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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Orbis
Yale's online catalog contains bibliographic information, locations,
and call numbers for materials owned by Yale, including books,
periodicals and other serials, maps, sound recordings, archive
and manuscript collections, and data files.
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Eureka - (see RLG Union Catalog)
MORRIS
Yale Law Library's online catalog, MORRIS, contains data for
the Law Library only. Law Library holdings are not in Orbis, so
check MORRIS as well as Orbis for law-related topics.
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Yale Special Catalogs
Although Orbis is thought of as the Yale Library's "union
catalog", it does not contain, in fact, records for all materials
in all formats. Over the long history of the Yale Library, many
special catalogs have been created to describe those collections
not otherwise represented in the union catalog. See http://www.library.yale.edu/orbis/special_catalogs.html
for more information.
RLG Union Catalog
The RLG Union Catalog offers online access to the Research Libraries
Information Network's (RLIN) bibliographic database of more than
22 million titles. Use it to uncover a wealth of resources in
almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries
and research collections. RLG provides catalog records for books,
journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archive
collections, and computer files held in research, corporate, and
public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical
societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed
directly to you.
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WorldCat
WorldCat is an online "union catalog"; that is, a bibliographic
database of over 39 million records of books and other materials
held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries
around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of
Yale, in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific
libraries and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog
records for books, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films,
archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and
public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical
societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed
directly to you.
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Finding Aid Database
The Yale University Library Finding Aid Database provides access
to archival finding aids in a platform-independent electronic
format. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that
are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide
information about specific collections.
ACCESS: Freely available
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Missionary Periodicals Database
The database aims to record all periodicals on foreign missions
published in Britain between the eighteenth century and the 1960s
by missionary societies and commercial publishers. There are currently
over 400 periodicals accessible through the database, with full
details of current location, their targeted readership, regional
coverage, and main features. The database is still under construction.
ACCESS: Freely available at http://research.yale.edu:8084/missionperiodicals/index.jsp
Indexes / Abstracts / Bibliographies (Selected - see also: Full
list)
ATLA Religion Database
Published by the American Theological Library Association, the
ATLA Religion Database provides electronic access by author, title,
subject, and keyword to articles published in periodicals and
journals, essays and articles published in multi-author monographs,
and book reviews in the fields of religion and theology. CD-ROM
version of the Religion Database combines material from five printed
indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO) 1949- to date;
Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT) 1960- to date; Index
to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR) 1975- to date; Methodist Reviews
Index (MRI) 1818-1985; Research in Ministry: An Index to D.Min.
Project Reports and Theses (RIM)1981- to date. ACCESS:
via Divinity workstation: open folder called "Divinity Online
Resources", on desktop, click "ATLA" icon.>
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ATLA IBRR Online
ATLA IBRR Online is the continuation of the Index to Book Reviews
in Religion index that was published in print format until the
year 2000.
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Academic Search
Academic Search database provides access to journal articles
in most academic areas of study. It includes full-text coverage
of nearly 1,200 journals from 1990 to the present and abstracts/indexing
of nearly 3,000 journals from 1984 to the present.
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America: History and Life
America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the
history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the
present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000
bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 journals published
worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical
journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected
historical journals from major countries, state and local history
journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in
the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included
are published in English-language journals. All abstracts are
written in English.
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L'Année
Philologique
The international bibliography of record for the field of classical
studies; contains information about publications of all kinds
dealing with every aspect of Greco-Roman antiquity. Monographs,
articles, dissertations, book reviews, etc. on Greek and Latin
language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature,
philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science,
early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy are
included.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates
Anthropological Literature
Indexes articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology,
and is recognized as one of the most important tools in the field.
1984-Present is covered online.
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Art Full Text
Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts
articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text
coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of
the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100
journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively.
The Citation Index allows one to find what later articles have
cited earlier books or articles.
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Bibliography of Theology and Peace
The online bibliography of Theology and Peace contains more than
100,000 titles subject indexed using descriptors. Literature relevant
to research into peace ethics from the individual disciplines
of theology and other sciences has been taken into account.
