WISER Humanities: E-Resources for Research in

Theology

Friday, 27 February

Hilla Wait & Kate Alderson Smith

Structure of today’s session

Effective searching Overview of e-resources in theology

Resource discovery tools Full-text resources Theses, current research and awareness

Time to explore with assistance available

Where to start?

Decide what you are searching for before you start Know your resources Identify some keywords Work out search strategies

Advanced Boolean Proximity Symbols for wildcards and truncation

Make sure you have a system for storing the references you identify –e-mail, or Refworks

Construct the search to fit the query and the resource

Tackling an unfamiliar database

Check the coverage of a database to see if it includes what you want

You can use cross-searching for some collections of databases

Use the help screens provided check the conventions (e.g. do they use &, +, or

“and”)

Critical appraisal

Evaluating search results and sources Academic credentials Peer review Use of source material Accuracy of references Currency Bias Relevancy Citation count

Finding aids in Oxford

SOLO New resource discovery interface for

p- and e-texts First but not last stop

OLIS Catalogue of books / journals

Oxford e-journals e-journal subscriptions

OxLIP+ Gateway to subscription databases Subject guidance

SOLO

SOLO

OLIS

Institutional Repository (ORA)

E-journals

OxLIP+

Special collections: catalogues

OxLIP+ Theology menu

Finding books

Local SOLO – e & p-texts OLIS – for holdings and functions Manual catalogues – Pusey House Local catalogues – Heritage (Wycliffe) Manuscript catalogue in Duke Humfrey’s

Global – access via OxLIP+ WorldCat (45+ million items) COPAC (Catalogue of UK Research libraries) European Library BL Catalogue

Electronic Resources in Theology

Subject-specific bibliographical databases: Few irrelevant results Focus for the search

Full-text databases: Primary sources Secondary works

Reference works

Bibliographic Databases : ATLA

Core e-title for Theology Biblical Studies, world religions, Church history religious

perspectives on social issues 400,000 article citations from 1,400 journals 200,000 chapter citations from edited works 375,000 book reviews ATLAS Links to

70 full-text journals

Bibliographic Databases : ATLA

NavigatingSearch options

• Basic search• Search Limits• Advanced search• Index search

Exporting records

Other Bibliographic Databases New and Old Testament Abstracts Philosopher's Index FRANCIS

Multidisciplinary, strong in Religion and good for European articles

Index Islamicus All aspects of Islam

International Medieval Bibliography

OCLC Article First General

Finding Biblical resources

BibleWorks best resource for exegesis

Anchor Bible Dictionary Oxford Bible Companion BibleGateway NT Gateway

Finding full-text primary sources Ancient/Medieval

Dead Sea Scrolls Patrologia Latina Acta Sanctorum Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts

Corpus Christianorum series

Augustine: Opera Omnia Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Medieval sources On-Line Perseus Past Masters

Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham

Finding full-text primary sources

Early Modern/Modern Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Early English Books Online Eighteenth Century Collections Online Past Masters

• Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Newman

Past Masters

Expand package → author→title

Using the Table of Contents

Changing the display Navigating the text Searching by simple search Power search Cross database searching Results Map Proximity search

E-Books - Secondary texts for theology

Oxford Scholarship On-Line Taylor & Francis E-books Cambridge Companions On-

Line Cambridge Histories on-Line Blackwell Reference On-

Line

Oxford Scholarship On-Line

Complete list Search for a title or

author Abstract and TOC Navigating Searching by keyword Quick Search Sorting your search

results Advanced Search

Taylor & Francis/Routledge

Getting started Navigating Copying and

printing Marking up text Searching Using the Research

Notebook

Reference Sources Oxford Reference Online Standard Abbreviations for

Theological Journals & Commentaries Encyclopedia of Religion Routledge Encyclopedia of

Philosophy International Encyclopedia for

the Middle Ages Anchor Bible Dictionary Oxford Bible Commentary Encyclopedia of Isalm Encyclopedia of the Qu’ran

Finding theses

Index to Theses – UK and Ireland Dissertations and Theses International WorldCat (via OCLC First Search) Theological Research Exchange Network

www.tren.com/e-docs/index.cfm Phddata www.phddata.org

Locating current research Mailing lists

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk Conference proceedings

OCLC Proceedings Theses and Dissertations

Current awareness services Zetoc, My TD-Net

Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway Internet Detective http://www.vts.intute

.ac.uk/detective/

Google scholar ORA (Oxford Research Archive) Religion Online

And Finally

QuestionsPractical session Evaluation forms