Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

America: History and Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present.

ATLAS Full Text Plus
The ATLA Religion database with full text added. Indexes citations to journals, essays in multiauthor works, book reviews, and doctor of ministry projects. Covers works in and related to the field of religion.

Christian Periodical Index
Provides access to English language articles and reviews from an evangelical perspective.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

ProQuest Religion
Coverage of religious affairs and religious thinking from top periodicals, most with full text.

Routledge Religion Resource
Online access to the best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource, including classics such as The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom.

Theological Journals Search
Search over 300 religion journals related to scripture studies, systematic theology, practical ministries, and cognate disciplines for which full text is freely available on the Internet. Among the searchable ejournals are many of those listed in major religion Internet directories and ejournal sites including:

***DOAJ Religion
***findarticles.com
***religiononline.org
***Wabash Center

Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
A database of more than 10,000 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers.

Who's Who (from Marquis)
Marquis Who's Who on the Web is a comprehensive, searchable, daily-updated database of over 1.4 million concisely and factually written biographies clearly presented under subject headings from 21 different Marquis Who's Who print titles published since 1985, plus exclusive access to all of the Marquis Who Was Who in America with World Notables biographies since 1607.

 

 

Database tips & tools

ATLAS Full Text Plus database tip:

You can search by scripture passage in the ATLA database.  At the top of the page there is a “Scriptures” link.  Click on this to go to the scripture browsing option.   In the browse box:

1.  Enter the scripture information (name, passage, colon, verse).

2.  Click the browse button.

3.  Select the boxes that you want.

4.  Click on the search button.

Here are examples of the format to use when entering a scripture reference in the browse box:

Daniel  6

Genesis 3:5

John, 2nd  1

Peter, 1st  1:6

Web resources

Adherents.com
The site to answer questions such as "How many Quakers are in Oregon?

American Friends Service Committee
Quaker values in action.

The ARDA: Association of Religous Data Archives
Intended to democratize access to the best data on religion.

The Religious Society of Friends
Large listing of  Quaker links, plus hosting for a number of Quaker groups.

Dictionaries

The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers)

The concise Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church (electronic resource)

Dictionary of ethics, theology and society (electronic resource)

Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) 

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy

The encyclopedia of Protestantism (electronic resource)

Encyclopedia of religion (electronic resource)

New historical atlas of religion in America

World Christian encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world

Professional organizations

American Friends Service Committee

American Society of Church History

Friends Association for Higher Education

Friends General Conference

Friends United Meeting

Evangelical Friends International

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Quakers -- England -- Biography.

Quakers -- Fiction.

Quakers -- Persecutions.

Society of Friends -- Charities.

Society of Friends -- Conduct of life.

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

We have a Quaker Collection in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the MLRC.  That is where we keep most of our Quaker materials.

Subclass BR	Christianity
Subclass BV	Practical Theology
Subclass BX	Christian Denominations
BX  7601- 7795	Friends. Society of Friends. Quakers

Google Search: Quaker

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.