Library catalog Research Resources
Session 4: Websites
Free vs. Proprietary websites
Evaluating websites (and a chart)
Kinds of online sources
- Digitized print sources. e.g. Encyclopedia of World Methodism
- 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- Original research and unpublished papers.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., 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
Citing Websites
- Guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style, rule 14.245
- Guidance from Wisconsin-Parkside