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Catalog and Databases

Transitions
Dewey to LC
Print to Electronic
"Digital World Demands a New Mode of Reading"
        Ejournals without print analogs (e.g. Bible & Critical Theory, Religion Dispatches, Open Access titles, SPARC)
        Ebooks from publishers (e.g. University of California Press)
        Ebooks via Drew Catalog(e.g. ebooks only on the subject of religion)
        Google Books
        Oxford Scholarship Online
        Ebrary 
        Ministry Matters  
        Electronic reference books and another and another and another (some list here)
        blogs; and finding them: Google blogs, e.g. "Postcolonial theology"
Individual databases to discovery tools (Summon!)

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    New look to the catalog: The Rose Window
        Search methods: simple, advanced, exact
        Boolean searching (tip: enclose each conjoined word in its own parentheses)
        Cross-field Boolean searching (Use search qualifiers: au, ti, su)
        Phrase Searching (tip: hyphenate!)
        My Library Account
    Worldcat
        Broadening the search for books
        Deepening the search at Drew
    Dissertations and Theses: Fulltext!
    ATLA: Searching scripture by pericope or chapter/verse

Beyond ATLA
Reference Universe
TLG and PL/PG
ARTSTOR
Ethnic Newswatch
Women's Studies International
PsycInfo
SocIndex
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Black Studies Center
Statistical Data Sets

Bibliography
    Role of reference works
       Encyclopedia of Religion        
       Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
       Reference Universe
               Searching for Drew's Reference Works
        Searching the catalog for reference books
    Role of Introductions
        The Cambridge Companion to: Augustine, Kierkgaard, Postmodern Theology
        The Blackwell Companion to: Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Study of Religion
        Guides for the Perplexed (Continuum) to: Augustine, Wesley, Heidegger, the Trinity
        Philosophy and Theology (Continuum): Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida
        Routledge Critical Thinkers: Bhabha, Derrida, Levinas, Spivak, Zizek
    Searching for bibliography
        Religion Compass!
        In library catalogs, e.g. Drew
        In periodical databases, e.g.ATLA
        In Dissertations and Theses

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