Transitions
Dewey to LC
Print 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. The Myth of Religious Violence, by William Cavanaughebooks only on the subject of religion)
Google Books
Oxford Scholarship Online
Ebrary books
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!)
Online Library Helps
Research Tutorial
Database Guides
Course guides
Recommended public websites
Quick Links
LostintheLibrary
LostintheLibrary Endnote
The Information Landscape
Library catalogs vs.Periodical Indexes Indexes
Uniform vs Idiosyncratic
Cooperative vs. Competitive
Free vs. Costly
Citation vs. Fulltext
A blurring boundary
Database producers (e.g ATLA) vs. Database vendors (e.g. Ebsco)
Periodical indexes (e.g. ATLA) vs. Journal storage systems (e.g. JSTOR)
Databases of primary source materials (e.g. TLG, MGH, Early American Newspapers)
Protestant vs. Catholic (ATLA vs. CPLI)
Searching Tips
"In Search of Quietude" (Tan You)
Authority terms (LCSH) vs Keywords
Browsing vs Keywording
LCSH: Black Theology, Feminist Theology, Postmodern Theology, Postcolonial Theology....
But also: (postcolonial) and (theology)
New look to the catalog: The Rose Window
Search methods: simple, advanced, exact
Reserve desk (language exam books!)
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 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
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
Primary sources
See "Primary Source Materials" for RLSOC725
Critical editions (e.g. Clavis volumes in the Corpus Christianorum series; and Alfred North Whitehead and George Santayana)
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