ACCESS: Freely available at: http://www.ithpeace.de/bibl/
Catalogue de l'Ecole biblique et archeologique
francaise Jerusalem
Catalogue of the French Biblical and Archaeological School of
Jerusalem.
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room): Click on Libronix
icon in "Local Online Databases", open "My Library"
and find this resource under the Title "Ecole...."
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index on CD-ROM contains
bibliographic records from 1981 through 1994, with some records
from 1995. It is produced by ATLA for the Catholic Library Association.
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Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text contains more than 1.6 million
entries with information about doctoral dissertations and master's
theses. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but
with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997
are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews
available.
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Elenchus Bibliographicus
Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (ETL), founded in
1924, is a quarterly publication by professors of Theology and
Canon Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université
catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Issue 2-3 (September)
represents the annual Elenchus Bibliographicus, an extensive bibliography
of books and articles that appeared during the preceding year.
The bibliography (ca. 15,000 entries) covers the entire field
of Theology and Canon Law: History of Theology, History of Religions,
Old and New Testament, Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology, Sacramentology
and Liturgy, Ascetic and Mystical Theology, Moral and Pastoral
Theology, and Canon Law.
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FRANCIS
Indexes a wide range of materials, including
serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers.
FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature.
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Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts contains annotated
references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history
of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States
and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
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Humanities
Full Text
Humanities Abstracts Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company,
is a bibliographic database that cites articles from more than
350 English-language periodicals, plus the full text of over 95
of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and
classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship,
history, journalism and communications, language and literature,
literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy,
and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of
the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but
important specialized magazines.
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The Index of Christian Art
Internet access to the Princeton project which contains complex
information on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions
of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times
up to 1400 A.D.
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Index Theologicus
The Index theologicus database contains bibliographical references
from articles in more than 600 journals, Festschriften and conference
volumes. The extensive research possibilities enable theologians
and specialists in religious studies to obtain a quick and comprehensive
overview of the publications relevant to their own field of research.
Ten of the twenty volumes of the conventional Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst
Theologie (1985-1994) have now been completely retro-converted
into database structures.
ACCESS: Freely available at http://www.ixtheo.de/
Index to Theses ... Accepted for Higher Degrees
by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland
The Index to Theses provides total bibliographic control of all
theses ever produced by British and Irish universities (1716 to
the present). Access is by author, title, university, degree,
year, and keyword. Abstracts are included for titles written since
1970. Full text is not provided, but copies of the dissertations
may be requested through interlibrary loan.
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International Medieval Bibliography
An online bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500)
providing the entire run of the print copy of the IMB from 1968-2000,
with articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings,
essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
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International Philosophical Bibliography
Online bibliography That lists books and articles about philosophy
and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance
to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions.The
International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997
to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
The Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe service maintains a huge database
of news and business information, including full-text stories
and abstracts from an international array of newspapers, magazines,
newsletters, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. It provides
access to the most up to date information on current news and
business topics.
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Modern Language Association Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA
Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to some
one million citations from over 4,000 journals and series published
worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers,
proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The Bibliography
covers 1963 to the present.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates 
New Testament Abstracts
Bibliographic information for the study of the New Testament.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates 
19th Century Masterfile
Largest available database for pre-1920
studies, with more than six million citations. It provides access
to Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1907 and An Alphabetical
Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on
Religion, 1890-1899. (ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson), etc.
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Old Testament Abstracts
Bibliographic information for the study of the Hebrew Bible,
published by the Catholic Biblical Association of America, this
CD-ROM covers journal articles, books, single and multi-author
works, collected essays and Festschriften.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates 
Periodical Index Online
Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents
Index - a database of millions of articles published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
List
of religious studies journals in PIO
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Philosopher's Index
Philosopher's Index database contains 213,000 bibliographic citations
with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen
fields of philosophy with complete coverage of all major articles
from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German,
Italian, and French -- over 480 journals from 38 countries published
since 1940.
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POIESIS
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials, searchable
access to a database containing the full-text of current, recent,
and back issues of philosophy journals.
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PsycInfo
The major index in the field of Psychology, Psychological Abstracts
includes citations to journals, book chapters, and dissertations
in Psychology.
