Doctor of Ministry Resources

Suggested Databases

Off-campus access to the following databases is available only to Bethel Seminary students, faculty and staff (Instructions for off-campus access)

Academic Search Premier (Full-Text)
Contains indexing for nearly 8,050 publications, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc.
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ATLA Religion Database (includes some Full-Text)
The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The databasecontains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews. Though coverage is from 1949 to the present, not all publications begin in 1949.
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Business Source Premier (full-text)
Coverage: 1922 - present, updated daily
Provides full text for nearly 3,800scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
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Dissertation Abstracts Online
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations on all academic topics accepted at accredited institutions since 1861, including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
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ERIC Database
The ERIC Database contains more than 800,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database is updated monthly. ERIC reference numbers with an EJ are journal articles.
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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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Family & Society Studies Worldwide
This is a comprehensive resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. FSD provides over 167,000 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government papers, and other sources.
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PQDT Open  (full-text)
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.

PsycINFO
PsycINFO(R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.
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Research in Ministry (RIM) Online
RIM Online is a freely available database that indexes D.Min. projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.

Sociological Abstracts
Includes articles, books, book chapters, book reviews dissertations, conferences covering anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies Click here for information on exporting records from CSA Illumina to RefWorks.

WorldCat
This database contains records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Each record contains library holdings.
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Obtaining Material

The library will mail books and journal articles to Bethel Seminary students who do not have access to the campus. Books are mailed at library rate. Journal articles will be scanned and delivered to the student's ILLiad account.

To request books listed in CLICnet, just click on the red Request button. Enter your name and barcode number. It is very important that you select BETHEL SEMINARY (ST PAUL) as the pickup location. To request books not available in CLICnet or to request any journal articles, use ILLiad.

Please note: You may request theses and dissertations through ILLiad, but they are not always available. Typically only the library of the institution where the thesis or dissertation was written has a copy. Some libraries do not loan these items or, if they do, there is often a charge to borrow the item.. An alternative to ILL is to purchase a copy.

If you have any questions, please contact us.