Ebook Databases
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Provides apps (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) and Download options.
Search 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)
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- eBook Religion Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Save books in your EBSCO folder for later access and use.
Search examples:
- opens new window"Church History"
- opens new window"Church history" AND (Bible or Christian*) (Use quotations marks around terms to search them as a phrase.)
- opens new windowChurch history AND (Bible or Christian*) (Note: Without a Boolean operator between terms or quotation marks around 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.)
- Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central Bookshelf
The Bookshelf allows you to store ebooks, create notes, highlight text, add Web links, and more.
Go to opens new windowEbook Central.
- 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.)
- To delete ebook titles, highlights and notes, use the delete trash icon at the right in your folder.
Library Catalog
opens new window Library Catalog
Use broad keywords and subjects that identify your topic(s). Search a variety of fields.
Click a link below to view examples of search results:
- opens new windoweschatology and 21st century (keyword search)
- opens new windowHebert David (author search; use last name first without punctuation)
- opens new windoweschatology (subject search)
To limit your results to Reference Books, change "View Entire Collection" to "Reference Collection."
Ebook titles are included in the library catalog along with links to the full-text ebook. To limit your results to ebooks, change "View Entire Collection" to "Ebooks." Click a book title to access the detailed record (shown below). Click the How do I Cite this? link to get citations in a variety of styles. (See image below.)
Always check with your professor and required print style formatting rules and edit citations accordingly.
WorldCat
Find books at your local libraries. "WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world." Two versions are available to search:
opens new windowWorldCat Web version (shown below) and opens new windowWorldCat (Firstsearch database)
Search, then click a book title from the results.
In the detailed record, key in your location to find a copy in the library (circled below).