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General Resources & Databases
On-Line Resources
EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost is an on-line service which allows the searching of several bibliographic databases. Some of these databases do provide links from the bibliographic entries to a full-text, on-line documents. This service can be utilized at the library or from your home or office computer.
This service is available ONLY to NOBTS students and faculty. Passkeys may be obtained by contacting the library and giving proof of your relationship to the seminary.
Some of the databases available through this service are: ATLA, ArticleFirst, Christian Periodical Index (CPI), PsycInfo, ERIC, Academic Search, The Music Index -- and more!
Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
The CPI indexes a number of journals that are more professional in nature than ATLA indexes.
ProQuest Religion & Dissertations Database
This on-line service through ProQuest complements the ATLA database in the FirstSearch System. As with ATLA, this database is a bibliographic index of religious periodicals -- some not indexed in ATLA. This service is available ONLY to NOBTS students and faculty. The URL & passkeys may be obtained by contacting the library and giving proof of your relationship to the seminary.
Utilizing the same interface as ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Dissertations can be accessed here. This is an online service for NOBTS students ONLY. Here, students may access dissertations and theses (UMI) online and even download them if desired.
WorldCat
This is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Search thousands of libraries for book titles, journal titles, media titles and more. If the NOBTS libraries do not have an item you need, you may be able to request the item via InterLibrary Loan.
Southern Baptist Periodical Index (SBPI)
This index, produced by Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO) indexes 80 Southern Baptist periodicals. This service is available ONLY from the main campus.
Contemporary Authors
This on-line service allows you to search for biographical information on authors. Unless an author is well-known, you may need to utilize other resources. This resource is accessible only by obtaining the URL and passkeys from the circulation desk.
TLG (Thesaura Lingua Graece)
This is a Greek Language database containing the texts of Plato to Paul and many others. It has several search functions and utilizes the Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon.
Research in Ministry (RIM)
This database is available at no charge on the ATLA web site. Multiple search field will access nearly 500 submissions a year representing the most current reports and theses from approximately 50 Doctor of Ministry programs accredited by the Association of Theological School in the Untied States and Canada. Bibliographic access is available by author, title, institution, and subject headings. Some abstracts are available.
TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network)
TREN is a library of over 8,000 theological dissertation/thesis titles, representing research from as many as 70 institutions offering D.Min., Th.M., M.A., and other theologically related degrees. TREN also makes available papers presented at several academic society meetings. This is a bibliographic database, but items on the TREN web site are available for purchase.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
"A free search and discovery tool from Oxford University Press. The Index is designed to help users begin their research journey by providing a single, convenient search portal for trusted scholarship from Oxford and our partners – from journal articles to scholarly monographs. This ... includes a cross-searchable set of nearly 250,000 free 'index cards', each representing a single OUP article, chapter, journal or book. Index cards display key information (including abstracts and keywords) about a work, thereby helping users judge its relevance to their research before following links into the full-text."
Tyndale House
Tyndale House Doorway to Biblical Studies. Provides links to biblical studies resources.
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. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. MORE on how to use Google Scholar
Search diverse sources from one convenient place
Find papers, abstracts and citations
Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
Learn about key papers in any area of research
Dissertations Abroad
The following resources are available online to assist students in their dissertation research by accessing bibliographic databases for dissertation in other countries:
- British Library -- https://ethos.bl.uk/Logon.do;jsessionid=2DC9DB3569B2A5698B930CA8B3E60AC1
- ABES (French) -- http://www.abes.fr/abes/DesktopDefault.aspx?Loupe=Moin
- German dissertations -- various dissertation archives are listed centrally as Dissertationen Online.
- CRL (Center for Research Libraries) -- http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu
- Academic Dissertation Publishers -- http://dissertation.com
NOBTS / John T. Christian Library Virtual Reference Room
You can also use our library's virtual reference room for links to online resources, listservs, discussion groups as well as lists of key print resources.
PERSEUS PROJECT
Digital library of classical, Renaissance, and many other documents and items. A digital project of Tufts University.
Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts
From the National Library of the Netherlands a searchable catalog (with images) of illuminated manuscripts.
Introduces people to quotations and sayings from famous authors, poets, artists, politicians and others.
CD ROM Database Resources
These databases are accessible only in the library.
CetoDoc
Latin writings of the early Church and the Church Fathers are found on this database.