Library catalog
Library Databases
1. Scholarly Articles
- The Scholarly Periodical
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Evaluating Periodicals
- Magazines for Libraries [Ref. PN4832 .M23]
- Publisher websites, e.g. Word & World
- Finding periodicals at Drew
- Database vendors (e.g. Ebsco) vs. Database publishers (e.g. ATLA)
- Periodical Indexing (e.g. ATLA) vs Periodical Storage (e.g. JSTOR)
- ATLA
- Browsing vs Subject searching vs Keyword searching
- Articles vs. Essays
- Tip sheet
- Print indexes
- Catholic Periodical and Literature Index [Ref. AC13 .C32]
- Methodist [and United Methodist] Periodical Index, 1961-1980 [Methodist Center Reading Room]
- General Indexes
- Quick guide to citing articles in journals, essays in books, and book reviews
2. Websites
- Free vs. Proprietary websites
- Wikipedia
- Evaluating websites (and a chart)
- 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- Original research and unpublished papers.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
- Google
- Advanced Search
- Spinoffs, e.g. Google Images
- Classified indexes
- Google
- Citing Websites
- Guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style, rule 14.245
- Guidance from Wisconsin-Parkside
3. The Art of Annotation
- Abstracts vs. Annotations
- Critical reading
- Identifying the thesis
- Summarizing
- Critiquing
- Some guidance from