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RAMBI
RAMBI, Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, is a selective bibliography
of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the
study of Eretz Israel.
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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective together
offer comprehensive indexing and abstracting of some 375 of the
most popular general interest periodicals published in the United
States and Canada since 1890, plus the full text of over 120 of
those periodicals from 1994 - present.
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Religion & Philosophy Collection
Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full
text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making
it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology
and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via
EBSCOhost.
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Religious & Theological Abstracts provides access to 80,000
abstracts of journal articles in religion. It currently abstracts
more than 400 journals, with summaries produced by a team of scholars
from around the world. Coverage includes journals relating to
Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions. English language
abstracts are provided for articles in French, German, Dutch,
Swedish, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish
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RILM
Repertoire International de Litterature
Musicale: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an index to international
scholarly literature on music.
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Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index
Seventh-day Adventist periodical index and obituary list continues
print work of same title.
ACCESS: http://www.andrews.edu/library/car/sdapiindex.html
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Electronic Editions of Relevant Works and Reference Tools
Acta Sanctorum
The Acta Sanctorum are a principal source
of research into the societies and cultures of early Christian
and medieval Europe. They bring together materials on the lives
of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end
of the sixteenth century, in critical editions with commentaries
on the source documents.
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American Religion Data Archive
The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve
quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this
data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons
across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches
and church membership, religious professionals, and religious
groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
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Anchor Bible Dictionary
An electronic version of the Anchor Bible Dictionary is included
in the Libronix Digital Library system.
ACCESS: via Divinity Library Workstation
B (Trowbridge Reference Room) and Divinity
Library Workstation D (Marvin Pope Seminar Room): Start
menu: Libronix: Click on "My Library" menu button
Bar Ilan's Judaic Library
Contains a wide array of classic Judaic
texts, in Hebrew, including Hebrew Bible, various Bible commentaries,
Mishnah, Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, Rashi's commentary
on Talmud Bavli, Halachic and aggadic Midrashim, Responsa from
the 16th to 20th centuries.
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room - see Reference Librarian
for assistance)
The Bible in English
This database contains twenty-one different versions of the English
Bible. In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five
texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just
the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch,
Jonah and the New Testament. The text of each edition is given
in full, including all original introductions, prefaces, appendices,
indices, notes and table. Significant figures and illustrations
from the Renaissance Bibles have also been included.
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BibleWorks
BibleWorks is a Bible concordance and morphological analysis
program. It contains the Hebrew Bible, the Greek Septuagint, the
Latin Vulgate and the Greek New Testament and many translations
of the Bible. List
of Contents
ACCESS:Available on Divinity Library
Workstations: four on round table in Trowbridge Reference
Room, five in L107 (Library computer cluster), and one in Marvin
Pope Biblical Seminar room.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
The BAS Archive includes online journals and online books.
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CETEDOC : see Library
of Latin Texts
Classic Protestant Texts
A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists,
and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of
the 16th and 17th centuries, this electronic collection gives
researchers access to more than 1,500 works from the Reformation
and post-Reformation eras. These works include the theological
writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide
range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical
treatises, and Bible translations.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates
The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference
Library
Makes available for the first time the complete set of photographs
of the Dead Sea scrolls as digitized images. All 800 or so texts
from the eleven caves of Khirbet Qumran, representing some 2,700
photographs, are digitally captured and published here.
ACCESS:Divinity Library Workstation
D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room)
The Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed
An interactive, multimedia CD-ROM guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls
and their background. It explores the original texts, the Qumran
settlement, the Essene Sect, and the scholarship that has gone
into piecing together and interpreting the Scrolls.
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
E (Ground Floor Stacks Carrel E)
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
This database offers a constantly growing treasury of documents,
including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial
manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems,
liturgical writings, saints lives, and devotional works.
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Early Church Fathers (Libronix edition)
Full electronic version of the Edinburgh Edition of the writings
of the Early Church Fathers translated into English. The Logos
Library System edition of the ECF provides the interactive links
between text, footnotes, Bible references and hundreds of Bibles
and Bible reference books available in the Logos Library System
format.
