Handout that can be used with Christian Studies students

1. Chris&an
Studies
Resources
@
Warner
Memorial
Library.
Prepared
by
Mark
Puterbaugh
Info.
Svcs.
Librarian
mputerba@eastern.edu
610-­‐341-­‐1461
Where
can
I
find
authoritaEve
arEcles
and
informaEon?
DATABASES
• Associa-on
of
Religion
Data
Archives
(ARDA)
The
ARDA
provides
free
access
to
the
most
authoritaEve
religion
staEsEcs,
data
and
reports,
and
maps
of
religious
and
protestant
denominaEons
in
America.
•
EBSCOhost
-­‐
ATLA
Catholic
Periodical
and
Literature
Index
American
This
database
provides
indexing
of
periodicals,
essay
collecEons,
church
documents,
papal
documents
and
electronic
resources
expressly
addressing
the
pracEce
and
intellectual
tradiEon
of
Roman
Catholicism.
•
EBSCOhost
–
ATLA
Religion
Database
with
ATLASerials
Combines
the
premier
index
to
journal
arEcles,
book
reviews,
and
collecEons
of
essays
in
all
fields
of
religion
with
ATLA's
online
collecEon
of
major
religion
and
theology
journals.
•
EBSCOhost
-­‐
New
Testament
Abstracts
Contains
50,000+
arEcle
abstracts,
over
1,600
review
abstracts,
and
18,000
book
abstracts.
•
EBSCOhost
-­‐
Old
Testament
Abstracts
OTA
covers
an
array
of
subjects
including
anEquiEes,
archaeology,
biblical
theology
and
philology—making
it
essenEal
for
religious
or
biblical
research.
It
has
abstracts
for
over
500
journals.
•
Religious
and
Theological
Abstracts
R&T
A
provides
objecEve
summaries
of
arEcles
appearing
in
scholarly
journals
in
the
fields
of
Religion
and
Theology.
•
World
Chris-an
Database
Provides
comprehensive
staEsEcal
informaEon
on
world
religions,
ChrisEan
denominaEons,
and
people
groups.
Extensive
data
are
available
on
9,000
ChrisEan
denominaEons,
13,000
ethnolinguisEc
peoples,
as
well
as
data
on
5,000
ciEes,
3,000
provinces
and
234
countries.
•
World
Religion
Database
Contains
detailed
staEsEcs
on
religious
affiliaEon
for
every
country
of
the
world.
• Olive
Tree
Bible+
(Free)
• Bible!
by
Logos
(Free)
• EBSCOhost
App
(Free)
• Kindle
App
(Free)
• Nook
App
(Free)
Check
out
the
mobile
apps
for
both
iOS
ad
Android

2. • Online
Catalog
Search
for
books,
e-­‐books,
journal
Etles,
media
and
other
items
available
through
Eastern
University’s
Libraries.
• eBrary
Large
collecEon
of
academic
e-­‐books
searchable
and
readable
through
this
mulE-­‐
disciplinary
database.
• Digital
Library
of
Classic
Protestant
Texts
Database
of
an
extensive
collecEon
of
seminal
works
from
the
ReformaEon
and
post-­‐
ReformaEon
eras.
•
Digital
Digital
Loeb
Classical
Library
Contains
works
of
the
Church
Fathers
in
their
original
language
along
side
an
up-­‐to-­‐
date
translaEon.
• EBSCOhost
-­‐
American
Theological
Library
Associa-on
(ATLA)
Historical
Monographs
Collec-on:
Series
1
and
2
The
two
databases
present
historic
documents
and
texts
from
the
13th
Century
through
1923.
Series
2
presents
a
comprehensive
view
of
religion
in
America
at
the
turn
of
the
20th
century.
• EBSCO
eBooks
Search
and
view
the
full
text
of
academic
e-­‐books
in
EBSCOhost.
• JSTOR
Books
Excellent
collecEon
of
mulE-­‐disciplinary
Etle
from
academic
publisher.
Where
can
I
find
books?
What’s
On
the
Web?
See
Our
Biblical
Studies
And
Religion
Libguides
hfp://libguides.eastern.edu/sb.php?subject_id=26078
• Biblical
&
Classical
Languages
LibGuide
Here
you
will
find
general
informaEon
on
how
to
locate
sources
related
to
the
3
major
Biblical
Languages,
• E-­‐Books
-­‐
New
Testament
Introduc-on
and
Commentary
This
is
a
collecEon
of
some
of
the
best
public
domain
works,
texts
and
commentaries
(primarily
pre-­‐1923)
for
New
Testament
studies.
• E-­‐Books
-­‐
Old
Testament
Introduc-on
and
Commentary
A
collecEon
of
some
of
the
best
public
domain
works,
texts
and
commentaries
(primarily
pre-­‐1923)
for
Old
Testament
(Hebrew
Scriptures)
studies.
• More
Monday,
September
14,
15