Library Guides: GTHE-517 Seminar in Theological Research: Books & Ebooks

Ebook Databases

Ebook Central
Offers apps and download options. Provides a bookshelf to save books, highlight text, write notes, and more.

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

Use a variety of searches.
Examples:

opens new windowChristianity and ethics (keywords)
opens new windowChristianity and eschatology (keywords)
opens new window"Christian ethics" (key phrase) (Use quotes around words to search for an exact phrase.)
opens new window"Practical theology" (key phrase)
opens new window"Pastoral counseling" (key phrase)

The Bookshelf allows you to store ebooks, create notes, highlight text, add Web links, and more.

To use the Bookshelf you need to create an account: Click the Bookshelf tab (top left). Enter your ORU network login to create and log in to your Bookshelf. (Your username is your ORU email address.) Note: To delete ebook titles, highlights and notes, use the delete trash icon at the right in your folder.

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Use your MYEBSCO account to save article for later access and use, to create article files, and get the bibliography or reference list.

A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks including titles in the Christian Librarians collections.
eBook Religion Collection (EBSCOhost)

This eBook collection provides titles covering diverse worldwide religions and explores areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion.

Try a variety of searches.
Examples:

Use quotation marks ( " " ) to search a phrase -opens new window "Church History"
Use OR to group similar terms - opens new window"Church history" AND (Bible or Christian*)
opens new windowChurch history AND (Bible or Christian*) - The terms church and history will be searched in any order, but the words must be within five words of each other. (Note: Without a Boolean operator between terms or quotation marks around the terms, the search will perform a proximity of 5. That is, results will have the terms within a 5-word word range in any order.)

See: opens new windowEBSCO eBooks on the New EBSCO Interfaces User Guide

Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity
View subjects, genres and persons.

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."

Library Catalog

Catalog

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 WMS system.

Use broad keywords and subjects that identify your topic(s). Search a variety of fields.
Examples:

eschatology and 21st century
David Hebert
eschatology

➤ For reference books add b8:reference to your search.

Ebook titles are included in the library catalog along with links to the full-text ebook. To limit your results to ebooks, use the Format options and mark the box in front of eBooks.

WorldCat

WorldCat.org

Bibliographic records from libraries worldwide; enables researchers to locate libraries where desired materials are held. Search for books, music, videos, conference proceedings and more.

Go to WorldCat.org and type the book title, author, or keywords. From the results, click a book title. On the detailed record page, scroll to the "find a copy in the library" section. Enter your ZIP cod or city to locate a library nearby that has the book.