Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Has someone already written my DMin thesis? Check this index to DMin theses, produced by the American Theological Library Association.
http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm
And what about all the Drew DMin dissertations? Many of them are fulltext online in this database. Limit your search by Drew=School, D.Min.=Degree, to find them.
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
Need to know the percentage of women clergy in the church? Check here for facts, statistics, sociological research and the online Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/
What’s the Epistle for this week? And which year of the Revised Common Lectionary cycle is it, anyway? Check here for exegetical inspiration, from webmistress J. Woodard.
http://www.textweek.com/
No library nearby? Or the available ones all closed? Frustrated by all those online books Google can only partially show? Search in these 2 databases for over 75,000 fulltext online titles.
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
How do I footnote an unpaged article in an online database? The online Chicago Manual of Style tells all. [Answer is in rule 17.181, if you can find it!]
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
These are multiplying at an alarming rate. See this page for links to a few of them: Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Encyclopedia of Religion in America... http://www.drew.edu/library/resourcetype/religion_theologysites