LibraryDatabases at the AST Library
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Religion & Theology (EBSCO Databases)
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- An electronic collection of journals plus bibliographic citations, featuring full-text PDFs, with searchable texts of articles and reviews
- Coverage areas: Bible, archaeology; church history, mission, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; theology, philosophy, and ethics
- There is a brief online tutorial
Catholic Periodical & Literature Index
- Includes bibliographic records of books, essays, reviews, Church documents, interviews, journal articles, movie reviews, papal documents, and theater reviews
- Coverage areas: all areas of Roman Catholic theology and spirituality
- View the brief online tutorial
- Includes abstracts of articles, reviews, and software and more than 17,300 book summaries
- Coverage areas: New Testament general, Gospels-Acts, Epistles-Revelation, Biblical Theology and the World of the New Testament
- View the brief online tutorial
- Includes abstracts of articles, essays, and software and more than 7,200 book summaries
- Coverage areas: antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, and philology
- View the brief online tutorial
ATLASerials, Religion Collection (alumni access)
- ATLASerials (ATLAS) Religion Collection is an online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians
- Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from as early as 1908 to the present
- ATLAS can be used as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than one hundred fifty different journals
Academic Search Premier (journals)
- A multidiscipline full text database containing full text articles from more than 4000 journals
- Includes indexing and abstracts for over 8,000 journals in 15 major areas of academic study
- There is a brief online tutorial
Religion & Theology (Oxford Online Databases)
Oxford Scholarship Online (ebooks)
- Full text access to more than 600 Oxford books in Theology and Religion
- Sub-disciplines include: Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Literature, Religion and Society, Sikhism, World Religions
Oxford Handbooks Online (reference)
- Full text access to the complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Theology and Religion
Oxford Bibliographies Online (biblical studies)
- Access to extensive bibliographies on Biblical Studies
- Subject areas include: Afterlife and Immortality, Deuteronomistic History, Gospels, Interpretation and Hermeneutics, Judaism, New Testament (Gender, Rhetoric, Textual Criticism, etc)
Oxford Biblical Studies Online (concordances, commentaries, texts)
- Access to six essential Oxford University Press Bible texts, including the latest edition of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, as well as Deuterocanonical collections, Concordances, and the Oxford Bible Commentary
Books
- Library catalogue for AST and 28 other university and college libraries in Nova Scotia
WorldCat (libraries worldwide)
- A global catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
- A free version of this database is available at http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
Gale Virtual Reference Library
- The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers 56 full text online versions of multi-volume encyclopedias, handbooks, and specialized reference sources
- Subject areas covered include: History, Law, Religion, and the Social Sciences
The Digital Karl Barth Library
- Includes Barth’s fourteen-volume Church Dogmatics, both in German and English translation
- Translations of numerous other important works by Barth are also included
RBL: Review of Biblical Literature
- Presents online reviews of recent books in biblical studies and related fields
- This is a free online resource
- See also our tutorial on finding book reviews
WorldCatDissertations (catalogue)
- A catalogue of dissertations and theses available through libraries worldwide
- Includes cataloged dissertations, theses, and published material based on theses and dissertations to the present
Multidiscipline Databases
Academic Search Premier (journals)
- A multidiscipline full text database containing full text articles from more than 4000 journals
- Includes indexing and abstracts for over 8,000 journals in 15 major areas of academic study
- There is a brief online tutorial
- An index of articles from the contents pages of journals
- Offers records from over 16,000 journals in humanities, social sciences, business, science, medicine, technology, and popular culture
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (images)
- 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
- This is a free online resource
ECO: Electronic Collections Online (journals)
- Access to full text articles from more than 8000 journals covering 20 subject areas
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
- ERIC Indexes journal articles and reports in education
- A free version of this database is available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/
- Access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web
- Browse issues digitized by Google for newspapers like The Montreal Gazette, The Sydney Morning Herald, St. Petersburg Times, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- This is a free online resource
- This medical database provides access to over 22,000 detailed abstracts from journals in 11 subject ares such as: psychiatry, experimental medicine, nursing, and toxicology
- A free version of this database is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
- RIM indexes and abstracts project reports and theses from over 50 Doctor of Ministry programs in the USA and Canada
- Access is free
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