Library catalog
Library Databases
1. Scholarly Articles
2. Websites
- Free vs. Proprietary websites
- 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- Original research and unpublished papers.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
- Citing Websites
3. The Art of Annotation
- Abstracts vs. Annotations
- Critical reading
- Identifying the thesis
- Summarizing
- Critiquing
- Some guidance from