Library catalog
Library Databases
1. Scholarly Articles
- The Scholarly Periodical
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Evaluating Periodicals
- Magazines for Libraries [Ref. PN4832 .M23]
- Publisher websites
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- Finding periodicals at Drew
- Database vendors (e.g. Ebsco) vs. Database publishers (e.g. ATLA)
- Periodical Indexing (e.g. ATLA) vs Periodical Storage (e.g. JSTOR)
- ATLA
- Browsing vs Subject searching vs Keyword searching
- Articles vs. Essays
- Tip sheet
- Print indexes
- Catholic Periodical and Literature Index [Ref. AC13 .C32]
- Methodist [and United Methodist] Periodical Index, 1961-1980 [Methodist Center Reading Room]
- General Indexes
- Quick guide to citing articles in journals, essays in books, and book reviews
2. Websites
- Free vs. Proprietary websites
- Wikipedia
- Evaluating websites (and a chart)
- Kinds of online sources
- Digitized print sources. e.g. Encyclopedia of World Methodism, A Time to Be Born
- Digitized photos of manuscripts and other archival resources, e.g. Wesley letters, Codex Sinaiticus, Dead Sea Scrolls
- Information about organizations, e.g. WCC
- Original research and unpublished papers. e.g megachurches, SSRN, DOAJ, Institutional Repositories
- Bibliographies, e.g. Black American feminisms
- Online journalism, e.g. Frontline and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and NOVA
- Government documents, accessed through GPO Access, e.g. from Dept. of State
- Unique databases, e.g., Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and ERIC
- Statistics, e.g. Adherents.com
- Course syllabi, e.g.from the American Academy of Religion
- Employment opportunities, e.g.idealist.org, HigherEdJobs
- Blogs, e.g. Antiquitopia
- Searching the Web
- Google
- Advanced Search
- Spinoffs, e.g. Google Images
- Classified indexes
- Google
- Citing Websites
- Guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style, rule 14.245
- Guidance from Wisconsin-Parkside
3. The Art of Annotation
- Abstracts vs. Annotations
- Critical reading
- Identifying the thesis
- Summarizing
- Critiquing
- Some guidance from
Library Catalogs
Drew's Catalog
Boolean searching
Cross-field searching
Phrase searching
Authority termsvs. keywords
Browse vs. keyword searching
Saving and emailing citations
Recalling books
Worldcat
Broadening the search to other libraries
ILL and Vale Reciprocal Borrowing
Deepening the search of Drew's catalog
Online Books
Google Books
Oxford Scholarship Online
Ebrary
Dissertations and Theses
Tools for Evaluating Books
Contemporary Authors
Google Books and Google Scholar
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Publisher webpages, e.g. Baker Academicand Ashgate
Book reviews, in databases, and via Amazon
Academic Writing and Citation
* *Some tips on writing
From the University of Wisconsin
From Purdue University
From printed sources
The Seminary Student Writes, by Deborah Core
Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers, by Lucretia Yaghjian
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, by Robert Richardson
And remember Drew's Writing Center
Some quick points and distinctions:
"With the right words, everything could change"--Barak Obama (New York Times, 1/19/09)
Argument vs. Metaphor
The Rule of Three (from Deborah Core)
Grace, Struggle Despair
Intimate, Personal, Subjective
Planning, Writing, Rewriting
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
Summary, Critique, Incorporation
Paper, Paragraph, Sentence
Grammar, Punctuation, Style
Avoiding plagiarism
Some guidance from Purdue
Some guidance from Indiana
From Drew Theo School
A plagiarism test
A plagiarism tutorial
Some guides to Chicago style
From Wisconsin-Madison
From Wisconsin-Parkside
Citing books
In bibliographies
In footnotes
Citing encyclopedia entries
In bibliographies
In footnotes
From Bridgewater State University and Turabian
From the onlineChicago Manual of Style
And from the Manual of Style Q&A page
A sample look for a Chicago-style research paper: pp. 227-230 of Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 5th ed.
Converting from citations in library catalogs and databases to Chicago style
The Art of Annotation
* *Abstracts vs. Annotations
Critical reading
Identifying the thesis
Summarizing
Critiquing
Some guidance from
University of Toronto
Purdue
Earlham
University of Minnesota