ACCESS:Divinity Library Workstation
B (Trowbridge Reference Room), Divinity
Library Workstation D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room):
Libronix, "My Library"
Early Church Fathers: their writings and teachings (Folio Corporation)
ACCESS: Divinity
Library Workstation E (Ground Floor Stacks Carrel 1)
Early English Books
Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) will
contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue
(1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Includes works
by Augustine, Erasmus, Locke, etc.
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
This encyclopedia includes information on more than 2,300 North
American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists
to Zen Buddhists.
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ETANA
Ancient Near Eastern web resources, including archaeological
excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core
early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public
domain.
ACCESS: Freely available at: http://www.etana.org/
Gutenberg Digital
The Gottingen Gutenberg Bible, Model book, and Helmasperger's
Notarial instrument / edited by Elmar Mittler, Stephan Fussel.
ACCESS:Available at: http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm
Hagiography Database
The database contains bio-bibliographical information about saints
from the 8th-10th centuries. It is divided into sections: Saints'
lists, Authors' lists and a searchable section of citations.
Access is unrestricted: http://www.doaks.org/Hagio.html
JSTOR
JSTOR is a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for development
of a digital library in support of the arts and sciences on the
World Wide Web. It will eventually consist of over one hundred
journal titles in the areas of anthropology, Asian studies, ecology,
economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy,
political science, population studies, and sociology and will
already contains over two million journal page images. These journals
are fully searchable.
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Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
CLCLT, a database for Latin texts, including CETEDOC, contains
texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus,
240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important
patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature
as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the
Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers
such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great,
Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can
thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum
series and other editions.
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Logos Bible Software
A flexible and versatile computerized Bible study sytem that
includes many versions of the Bible, language tools, reference
works, commentaries, etc.
ACCESS: via Divinity Library Workstation
B (Trowbridge Reference Room), Divinity
Library Workstation D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room)
and workstations in L107 (Library
Computer Cluster): Start menu: Libronix: Click on "Home"
menu button to begin scripture searches.
Lutheran Book of Worship
ACCESS: Currently unavailable; update is awaited
Luther's Works (English)
This resource makes available the entire 55 volume set of Luther's
Works published jointly by Fortress Press and Concordia Publishing
House in 1957. The CD includes the entire Luther corpus, the KJV
Bible, and The Book of Concord.
ACCESS: via Divinity Library Workstation
B: Start menu: Libronix: search for Luther in "My
Library"
Luthers Werke - Weimarer Ausgabe
The complete Weimar Edition of Luther's works is a resource for
scholars of German language and literature as well as for theologians,
historians and philosophers. Luthers Werke harnesses complete
and definitive edition to powerful search software. In addition
to Luther's Bible translations and his treatises, the database
includes his sermons, letters, Tischreden, poems and hymns, enabling
scholars to navigate with ease through his works, finding every
occurrence of a word or phrase. Searches may be limited to a particular
work or genre, or expanded to include the entire database.
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Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483-1546
From the Luther-Hall in Wittenberg, the largest museum in the
world devoted to the history of the Reformation, material about
Luther's life and times - hyperlinked, animated, multimedia.
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
E (Ground Floor Stacks Carrel 1)
The United Methodist worship library
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
C, Ministry Resource Center
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Among the 12,000 entries are articles on theology, philosophy,
history, literary figures, saints, musicians and biographies of
contemporary religious figures; thousands of photographs, maps
and illustrations; and updated bibliographical citations.
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New Interpreter's Bible
The New Interpreter's Bible commentary, by more than 100 Protestant,
Catholic, and Jewish biblical scholars, includes hundreds of general
articles, dozens of maps, and hundreds of tables. Version 6 contains
Vols. I-V,VII-IX, XII of the print edition. At the beginning of
each commentary section there is set of buttons that link to the
biblical text.
ACCESS: See Reference Librarian
On Common Ground : world religions in America
Data from the Diana Eck Pluralism Project at Harvard University
ACCESS: via Divinity Library Workstation
E: (Ground Floor Stacks Carrel 1)
Oxford English Dictionary
Online version of the full text of the Dictionary.
