Chrisitan Periodical Index

The essential resource for researchers from a Christian worldview!

The Christian Periodical Index® (CPI®) (ISSN 2572-1933) is the comprehensive electronic index to journal articles and book reviews from across the evangelical Christian perspective. CPI, first released in 1957, is updated quarterly by ACL volunteers and produced and distributed by EBSCO.

• Indexes more than 190 publications (including 100+ academic journals and 80 peer-reviewed titles)
• Includes over 500,000 articles and reviews from the mid-20th century to present
• Covers major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity
• Produced by the Association of Christian Librarians® (ACL), distributed by EBSCO, and updated quarterly

What is unique about CPI?

• New in 2022! Users can limit search results to linked full-text or peer-reviewed journals, and search by scripture citation
• Contains titles from a wide variety of disciplines that present a Christian viewpoint — education, history, literature, medicine, music, nursing, philosophy, science, and sociology
• 103 titles indexed in CPI are not found in other major religion databases and 70 titles are found ONLY in CPI
• Indexing done by ACL members