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The Library’s
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Databases Available through Your library
Your Portal to Online Resources for Research
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ATLA Religion Index
Articles, essays in books, book reviews in religious journals. Includes a Scripture Index to articles
ATLA Religion
Index (EBSCOhos
t)ATLA Religion Database
with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book
reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of
religion with ATLA's online collection of over 80 major
religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion
Database includes more than 575,000 article
citations from more than 1,679 journals (506
currently indexed), more than 239,000 essay citations from over
16,800 multi-author works, and more than 530,000
book review citations. Full text is provided for
more than 294,000 electronic articles and book
reviews.
• Some coverage goes back to the 19th century;• Good coverage of German language resources• Scripture verse indexes • Personal accounts• Export option uses EndNote’s “RIS” import filter
Academic Search Complete
Index and database of full-text articles from over 1000 current journals.
Academic Search
(EBSCOhost)Academic Search
Complete is the world's most valuable and
comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than
13,200 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 1,400 journals.
• Coverage mostly since 1990s to within last 12 mo
• Search and list cited references in many journals
• Personal account for storing records and searches
• Schedule repeat searches• Export option uses EndNote’s “RIS” import
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JSTOR
Full text of older articles in history, literature, music, philosophy, etc.
JSTORJSTOR offers high-
quality, interdisciplinary
content to support scholarship and
teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences, as well as select
monographs and other materials valuable for
academic work. Journals are always included
from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous
and unrelated titles. The entire corpus is full-text
searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and
is interlinked by millions of citations
and references.
• Basic coverage in religion, philosophy, and history• Searchable full text• Save citation and searches in MyJSTOR• Export option uses EndNote’s “RIS” import filter
Dissertations Online (ProQuest)
Citations, abstracts, and full-text of most dissertations completed at US universities. Updated monthly.
Dissertations Online
(ProQuest)Includes 2.7 million searchable
citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are
available for download in PDF format.
The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added
since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage
for older graduate works.More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations
publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-
word abstract written by the author. Master's theses
published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where
available, PQDT provides 24-page previews of dissertations
and theses.
• Refine results by limiting searches to title and abstract• Includes citations to some British dissertations• Use “Look up citation” to find specific title• Save searches to MyResearch• Export option uses EndNote’s “RIS” import filter
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D.Min Full Text (TREN)
Full text of dissertations, theses, and D.Min projects from evangelical seminaries and colleges
TREN DatabaseThe Theological
Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a
library of over 10,000 theological thesis/ dissertation titles representing research from as
many as 70 different
institutions. Many of the resources are
not otherwise indexed or
available online.
SWBTS students can download e-
docs at no charge.
• Use * as wildcard in title, author, or subject keywords• Add citations to EndNote manually
Theological Journals
SearchA Google custom
search of over 340 religion journals
related to scripture studies, systematic theology, practical
ministries, and cognate disciplines for which full text is freely available on
the Internet. Among the searchable
ejournals are many of those listed in
major religion Internet directories and ejournal sites.
• Based on articles gathered by Google • Includes online versions of print journals• Search as you would Google; refine results • Enter information into EndNote manually or find
citation in a database and add url from Google Scholar
Google Scholar
and Google Books
Comb through more than 500 billion
words from more than 5.2 million
books spanning from 1500 to recent years with a few taps and a click. Includes books
from seven languages.
Uses regular Google Search techniques.
Many books can be previewed or read
online. Books published before
1924 can be downloaded.
• Advanced search screen at http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
• Every book has a summary page• Save titles to My Library• No apparent way to export to EndNote. Instead
search Lib Cong to create record. Add url found in Google Books.
Southern Baptist Periodical Index
The SBPI is a cumulative cover-to-cover index to around 30-50 periodicals issued each year by historically Southern Baptist Convention-related agencies, institutions, and associations at the national
level of organization. Subject coverage ranges
widely but includes theology, Baptist history and practice,
worship, church music, church administration and
development, religious education and ministry, Baptist
colleges/universities/seminaries, missions and
missions education, family life and parenting, and Christian
life. Indexed periodicals
include reviews of books, motion pictures and videos,
compact discs, web sites, etc., ranging from the scholarly to
the popular.
See the Sources button on this site for a listing of all the titles (over 100) that have been indexed 1985 to the present, showing years covered for each title.
Latest entries are from 2008. Browse the thesaurus to see the list of terms used to
identify the topics.
WorldCat.org
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WorldCat.org is part of a new generation of library resources. Primarily a database of books and journal citations, it also shows locations where you can find a copy of the book or journal title. Enter your ZIP code and WorldCat will show you the nearby libraries that own the item. You can even click on the library name to discover the book’s circulation status.
If you create a personal account within WorldCat, you can create and share lists of citations you want to keep.
The Advanced search lets you combine terms and set limits.
Another way to search SWBTS Libraries’ holdings—from your mobile phone, too.
From the main screen, you can limit your search by type of media. When you search for articles, you are searching the tables of contents for over 15,000 journals and magazine titles. The database is updated daily.
WorldCat.org
This record screen hints at all the information available about the book. You can “Find a copy in the library” or “Buy it” from an online vendor. If another WorldCat member has written a review of the book, you can read it here, too. Notice the blue text on the right. These are hyperlinks to the records of other books with the same subject headings: “Find one book on your topic and you can then find many more”