Library Guides: BIB-499, THE-499, CHRM-499 Senior Paper: Books & Ebooks

Ebook Databases

The ORU Library provides access to three major collections of ebooks and several specialized collections.

Ebook Central has over 10,000 titles in opens new windowreligion and 2,900 titles in opens new windowpsychology. The EBSCO eBook Collection has over 13,000 related to opens new windowreligion and over 7,000 related to opens new windowpsychology and sociology while the eBook Religion Collection has over 8,500 titles.

To use such ebook functions as annotating and downloading, sign up for a personal account in both Ebook Central and eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). For more on how to use and download ebooks, see the opens new windowebooks@ORU guide.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
TIP: The Bookshelf feature allows you to store ebooks, create notes, highlight text, add Web links, and more. To access or create your personalized bookshelf, click the Bookshelf link in Ebook Central and sign in using your ORU Single Sign-On (SSO). To delete ebook titles, highlights and notes in your bookshelf, use the delete trash icon at the right in your folder.
View Ebook Central how-to videos
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks including titles in the Christian Librarians collections.
eBook Religion Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
This eBook collection provides titles covering diverse worldwide religions and explores areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion.

Specialized Ebook Databases:

Cambridge Companions to Religion Collection This link opens in a new window
Each volume in this series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies contains specially commissioned essays by international scholars; provides and accessible and stimulating introduction to each subject.
Digital Karl Barth Library This link opens in a new window
A major online collection of Karl Barth's works provided by Princeton Theological Seminary and Theologischer Verlag Zurich; researchers can cross-search among all Barth's works. Results can be viewed, organized, and analyzed at an unprecedented
pace and precision.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A reference ebook collection helpful for background information or getting started.
Various subject encyclopedias covering multiple disciplines.
Video tutorial: "Searching for information in Gale eBooks"
Ministry Matters This link opens in a new window
Full-text research and reference materials, original articles, blogs, book reviews, thematic topics, devotions, prayers, sermon starters all fully searchable.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion This link opens in a new window
"...Essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies."
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity This link opens in a new window
Full-text ebooks cross-searchable by subject, author, religion, work. "Researchers can search across hundreds of fully-digitized documents to instantly compare how different theories, denominations, and cultural groups have intersected, differed, and influenced one another."
"A multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the first decade of the 21st century. This resource represents voices from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam featuring significant thinkers of history."

Books

Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search to find books in the ORU library. For ebooks, limit your results to "Ebooks."
ORU's online listing of books, ebooks, audiobooks, reference materials, faculty reserves, special collections, subscription journal titles, etc. to which ORU users have access. Entries contain bibliographic information about each entry on the Sierra system.
Search tips(Also, other tabs offer information regarding how to: navigate the catalog, renew books, perform other searches)
WorldCat.org This link opens in a new window
Search to find books elsewhere.
Bibliographic records from libraries worldwide; enables researchers to locate libraries where desired materials are held. Search for books, music, videos, conference proceedings and more.

Library of Congress Classification - Class Numbers Most Relevant to Theology & Ministry

B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- B-BD - Philosophy
- BF - Psychology
- BJ - Ethics
- BL - Religions
- BM - Judaism
- BP - Islam, etc.
- BQ - Buddhism
- BR - Christianity
- BS - The Bible
- BT - Doctrinal Theology
- BV - Practical Theology
- BX - Christian denominations
  - BX8762-8785 - Pentecostal churches
H - Social Sciences (General)
- HQ - The Family, Marriage, Women
P - Language and Literature
- PA - Greek; Latin
- PJ4543-4937 - Hebrew (Biblical and modern)
- PJ5201-5329.5 - Aramaic
- PJ5401-5809 - Syriac