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Academic Search Premiere
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals across disciplines. Full text articles are available for more than 4,600 journals.
ATLAS (ATLA Religion Database + ATLASerials)
The premier theological database with index and full-text of journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archives
Contains more than 35 years of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR). The Archive also provides access to Bible Review, Archaeology Odyssey, and four ebooks written by prominent archaeology scholars.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Contains periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents, and electronic resources related to the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.
Credo Reference
Database containing informational pages for a variety of topics, including an A-Z list for religion, and full-text ebooks published by Blackwell, Routledge, Pearson, and others.
Digital Karl Barth Library
Features Barth's magnum opus (Die kirchliche Dogmatik), the first 36 volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings, as well as seven additional German works that have not yet been published.
EBSCO Databases (all)
Homepage for all EBSCO content to which the Barbour Library subscribes.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Continually updated general knowledge encyclopedia containing thousands of articles, biographies, videos, and images.
GreenFile
Contains scholarly, government, and general-interest titles covering all aspects of environmental studies and related disciplines.
Index Theologicus (IxTheo)
Contains over 400,000 citations to articles published in (largely German) theology and religious studies journals, festschrift, and in-congress publications.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library that contains full-text journal articles, conference proceedings, primary source materials, and ebooks from a variety of disciplines
New Testament Abstracts
Contains more than 46,000 article abstracts, over 1,600 review abstracts, 17,000 book abstracts, and 61 software abstracts on all topics and disciplines of the New Testament.
Old Testament Abstracts
Continas indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Comprehensive database for Bible and biblical history, cotaining Oxford published encyclopedias, handbooks, commentaries, bibles, reference books, atlases/maps, images, timelines, and other materials.
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Contains indexes and summaries of articles published in scholarly religion and theology journals.
Research in Ministry (RIM)
Contains indexes to DMin and DMiss theses from many seminaries and instiutions accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
Provides low-cost access to over 20,000 theses, dissertations, and conference papers from theological institutions, societies, and seminaries.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume I
Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to key worldwide religious thinkers, from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century.