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Catalogues

• Westminster Library Catalogue
• WorldCat
• EZ-Proxy
• Early English Books

Article Databases

• ATLA Religion - Indexes over 1,550 religion journals of which 100 are full-text
• Proquest Religious Periodicals & General Reference - Contains 115 full-text religion journals and 3,800 general interest journals and newspapers
• Religious and Theological Abstracts - Summaries of articles appearing in more than 400 scholarly religion and theological journals
• EBSCO Online - Full text access to over 50 journals to which WSC subscribes
• Article First - Indexes over 16,000 journals, many full-text
• Old Testament Abstracts - An index with abstracts of over 450 articles and books related to the Old Testament and its time period
• New Testament Abstracts - An index with abstracts for more than 33,000 articles, 12,600 books, and software on the New Testament and its time period
• Other FirstSearch Databases - BooksInPrint, Dissertations, and other databases in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Business
• Library Periodical Holdings

Full Text Databases

• Early English Books - Literature of English Christianity from the first book published in English (1473) through the age of Cotton Mather (1700)
• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts - Full-text access to biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises from the Reformation & Post-Reformation eras
• TLG - Full text access to Greek literature from antiquity to the present era

Interlibrary Loan

• Interlibrary Loan Request Form for Books
• Interlibrary Loan Request Form for Articles

Dictionary

• Oxford English Dictionary - The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language

Google Scholar

• Google Scholar

Reference and Research Help

Questions?
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• Columbia University Copyright

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Theological Bibliography

Theological Bibliography is a required course designed to teach information literacy for graduate theological education. According to the American Library Association, information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals "to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." View course description (PT502 Theological Bibliography) in the WSC Academic Catalogue.