Library Research Databases @ Atlantic School of Theology
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- Off-campus & wireless access these research databases and resources is for AST students, faculty and staff only unless otherwise indicated.
| Religion & Theology | Books | Book Reviews | Dissertations & theses | Other Databases |
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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Religion And Theology
- This is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
- More than 600 journals are indexed annually. The database includes more than 1.3 million bibliographic records for journal articles, more than 200,000 essay citations, and more than 400,000 book review citations. Links are provided to 100,000 full text articles.
- This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
- It is an EBSCOHost database.
- There is a brief online tutorial.
Catholic Periodical & Literature Index (CPLI)
- This database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle.
- It 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.
- CPLI Online contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications including, but not limited to, periodicals, books, newspapers, and papal documents. Coverage in the database dates back to 1981.
- It is an EBSCOHost database.
- There is a brief online tutorial.
Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
- Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI) database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
- It is a project of the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools.
- Access is free.
- This 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 2,150 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, nearly 850 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985.
- It is an EBSCOHost database.
- There is a brief online tutorial.
- This database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
- Inlcudes abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
- It is an EBSCOHost database.
- There is a brief online tutorial.
Books
- Library catalogue for AST and most of Nova Scotia's academic libraries.
- OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- A free version of this database is available at http://www.worldcat.org/
WorldCat: theological libraries
- The ATLA Groupt Catalog subset of WorldCat (see above).
- It lists only the holdings of theological libraries.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
The Digital Karl Barth Library.
- Includes Barth’s magnum opus, the fourteen-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik, both in the original language and with the definitive English translation (Church Dogmatics). Translations of numerous other important works by Barth are also included. The collection features the entire corpus of Barth’s works in German. This is an unparalleled resource for students and scholars studying the life and thought one of the twentieth century’s most influential theologians.
- Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
Book Reviews
See also our tutorial on finding book reviews.
- RBL is founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents online reviews of recent books in biblical studies and related fields. It seeks to be comprehensive, international in scope, and timely. This resource is free.
Dissertations & Theses
- Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- RIM indexes and abstracts project reports and theses from over 50 Doctor of Ministry programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in the USA and Canada.
- Access is free.
Other Databases
- This is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for thousands or journals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed.
- This database also offers indexing and abstracts over 8,000 journalsin nearly every area of academic study.
- It is an EBSCOHost database.
- There is a brief online tutorial.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals for articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. It includes selected articles from social science and science journals.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- The Canadian Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and authoritative general reference work ever produced in Canada. It contains some 20,000 articles written by expert contributors from every part of Canada.
- The online version also includes the Youth Encyclopedia of Canada, the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and includes a selection of articles since 1995 from Maclean’s - "Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine".
- The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time.
- Access is free.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- This is an online dictionary/database of important people from Canadian history. It currently lists persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
- Access is free.
- Provides bibliographic records to global information on women.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is a link to some of our electronic journals.
- For a more comprehensive list, see our List of Journals.
- The Education Resources Information Center Indexes journal articles and reports in education.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- You can also search this this database for free from the Education Resources Information Center website.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
- Indexes more than 500 core journals, 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.
- Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
- This is an EBSCOHost database.
- Psychology and related fields in the current and most recent three update years.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
- Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Coverage is 1994 to present.
- It is a OCLC FirstSearch database.
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