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ARTstor
- ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
- Video Tutorial: ArtStor basics (4:52 min)
Choice Reviews
- Choice Reviews Online is a source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
EBSCO eBooks (formerly Netlibrary)
- Full text of books from major academic and general-interest publishers available online.
EBook Library (EBL)
- An e-book collection in all disciplines from 2006 to the present. Updated daily.
Electronic Collections Online
- Indexes over 3,700 academic journals in all academic disciplines from 1995 to the present. Updated daily.
Filmakers Library Online
- Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Films on Demand (Films for the Humanities and Sciences)
JSTOR
- JSTOR I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and the Life Sciences Collections provide full text access to core journals in the social sciences, the humanities, and the sciences as well as journals in biology, ecology, health, geography, law, mathematics, and statistics. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
- Access the mobile version: http://mobile.jstor.org
Lexis/Nexis Academic
- Wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, with full text of 2,000 journals and magazines. Especially good for legal research.
NetLibrary (Now EBSCO eBooks)
- Full text of books from major academic and general-interest publishers available online.
WorldCat.org
- Bibliography of books, documents, multimedia, Web pages, and more from libraries worldwide. More than 49 million bibliographic records cover material from 2100 B.C. to the present.
- Access the mobile version: http://www.worldcat.org/m
Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online
- The online version of the 16th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The Chicago Manual of Style Online also provides convenient Tools, such as sample correspondence, proofreaders' marks, and a quick guide to citation.
Dictionary of African Christian Biography
- The DACB records the stories of African Christians who have transformed the history of the African church and transformed Christian history. The Dictionary of African Christian Biography is a non-proprietary electronic database covering all the denominations and church branches of African Christianity, including the missionary movement, from earliest times to the present, over all of Africa.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Online version of this authoritative dictionary, which guides users to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Oxford Reference
- Provides access to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in many disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, science, and business.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- An online philosophy reference work. Articles are authored and updated by experts in the field.
Unbound Bible
- The Unbound Bible is a collection of searchable Bibles consisting of: 10 English versions including the NASB; Greek and Hebrew versions (the original Bible languages); 4 ancient versions; 42 versions in other languages
Specialized
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Comprehensive database for religious and theological scholarship. Contains citations from 600 international journal articles, plus full-text for around thirty titles (The full text is ATLA Serials or ATLAS). Also indexes book reviews, multi-authored works, and the Methodist Reviews Index.
- Access on your mobile
BibleWorks 8
- A Bible concordance, it offers six English versions, the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, the complete Septuagint, abridged versions of Hebrew and Greek lexicons, and parsing of every grammatical form in the Bible, plus foreign language Bibles, and older Bible dictionaries and reference works. Available on CD. Campus network access only.
- Click here for additional information on the modules and how to set your browse window version display order.
Biblical Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
- An online bibliographic tool from Oxford University Press, designed to help students and researchers find reliable information sources. The bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and Internet resources
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
- The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 370,000 index citations of articles and reviews 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.
- Access on your mobile device
ComAbstracts and CIOS
- Sponsored by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS). Provides title, author, and keyword indexes all key communication periodicals in addition to topical bibliographies and more.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
- This database is a merger of two key communication indexes: CommSearch and Mass Media Complete. Provides many full-text articles.
- Access on your mobile device
Digital Karl Barth Library
- The collection features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises more than 40 volumes of sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. Also included in The Digital Karl Barth Library is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
- Provides access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras including theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises.
ITER
- Sponsored by the University of Toronto and others, Iter (Latin for 'a journey' or 'a path') is a multidisciplinary index on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Contains an index of interdisciplinary journal articles from 1,710 scholarly journals from 1784 to the present, a bibliography of monographs, and a database reviews of books, journals, manuscripts, performances, etc., from 1990 to the present. Updated daily.
Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors
- Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.
- Video Tutorial: Literature Resource Center basics (4:40 min)
Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
- An online bibliographic tool from Oxford University Press, designed to help students and researchers find reliable information sources. The bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and Internet resources
MLA Directory of Periodicals
- The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
- MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Naxos
- This online collection of music includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues. Genres covered include Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Limit to 5 simulaneous users.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
- Oxford Biblical Studies Online includes over 5,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly works, access to full text Bibles along with commentary and annotations plus maps, illustrations, and timelines.
- Click here for a source list.
Oxford Bibliographies
- An online bibliographic tool from Oxford University Press, designed to help students and researchers find reliable information sources. The bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and Internet resources.
- The Library currently subscribes to the modules for: Biblical Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Oxford Companion to the Bible
- The Oxford Companion to the Bible provides an authoritative one-volume reference to the people, places, events, books, institutions, religious belief, and secular influence of the Bible. Written by more than 250 scholars from some 20 nations and embracing a wide variety of perspectives, the Companion offers over seven hundred entries, ranging from brief identifications--who is Dives? where is Pisgah?--to extensive interpretive essays on topics such as the influence of the Bible on music or law.
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Third edition revised)
- The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church contains over 6,000 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics.
Presbyterian Book of Confessions
- The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA): Part I, Book of Confessions, available online as a PDF document.
Presbyterian Leader
- A resource that includes the following: the Presbyterian Leader Worship Planner, which is an online worship planning resource that enables worship leaders to develop a weekly order of worship that can be exported to a worship bulletin; studies on Presbyterian beliefs and statements of faith; and many other resources that relate to congregational life and leadership within the PC(USA).
- For UD Students, Faculty, and Staff: Click here for the username and password. (To get the username and password off-campus, please use your UD network username (dbq/username) and password).
Presbyterian Worship Planner
- The Presbyterian Leader Worship Planner, which is an online worship planning resource that enables worship leaders to develop a weekly order of worship that can be exported to a worship bulletin; studies on Presbyterian beliefs and statements of faith; and many other resources that relate to congregational life and leadership within the PC(USA).
- For UD Students, Faculty, and Staff: Click here for the username and password. (To get the username and password off-campus, please use your UD network username (dbq/username) and password).
Religion Databases
- Searches multiple EBSCO religion databases: ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, and Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.
Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford Bibliographies
- An online bibliographic tool from Oxford University Press, designed to help students and researchers find reliable information sources. The bibliographies are drawn from books, journals, and Internet resources
Research in Ministry (RIM) Online
- RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.
Seasons of the Spirit (SeasonsOnline)
- An online version of the christian education curriculum, Seasons of the Spirit.
- For UD Students, Faculty, and Staff: Click here for the username and password. (To get the username and password off-campus, please use your UD network username (dbq/username) and password).