in conjunction with "Year's work in Tolkien studies [year]," another regular feature of Tolkien studies. Vols. 2-8 are available as e-books via the SPU Library's discovery system. Tolkien studies is also a University of Washington journal.

Literature

MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Biography is a core index to literary criticism and the humanities, with emphasis on literature, folklore, languages, and linguistics. Its coverage extends from 1926 to the present.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
A University of Washington database.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Indexes the literature on science fiction and fantasy.
The University of Washington Libraries' English Research Guide

Theology

Atla Religion Database & AtlaSerials
This database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes journals and essay collections in religion, with links to full text. Its coverage extends from 1949 to the present, with some retrospective indexing underway.

Christian Periodical Index
Available in paper on the Index Tables, Reference Area, Main Level.

Index Theologicus (lxTheo)
indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus Festschriften and congress publications. Its coverage extends from 1970 to the present.

Religious and Theological Abstracts
A University of Washington database.

Multi-Disciplinary

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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges back as far as 1887 for some titles.

The following is a short list only:

Essay and General Literature Index
REF AI3 .E752 (through 1999) and University of Washington Suzzallo Reference AI3.B7.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
A University of Washington database.
Web of Science
A University of Washington database.

Non-Serial

"Inklings Bibliography." Mythlore: a journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy studies.
-Winter 1995.

In addition to the many non-serial bibliographies in book or article form (just for example, Judith Anne Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986), or Åke Bertenstam, "A Chronological Bibliography of Books about Tolkien," 12th ed. (July 2015)),