Online Reference Sources

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) 
• To access ARTstor Mobile, you must first create an account on the full ARTstor site. Thereafter, you can navigate with your mobile device to http://mobile.artstor.org and log in with your ARTstor login and password.

Aviation Scholarship Directory 2009

• (If off-campus, need to login using network username (dbq/network username) and password.

Books in Print with Reviews

• Bibliographic information about books, plus reviews from journals.

Britannica Online

• Includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and thousands of Web links and other Web sites selected by the Britannica editors.

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.

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.

Credo Reference

• Search online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources to find definitions, statistics, images, etc.

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.

Dictionary of Information Science and Technology

• The Dictionary of Information Science and Technology is a continuously-updated, full-text database including the latest terms and definitions in the fields of information science and technology.
  
  

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.

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 specialists.
• Users must download the free app from the iTunes store, and then locate the University of Dubuque in the navigation menu. Enter your dbq.edu email address to have an access password emailed to you.
• Once authenticated, you can search the Libraries' Gale databases and ebooks from your mobile device. The search interface is not optimized for mobile, however, and the user will be directed to the same web sites one can access from the Libraries' web pages.

Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization

• The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization is a comprehensive reference work on the history and impact of Christianity. Bringing together over 350 international scholars and 1,402 entries, this work spans issues ranging from theology, politics and law, through to literature, art and architecture.

Foundation Directory

• Information on the 10,000 largest foundations in the United States.
• 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).

Handbook of Style: Student Supplement (Society for Biblical Literature)

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.

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.
  
  

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).

SBL Style Guide (John Brown University Library)

Scholarships, Fellowships, & Loans

• This online directory provides sources of scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships, work study, and other education-related financial aid at all levels of study.
  

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• An online philosophy reference work. Articles are authored and updated by experts in the field.
  
  

Ulrich's Periodical Directory

• Ulrich's is an authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types-academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

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

Vault Online Career Library

• This database provides access to career information including resume and cover letter guides and samples, company and industry profiles, and career advice articles. Sponsored by the Office of Career & Life Services and Diamond Program.