Finding Books
Use this type of search when you know the name of an author, a correct title, or a Library of Congress Subject Heading.
Sample subject headings for this class:
Keyword Searching:
Use this type of search when you do not know the proper LC Subject heading for your topic, or when you know some of the words but not all the words in a title. Or to expand or narrow your search.
- Allows you to use Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT) to broaden , narrow, or define your search.
- Allows for truncation of search terms.
Sample Keyword searches for this class:
Literature and allusion
Bible King James Version
allegory and c.s. lewis
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Reference Materials
- Common knowledge : a reader's guide to literary allusions
- REF PN43 .G68 198
- The Facts on File dictionary of classical, biblical, and literary allusions
- REF PN43 L37 1987
- Merriam-Webster's dictionary of allusions
- REF PN43 .W384 1999
- The Oxford dictionary of allusions
- REF PE1580 .D45 2001
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Finding Articles using Online Databases
Academic Search Premier - Ebsco
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General periodical index providing full text for nearly 3,460 scholarly publications. |
ARTStor
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"ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use." |
Art Abstracts
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Index and abstracts to art publications. 1984-present. |
Art Index Retrospective
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Index to the art literature from 1929-1984. |
Britannica Online
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Encyclopedia articles with links to Internet resources. |
Gale's Literature Resource Center
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Full-text online access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography and other Gale Literary Criticisms. |
| Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia |
A searchable version of Grizmek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia includes recent changes in the lives of animals. |
Grove's Dictionary of Art
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Online full-text of the original 34 volume Dictionary of Art. Revised and updated. Includes images. |
JSTOR
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Browse or search the full text back files of publications in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. |
MLA Bibliography
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An index to literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. |
Oxford English Dictionary
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| Oxford Reference Shelf |
A regularly updated collection of over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias quotation books and subject companions. Searches multiple books simultaneously, as well as searching by individual title or chosen subject. Includes citation instructions. |
| Philosopher's Index |
Covers scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. |
| Project Muse |
A collection of 300 high quality journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. |
Finding Information and Images on the Web
- All in One Biblical Resources
- Conceived by Dr Mark Goodacre, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, U.K. Includes sections on Biblical Resources and Bible Versions and Translations.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College
- CHRISTUS REX
- "CHRISTUS REX is a a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world. They intend to assemble a collection of images that will constitute a visual representation of the Bible, ad maiorem gloriam Dei! (for the greater glory of God!) The Vatican collection comprises over 1200 images, and they have started building the data base for a world wide tour of churches and monasteries, comprising in excess of 5000 images."
- Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection
- Contains over 1000 prints, including Rembrandt's "Bible" etchings and Albrecht Durer's religious woodcuts and engravings. Available from the Connecticut College web site.
- Early Christian Writings
- New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Fathers
- English Literature and Religion
- Here you will find primary texts. "This Web site offers a large bibliographical database about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century, with primary (though not exclusive) emphasis upon writers within the Anglican tradition." — William S. Peterson
- Graduate Theological Union - Flora Lamson Hewlett Library
- Large, lightly annotated, collection of Internet resources for religious research from the library of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) consortium in Berkeley, California.
- History of the World from a Biblical Perspective
- Portals to the World
- Resources selected by the Library of Congress, each country guide offers a section on Religion and Philosophy
- Templar History.com
- Quite commercial in tone, but does provide information on Templar history, mysteries and myths, the Crusades, the Holy Grail, whether the Templars had the Ark of the Covenant and masonic Templar regalia.
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- Islamic Studies: Islam, Arabic, and Religion
- From a professor of religion at the University of Georgia. A collection of annotated sites about the Qur'an, Sufism, Sunni, Islam in the modern world, women's rights, art, architecture, music, Arabic language study, and more
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
- Provides a side-by-side presentation of both the King James and the Revised Standard editions of the Bible.
