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Associations Unlimited

Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. 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.

A tutorial has been provided to help you learn to use the ATLA-RDB and ATLAS effectively. To access the tutorial, click HERE. Or, go to our Tutorials page, then, click on Tutorial for the ATLA Religion Database online .

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.

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. Then, click Early American Imprints.

FirstSearch Databases : including WorldCat

Valuable collections of reference information are provided by OCLC using the FirstSearch interface. Among these are WorldCat, WorldCat Dissertations, ArticleFirst and Wilson Select Plus. To access this resource online, click HERE. When the program opens, you can select the database you want from a drop-down menu or the Databases tab.

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. The Morton Library subscribes to the Humanities and Social Science subset of this database. 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. 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 for purchase as a download in PDF format.

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, or Pam Wells, our Serials and ILL Librarian.