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  1. SBTS Online Resources
  2. Other Online Resources
    1. Searching in/for Serial Literature
    2. Searching In/For Books
    3. Online Research/Reference Tools
      1. Select Sites
      2. Encyclopedia
      3. Dictionaries
      4. Bibliographies
      5. General Reference
    4. Other Online Tools
      1.  Search Engines 
      2.  The Invisible Web & Hidden Databases 
      3.  Miscellaneous 
  3.  Online Journals 
    1.  Journals Related to Christianity 
    2.  Journals of General Religion and Spirituality**

 

SBTS Online Resources

 

    • See this screencast tutorial on Cross Searching in the library's online catalog.
    • See this screencast tutorial on Course Reserves
    • The SBTS library provides patrons with access to many databases. They are arranged by subject area on the database page of the library website. You may also search several of these at one time using MetaLib.

 

 

    • You may "instant message" your reference and research questions to the Reference Librarian. If using AOL – Netscape – Compuserve AIM Messaging, IM to Screen-name: SBTS Reference. If using MSN Messenger, IM to reports@sbts.edu.

 

Other Online Resources

 

 

Searching in/for Serial Literature

 

  • MetaLib
  • Theological Journals Search is a Google Co-Op search of over 50 full-text theological journals.
  • Southern Seminary / Boyce Library Databases allows access to over 60 databases, most of which are available in full text using the "SFX" function. See SFX.
  • Southern Seminary / Boyce LIbrary E-Journals arranged by category or subject.
  • Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Often allows citation searches and full-text viewing.
  • Windows Live Academic is a beta version answer to Google Scholar. It indexes mostly scientific journals, but a few humanities references turn up frequently. Nice tool for cross-disciplinary searching.
  • FindArticles.com is powered by LookSmart and covers over 10,000,000 articles across an entire spectrum of disciplines and viewpoints.
  • FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents.
  • The Online Books Page: Serials is sponsored and compiled by the University of Pennsylvania and offers links to freely accessible archives of serials (such as magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals).

 

Searching In/For Books

Resources for Searching the Content of Books:

  • A9/Amazon A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon, A9 searches the "content" of books. Better than Google Books for newer books. Also adds an additional 1-2% discount to purchases from Amazon.
  • Google Books was formerly Google Print and is a marvelous resource for searching for "content". Often allows citation searching and even free full-text viewing. Better that A9 for older books. See GoogleBooks.

 

Resources for Searching for Books:

  • A9 and Google Books
  • Boyce Centennial Library of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
  • WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, the merged catalogs of thousands of OCLC member libraries. Built and maintained collectively by librarians, it contains records for over 1 billion books. You must access this resource through the database page on the library website. (Databases by Subject > Book Reviews/WorldCat > WorldCat).
  • The Online Books Page sponsored and compiled by the University of Pennsylvania, this site offers an index which includes more than 25,000 English works in various formats.

 

Online Research/Reference Tools

Select Sites

  • InfoMine is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a helpful repository of reference, biblical studies, and church history primary and secondary resources. The CCEL search page can even search all their holdings in full text.
  • The Wabash Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is an annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. Contents are arranged by subject area and material type. Use the search page.
  • The Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne is searchable with english, french, german, greek or hebrew.
  • BUBL Information Service of the Centre for Digital Library Research, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. Arranged according to Dewey Classification, the BUBL provides many links to primary and secondary resources.
  • Project Wittenberg is an excellent source of primary and secondary resources by and about Martin Luther and Post/Reformation Lutheranism. Hosted by Concordia Theological Seminary.
  • Repositories of Primary Resources is a listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. Hosted by the University of Idaho.
  • National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections provided by the Library of Congress.
  • ArchivesUSA provides ccess to holdings and contact information of more than 5,480 repositories and indexes to 132,396 special collections. Free 30 day trial.
  • Religion-Online offers more than 5,700 articles and chapters from recognized scholarship (moderate to liberal in theological perspective).
  • The Ecole Initiative seeks to provide an online encyclopedia of early church history. Hosted by the University of Evansville.
  • Roman Catholic Theology and Texts offers resources from the Catholic Enyclopedia to the works of Aquinas. Hosted by Conception Abbey and Seminary (RCC).
  • Project Gutenberg is the first and largest online collection of online books. Use the advanced search and select the LoCC (Library of Congress Classification) by scrolling down to the B class.

 

Encyclopedia

 

Dictionaries

 

Bibliographies

  • Documentation for Biblical Literature - Innsbruck (Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck) contains classified documentation on biblical and biblical-archaeological literature, published in articles, collected works and monographs; since 1990 partly with references to book reviews. Base of recording of articles: approximately 90 complete and approximately 540 relevant annuals and periodicals (see list of periodicals) of the University Library of Innsbruck and the Jesuit Library Innsbruck; completed by titles of the ZID (theological periodicals of the University Library Tuebingen). Base of recording of articles of collected works and Festschriften : acquisitions of the Theological Library of the University Innsbruck (ALEPH); off-prints of authors. Base of recording of monographs : acquisitation of the Theological Library of the University Innsbruck(ALEPH); submissions of authors and publishers. Base of recording of hints to book reviews: data meterial of the Biblical Institute in Rome. Period and media of recording : card-catalogue (1980-1984), since 1985 computerized. Recording and computerization of card-titles in work.

 

 

General Reference

 

Other Online Tools

 Search Engines 

 The Big Four: 

 Other Search Engines 

 

 The Invisible Web & Hidden Databases 

  • The "invisible web" is that portion of the internet that is hidden from search engines, such as those which require a subscription or password to access. Boyce Centennial Library's databases are an example of the invisible Web.
  • Lycos Searchable Databases 
  • Complete Planet  - 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines
  • All Academic Inc.  is a collection of mostly peer-reviewed conference papers and abstracts. The database contains refereed primary research from conventions, journals, and other sources.
  • FindArticles.com 

 

 Miscellaneous 

  • The Wayback Machine  - 55 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago from the Internet Archive. Enter the URL address of a site or page, then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.

 

 Online Journals 

 

 Journals Related to Christianity 

 

 

 Journals of General Religion and Spirituality**

 

 

 

Special thanks to Dr. John Yaeger of Dallas Baptist University for the majority of this journal list.

 

 

 

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This page compiled, edited and revised by Paul W. Roberts

Reference Librarian, Boyce Centennial Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

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