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Bethel Seminary Library

Online Databases and Reference Works for Christian Thought

Academic Search Premier (full-text)
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated daily
Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Coverage: 1980 - present, updated weekly
Indexes arts and humanities journals and related social science and science information.

ATLA Religion Database (some full-text)
Coverage: 1949 - present, updated quarterly
Covers topics such as: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics
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Expanded Academic ASAP (some full-text)
Indexes more than 4,200 titles, with 2,500 full-text in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.
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JSTOR (full-text)
Electronic access to a full-text archive of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines.
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Covers all areas of philosophy and the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day.

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Entries include over 500 biographies of famous and influential philosophers, in-depth analysis of philosophical terms and concepts, a chronology of philosophical events stretching from 10,000 BC to the present day, and coverage of themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy.

Oxford Reference Online : Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource.

Philosopher's Index (full-text)
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.
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Project Muse (full-text)
Project MUSE provides full-text online access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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RefWorks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To create an account from off-campus, you will need the RefWorks Group Code.
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Coverage: 1978 - present, updated annually
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (full-text)
Features articles across the discipline of philosophy.