Wilson Select Plus: Access to 1,500 electronic journals in full text covering a wide range of academic and popular subjects. See a list of available ejournals.

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Ethnic NewsWatch: about the database (2 simultaneous users)

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Arts and Humanitites Citation Index

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Dissertation Abstracts: Index with abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations, mostly North American institutions but some other institutions also included.

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Theses Canada: Theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives of Canada. Full-text theses in PDF format available for some documents. Includes Canadian D.Min theses (choose keyword search for D.MIN).

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Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN): Theses and dissertations from many institutions with religious affiliations. Items can be purchased from the TREN site directly.

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The British Library: Includes British theses.

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FirstSearch: Gateway to many databases in a variety of subjects, including art, biology, education, newspapers, proceedings, psychology, and sociology. See the list below.

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• AHSearch :Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• AltPressIndex :Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change
• AltPressIndexArchive :Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change
• ArticleFirst :OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
• BasicBIOSIS :Basic information about biology and other life sciences
• BioDigest :Life-science information written in a non-technical style
• BooksInPrint :In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos, with optional reviews
• BusManagement :Practical aspects and approaches to business management
• ClasePeriodica :Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
• CWI :Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights)
• Dissertations :Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe
• Ebooks :OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
• EconLit :Journals, books, and working papers on economics
• FactSearch :Facts and statistics on topics of current interest
• GEOBASE :Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology
• GPO :U.S. government publications
• NewsAbs :Significant items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers
• PAISArchive :Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues
• PAISInternational :Database chronicling global public policy and social issues
• PapersFirst :OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
• Proceedings :An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
• PsycFIRST :Psychology and related fields in the current and most recent three update years
• SIRSResearcher :Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide
• UnionLists :List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries
• WilsonSelectPlus :Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business
• WorldAlmanac :Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs
• WorldCat :OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide

AARP Research Center: bibliographic database, links to selected web sites, and full text sources available from the American Association of Retired Persons.

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Bioethicsline: A database of citations to literature on ethical, legal, and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research.

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ERIC: The world's largest database of education information includes more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

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PubMed: Search the medical journal literature database from the National Library of Medicine site.

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Psychoanalytic Literature: Database provided by the American Psychoanalytic Association consisting of nearly 30,000 references to journal articles, books, and book reviews.

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Other Databases Catalogs • Encyclopedias • Ebooks • Texts • Images, Manuscripts, Music, and Other Media • Statistics

Books in Print

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WorldCat: A combined database of the holdings of thousands of libraries around the world.

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Incunabula Database: Identifies specific titles among 430 works of incunabula, books printed before 1501 that are held at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Oxford Reference Online: about the database (1 simultaneous user)

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Oxford English Dictionary:

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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online:

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Encyclopaedia Britannica: about the database

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Free, scholarly, and peer-reviewed encyclopedia hosted by Stanford University.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Individual titles can also be searched once you have logged on. Titles in the Gale Virtual Reference Library are:

• African American Almanac, 9th ed., 2003
  
• Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed., 2006
  
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2004
  
• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2004
  
• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, 2004
  
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 2002
  
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006
  
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Religion, 2004
  
• Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2003
  
• Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2000
  
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003
  
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005
  

Grove Dictionary of Art Online: about the database

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Wikipedia: "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

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• Encyclopedia Judaica

netLibrary: about the database

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University of California Press Scholarship Editions: Over 500 online full-text editions of books from the University of California Press. Nearly 300 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are accessible to non-UCB faculty and students on the UCB campus only.

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CLCLT: Library of Latin Texts (CETEDOC)

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The Digital Karl Barth Library

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Luthers Werke

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Patrologiae Graecae

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• Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia (Index Thomisticus)
• Bar Ilan's Judaic Library (Responsa Project)
• Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library Vol. 1 (Brill)
• Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference LibraryVol. 2 (FARMS)
• Soncino Classics Collection
• BibleWorks

Classical Music Library: Database of audio recordings playable via the web. (2 simultaneous users)

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Online: Database of audio recordings playable via the web. 300 tracks from the Folkways series, including world music, folk, jazz, poetry, sounds, and more. (3 simultaneous users)

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ArtStor:

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Index of Christian Art:

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Bibliography of the History of Art:

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Grove Dictionary of Art Online Image Collections: Part of the Grove Dictionary of Art Online. See more about the database

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Art Concordance: From The Text This Week, free lectionary, scripture study and worship links and resources.

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Oxford Reference Online Visual English Dictionary: Part of the Oxford Reference Online database. See more about the database

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ATLA Collaborative Digital Resources Project (CDRI): Woodcuts, photgraphs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, manuscripts, and other media relevant to teaching and learning in theological education.

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Internet Mission Photography Archive: "Historical images in the Internet Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, continental Europe, and North America. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean."

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Digital Scriptorium: An image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Consists of ca. 8,500 color images from the U.C. Berkeley and Columbia-affiliated libraries, as well as the Union Theological Seminary (NY) and the De Bellis Collection (CA).

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Digital Archive of the Archival Research Center (USC): "Provides access to over 20,000 photographs, maps, manuscripts, dissertations, records, texts, and sound recordings owned by USC and partnering institutions with particular emphasis on materials related to Southern California." Includes the Internet Mission Photography Archive, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Digital Archive, digitized copies of El Clamor Publico from 1855-1859, and many other treasures.

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In the First Person: Database pointing to oral history resources in libraries. Full-text narratives, images, and audio/video files available.

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New York Public Library Digital Collections: Search digitized images from several different special collections at New York Public Library.

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Picture History: Historical photos and images.

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Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: A project of the Smithsonian Institution Library. A searchable directory of nearly 3,000 online exhibitions.

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British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: "A searchable illustrated catalogue of all the western illuminated manusripts in the British Library. The Library holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world, and its goal is to provide unprecedented access to images and information about its manuscripts to students, scholars and the general public."

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See these databases on CD-ROM:

• Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library Vol. 1 (Brill)

American Religion Data Archive (ARDA): Sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, ARDA collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The site is a place to locate data files for topics of interest, rather than a place to read the results of surveys. When you search under a topic, you can review the results on-line or save the survey questions to a "Question Bank" to construct your own survey.

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Information about Access

Research databases are available to all users within the library. Access from home to some databases is limited to GTU students, faculty, visiting scholars, and staff.

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