Ebook Databases
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowOffers apps and download options. Provides a bookshelf to save books, highlight text, write notes, and more.
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) This link opens in a new window
- eBook Religion Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Use your MYEBSCO account to save article for later access and use, to create article files, and get the bibliography or reference list.
Use a variety of searches.
Examples:
- opens new window"Church History"
- opens new window"Church history" AND (Bible or Christian*) - Church history is searched as a phrase. (Use quotations marks around terms to search them as a phrase.)
- 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 This link opens in a new window
Library Catalog
- Catalog This link opens in a new window
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
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).