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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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• •  Word & World
• 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
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Proquest Research Library
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective
  • ArtStor
  • JSTOR
  • Google Scholar 
• 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  • Original research and unpublished papers.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
    • Drew Library's recommendations in religion and theology
    • the Wabash Center
• 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
  • University of Toronto
  • Purdue  
  • University of Minnesota

 
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 online Chicago 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