ACCESS: Restricted to Yale affiliates 
Oxford Reference Online
Provides online access to the following reference works: A
Dictionary of the Bible; The Oxford Guide to People and Places
of the Bible; A Dictionary of Buddhism; The Concise Oxford Dictionary
of the Christian Church; Oxford Dictionary of Islam; A Concise
Companion to the Jewish Religion; The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;
The Oxford Dictionary of Popes; The Oxford Dictionary of Saints;
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Database
The experimental databases from the Packard Humanities Institute
(PHI) largely complement the TLG database. The two PHI CD's currently
available contain Latin and Bible texts from the Center for the
Computer Analysis of Text at the University of Pennsylvania, the
Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, and texts in Arabic and
Coptic.
ACCESS: Divinity Library Workstation
E: (Ground Floor Stacks Carrel 1)
Papal Letters - Ut per litteras apostolicas-Lettres
Pontificales
The collection Ut per litteras apostolicas is the electronic
version of the series of papal registers and letters of the 13th
and 14th centuries preserved in the Vatican Secret Archives in
Rome.
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Past Masters
Full-text, searchable versions of many important philosophical
writings, including the collected works in English of Aquinas,
Aristotle, Berkeley, Calvin, Dewey, Hume, Locke, Santayana and
Sidgwick; the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Anselm's Opera Omnia,
Hegel's Werke, Nietzsche's Werke, Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers
and Samlede Værker, Luther's Sermons, Ockham's Work of Ninety
Days and Wittgenstein's Published Works. ACCESS:
Restricted to Yale affiliates;
Patrologia Latina Database
The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) is a comprehensive electronic
version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's massive Patrologiae
Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes. The Patrologia
Latina, though originally published in the 19th century, still
represents the only scholarly edition of many works.
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Patrologiae Graecae
Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material
(with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history
of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council
of Florence in 1439. J.-P. Migne, a priest from 1824-1833, moved
to Paris and began the work of assembling an enormous body of
early texts from 1833 till his death in 1873. His work consists
of the The Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca (Paris,
1857-1866), 161 volumes (a.k.a PG), and the Patrologiae Cursus
Completus, Series Latina (Paris, 1844-1855), 221 volumes
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Paulys Real-encyclopadie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
Gesamtregister
Index to the standard scholarly German work covering the fields
of classical literature, history, antiquities, biography, etc.
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D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room)
The Presbyterian Hymnal: Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs
The hymnal can be searched by first line or common title, tune
name, subject, keyword, author, etc. A brief history of each hymn
is included.
ACCESS: Currently unavailable; update awaited
The Rite Song, The Rite Stuff
Music and Liturgy Planning resources for
the Episcopal Church.
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A (Trowbridge Reference Room) and Workstation
C (Ministry Resource Center)
Shakespeare, Editions and Adaptations
of
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major
editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition
of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual
plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition,
it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques
from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninteenth centuries, including
the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).
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Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
A free resource, the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, was designed from its inception (September 1995)
as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each
entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group
of experts in the field.
ACCESS: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Unabridged)
Kittel's TDNT treats more than 2,300 theologically significant
words, including important prepositions, numbers, and proper names.
Each entry discusses a word's secular Greek background, its role
in the Old Testament and extrabiblical literature, and its various
uses in the New Testament.
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B (Trowbridge Reference Room), Divinity
Library Workstation D (Marvin Pope Biblical Seminar Room):
Start menu: Libronix: "My Library"
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) database is the work-in-progress
of an ambitious project housed at the University of California,
Irvine. The TLG aims to produce a data bank of all ancient Greek
authors and texts extant from the period between Homer and 600
C.E., including New Testament authors. TLG contains nearly 2,900
authors and more than 8,000 individual pieces of extant writing
in Greek. The current release is virtually complete through 200
C.E.
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United Methodist Worship Library
"All the tools needed to design and implement creative worship
celebrations."
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C (Near Ministry Resource Center)
Vatican Council II - the Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents
Includes the 16 original constitutions and decrees of the Vatican
Council II and 49 documents issued after the close of the council.
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