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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.
Click
here for information on exporting
records from EBSCO to RefWorks.
- The
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.
Click
here for information on exporting
records from EBSCO to RefWorks.
- 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.
Click
here for information
on exporting records from
FirstSearch to RefWorks.
- 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. Click
here for information
on exporting records from
FirstSearch to RefWorks.
- 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.
Click here for information on exporting records from EBSCO to RefWorks.
- 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.
Click
here for information on exporting
records from EBSCO to RefWorks.
- 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.
Click
here for information on exporting
records from CSA Illumina to RefWorks.
- 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.
- WorldCat
This database contains records of any type of material
cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Each record contains library
holdings.
Click
here for information
on exporting records from
FirstSearch to RefWorks.
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Obtaining
Material
The library
will mail books and journal articles to Bethel Seminary students
who do not have access to a campus.
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.
The library
staff automatically mails material requested by Doctor of Ministry
students unless we receive other instructions. Books are mailed
at library rate. Journal articles will be scanned and delivered to the student's ILLiad account.
If you have
any questions, please contact
us.
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