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Library catalog
Library Databases

1. Scholarly Articles

• The Scholarly Periodical
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Evaluating Periodicals
  • Wiki MarkupMagazines for Libraries \ [Ref. PN4832 .M23\]
  • Publisher websites, e.g. 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
  • Wiki MarkupCatholic Periodical and Literature Index \ [Ref. AC13 .C32\]
  • Wiki MarkupMethodist \ [and United Methodist\] Periodical Index, 1961-1980 \1980 [Methodist Center Reading Room\]
• General Indexes
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Proquest Research Library
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective
  • ArtStor
  • JSTOR
  • Google Scholar (again): example of article here but not in ATLA 
• 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

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• 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  • Original research and unpublished papers.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
  U.S. Institute of Peace and
  • 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
  and in Education
  • • the Wabash Center
• Citing

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• Websites
  • Guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style, rule 14.245
  • Guidance from Wisconsin-Parkside

3. The Art of Annotation *    *

• Abstracts vs. Annotations

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• Critical reading

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  • • Identifying the thesis

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  • • Summarizing

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  • • Critiquing

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  • Some guidance from

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    • • University of Toronto

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    • • Purdue

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    • • University of Minnesota