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Academic Search Complete

A valuable comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,990 journals and a total of more than 10,400 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals. To access this resource online, click HERE.

ATLA Religion Database Online

Finding articles in periodicals or essays in multiauthor works is an important part of graduate research. In the field of religious studies, the best index to this type of material is the Religion Database (RDB) created by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). It is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. To access this resource online, click HERE.

In addition, ATLA-RDB provides full-text access to ATLAS, an online collection of more than 100 major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Users are able read scanned images of the articles they have selected directly through the database.

Our subscription to this essential resource has just been shifted from OCLC FirstSearch to the EBSCOhost platform. We plan to create a detailed new tutorial to help people learn the special features of this new resource platform.

Book Review Index Online

Book Review Index Online (BRIO) offers access to more than 5 million book review citations in all academic subject areas; these include more than 634,000 full-text reviews. These will be especially valuable to you when doing interdisciplinary research in fields not limited to theology or biblical studies. To access this resouce online, click HERE.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index

This index, developed by the Catholic Library Association, provides a detailed reference resource for in-depth research into Catholicism and related subjects. The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Digital Karl Barth Library

A comprehensive, searchable database of the works of theologian Karl Barth in German. A refined search interface allows you to locate specific terms or passages in Die kirchliche Dogmatik or the first 36 volumes of his Gesamtausgabe, including hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures and articles. Some treatises and personal papers are also available on the site in English translation (more in English is to be added soon). To access this resource online, click HERE.

Education Research Complete

An extensive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. To access this resource online, click HERE.  

Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception

This unusual new resource is, first of all, a detailed and scholarly Bible dictionary online. It discusses the usage of each term or name in the Scripture itself -- for example, the patriarch Abraham. It first discusses Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, with a history of scholarly criticism about this figure. Then it discusses the passages mentioning Abraham in the New Testament : in the Synoptic Gospels, John, Acts and so on. A proper Bible dictionary will do this much.

But then the EBR goes on to detail the understanding of the figure of Abraham in Hellenistic, Rabbinic and medieval Judaism, in modern Judaism, in various Christian traditions, in medieval and Reformation Christianity, in modern Western scholarship, in Islam, and in other ecumenical and religious movements. The entry also discusses the figure of Abraham as he has appeared in literature, the visual arts, popular iconography, music and film. Each section includes many precise references to textual, scholarly and artistic sources, plus a bibliography of representative critical writing on the subject. Each entry is also heavily cross-referenced.

The online format permits the entries to be further developed and edited over time, and in some places they are still in preparation. It offers a great range of information in a convenient and accessible form. To access this resource online, click HERE.

ERIC : Educational Resources Information Center

ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. It provides access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

ERIC currently indexes more than 600 journals, the majority of which are indexed comprehensively — every article in each issue is included in ERIC. Some journals are indexed selectively — only those articles that are education-related are selected for indexing. In addition, ERIC provides access to a growing collection of full-text journal and non-journal literature in Adobe PDF format, including reports from the What Works Clearinghouse. Most materials published 2004 and forward include links to other sources, including publishers' Web sites.

To go to ERIC's own online search portal, click HERE.

Evans Digital Full-Text

Evans Digital is the online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as augmented by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This set has long served as a major resource for research involving early American history, literature, religion, philosophy, and more. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals. To access this resource online, click HERE.

iPreach (Cokesbury Online Resources)

iPreach offers a large set of contemporary biblical study and preaching resources to pastors and teachers. This extensive collection of commentaries, Bible dictionaries and other reference works provides a breadth of substantial, searchable materials with which to prepare sermons and lessons.

The collection includes resources like the New Interpreter's Bible, the Interpretation biblical commentary series, the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, the Westminster Dictionary of Theology, and many titles in the history of Christian thought, pastoral care & counseling, Christian education, lectionary resources, sermon collections, prayers and worship resources and so on. For a full list, click on "Using iPreach" and then "iPreach Contents" in the blue navigation bar on the left side of the screen.

Note that there are several different search options, including a lectionary search by date or by Sunday in the church year.

Literature Resource Center

Access biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography

The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography on InfoTrac provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, the dramatic arts, literary theory and criticism. It incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals. To access this resource online, click HERE.

New Testament Abstracts

New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion.  In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Old Testament Abstracts

Old Testament Abstracts Online is produced by ATLA in partnership with the Catholic Biblical Association. All abstracts are in English regardless of the language of the original work. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and certain research software related to Old Testament studies. Content from more than 450 journals is covered. Topics include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, and philology. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978. To access this resource online, click HERE.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

PQDT is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word searchable abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Use the "Advanced Search" screen to comb through this large data set efficiently. Once you have selected records you want to keep, you can email or export them already formatted according to a variety of citation styles, such as Chicago 15 or MLA.

In many cases, PQDT provides previews of dissertations and theses : you can download the first 24 pages of the dissertation, look at the Table of Contents and the first few pages of the introduction, in order to determine whether the work fits your needs; you often have the option of downloading the entire text as well. Over 1.9 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and more than 925,000 are available as a download in PDF format.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

A comprehensive database covering scholarly information on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Provides extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. There is some content overlap with the ATLA-RDB, but about 225 of the journals are unique to this collection. To access this resource online, click HERE.

Religious and Theological Abstracts

This source provides bibliographic citations and detailed summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology. It includes a wide variety of periodical literature pertaining to Christianity, Judaism and other world religions, and supplies English-language abstracts or summaries of articles appearing in other languages. To access this resource online, click HERE. For further information about this resource, click HERE.

Other Full-Text Electronic Journals

The Library also subscribes to many scholarly journals in electronic form. These journals offer various levels of full-text coverage. For access to these resources and information about them, click HERE. If you have questions, please contact Paula Skreslet, our Reference Librarian.