Databases

EBSCO – is a suite of religious and theological databases including electronic books. These databases can be searched separately or concurrently. Help Tutorials see below:

Informit – contains a series of Australian databases covering Education, APA-FT Australian Public Affairs-Full Text, Business, Families and Society Collection, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indigenous Collection, Literature and Culture Collection. You can search individually or as a complete collection. Informit help

Oxford Religion Handbooks Online: is a collection of 113 peer reviewed electronic handbooks on Religious issues. The collection contains in-depth research and high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Oxford Handbooks is one of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/about 

• Oxford Very Short Introductions – Religion Collection: offers short original introductions to a wide range of religious subjects. Each eBook is written by experts in a given field to provide key points, facts, analysis and insights on topics. The books are an excellent resource to develop your core understanding on a given subject. The Religion subject area offers access to 70 key eBook introductions from ‘Abrahamic Religions’ to ‘Zionism’. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/page/about

Oxford Biblical Studies Online – Search across multiple versions of the Bible, and compare different texts and commentaries in an innovative side-by-side view. Contains more than 5,000 A-Z entries and chapters from Oxford references. Hundreds of images and maps provide visual perspectives of the biblical world. Tools & Resources contains Internet resources selected by specialists in the field, tables and charts of biblical calendars, weights and measures, suggested reading lists for further research, and more. Tutorial: Guided Tour

New Interpreter’s Bible, A Commentary in Twelve Volumes (2012) –  an excellent commentary resource for all students and scholars. The series includes general articles, commentary and reflections for each book of the Bible including the Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books.

 

Biblical Commentaries – Also included in the NIB subscription are links to additional Biblical Commentaries including:

• • Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries
  • Abingdon New Testament Commentary
  • Believer’s Church Bible Commentary
  • Interpreting Biblical Texts
  • Interpreter’s One Volume Commentary
  • The Interpreter’s Bible
  • Basic Bible Commentary

NOTE: If the Links don’t open to the individual commentaries, please click on the BROWSE tab and click on the entry that way.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion brings together the writings of scholars from around the globe exploring the practice, philosophy, influence and lived experience of religion. The resource contains over 300 in-depth, peer reviewed articles and is updated monthly. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion includes information on the world’s many religions, the study of scriptures, practices, social contexts and history across religious traditions. Tutorial: Guided Tour

Google Scholar – Google Scholar can be useful for finding search terms and some free resources. It searches across many disciplines and sources for scholarly literature including articles, theses, books and abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.  (Please note, ATL students will have some access restrictions on viewing articles). Google Scholar help (Flinders students are recommended to search Google Scholar via the Flinders University Library A-Z Database page as you can link directly through to articles).

Sharing the World – eLibrary is an open source of theological library resources freely available to assist seminarians, theology students and clergy, pastoral workers and others lacking access to adequate theological library resources.

ARI Australia – The Australasian Religion Index (ARI) is an author and subject index covering over eighty religious and theological serials published in Australia or New Zealand and representing all religious traditions. ARI indexes articles, notes and book reviews in religious studies, theology and related fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Flinders A-Z Databases – (Flinders students only)

Theses collections – All Flinders University theses are held by the library are catalogued on FindIt@Flinders.

The library holds copies of all higher degree theses (doctorates and masters level), either in digital or hard copy format. Many honours theses are also held in hard copy. Adelaide Theological Library also has copies of some theology theses.

• Go to FindIt@Flinders
• Select Advanced Search on the right hand side
• Type in the title for e.g. “Uniting church” or “Adelaide College of Divinity” and “thesis”
• Select Material Type and click on Flinders Thesis

• eTHOS – Electronic thesis online service (British Library)
• RIM – Research in ministry (ATLA)
• TREN – Theological research exchange network
• TROVE – NLA (search allows to limit by “thesis” format)
• CRL – Center for Research Libraries dissertations
• DEEP – DART Europe E-theses Portal
• EBSCO  – Open Dissertations

Trove – Find Australian and online resources including: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

 

• To find theses written by students of Adelaide College of Divinity click: Research & Reports

 

• Than on the next page select ‘Thesis” in Format
• Add in further information such as Title of thesis, subject, author, or keywords to refine your search