OPAC (Local)
ONLINE RESOURCES
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LIBRARY DATABASES
EBSCOhost -- full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers featuring from general reference collections to specially designed subject-specific databases.
http://search.ebscohost.com (for Zenas Gerig Library members)
Academic Search Elite -- Covering virtually every area of academic study dating as far back as 1985.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 – access to a new bibliographic database of European works that relate to the Americas covering a wide range of subject areas; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Religion and Philosophy Collection -- Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
SocINDEX with Full Text -- Comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. It includes journals, books, monographs, and conference papers containing information dating back to 1908.
ERIC -- the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
LISTA -- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts -- Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship and information management.
GreenFILE -- offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) – provides indexing and abstracts for over 260 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Society of Biblical Literature – PDF files for a variety of SBL publications
www.sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx
Newspaper Archives of the Jamaica Gleaner
This online database contains more than 970,000 historical newspaper pages from The Gleaner. The full-page newspapers, dating back to 1834, are searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
http://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com (for Zenas Gerig Library members)
OTHER USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES (free to all users)
| BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL STUDIES | |
| American Theological Library Assoc. (ATLA) Journals -- Free Theological Journals | http://www.atla.com/international_collab/ejournals.pdf |
| Bible Gateway | http://www.biblegateway.com/ |
| Online Bibles – Bible Study Tools | http://www.bibles-for-the-world.com/ |
| Church History & Historical Theology | http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/chht/index.html |
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library An online collection of hundreds of classic Christian books including works from the early church fathers to the twentieth century. | |
| New Testament Gateway | http://www.ntgateway.com/ |
| Okeanos Ancient Near Eastern Studies | http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/okeanos.html |
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Noncanonical Literature | http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/index.htm |
| BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT | |
| Bookboon.com | Bookboon.com |
| Free Management Library | http://managementhelp.org/ |
| Businessballs.com | www.businessballs.com |
| Univ. of South Carolina Library | www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/management.html |
| Project Management websites | www.projectminds.com/usefulwebsite.html |
| Business Ethics | http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm |
| GlobalEDGE | http://globaledge.msu.edu/ |
| Newslink Business Newspapers | http://newslink.org/biznews.html
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| DISABILITY STUDIES | |
| Disability Studies Quarterly (journal) |
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| Disability Online Resource Centre | http://www.disability-online.com/Lifestyle/index.html
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| Disability Resources Monthly (DRM) | http://www.disabilityresources.org/
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| Disability Studies Unit – UWI, St. Augustine T&T
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| EDUCATION
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| ERIC / US Department of Education [English, French, Spanish] -- includes references to journal articles and non-journal material covering all aspects of education. The database contains over 1.1 million citations from 1966 to the present. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are available. |
http://www.eric.ed.gov |
| The Educator’s Reference Desk | http://www.eduref.org
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| The Internet TESL Journal Journal for teachers of English as a second language that includes articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts and teaching ideas | http://iteslj.org
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| American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Communication of Research Provides links to more than 200 electronic journals that are “scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text and accessible without cost.”
| http://aera-cr.asu.edu
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| PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, MISSIONS
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| EpistemeLinks. com | http://www.epistemelinks.com/ |
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | http://www.iep.utm.edu/ |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | http://plato.stanford.edu/contents-unabridged.html |
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| Religion Online | |
| Religions and Scriptures | http://www.wright-house.com/religions/
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| Adherents.com World religion statistics | |
| Yale library | http://www.library.yale.edu/div/forfree.html#articles
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| Theological Studies – Missions | http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/doct_missions.php
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| Missiology.org Resources for missions education |
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| Joshua Project A research initiative highlighting ethnic people groups | |
| Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization A worldwide movement mobilizing for world evangelization (Click on Documents) | |
| Global Missiology An international e-journal | |
| Missionary E-texts Archive An electronic repository of historical texts by, about and for missionaries | |
| MisLinks A Web-based Missions Directory | |
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| Evangelical Missiological Society Journal Archives & book titles on missions | |
| Dictionary of African Christian Biography | |
| World Evangelical Alliance (Click on Resources) | |
| World Council of Churches (Click on Library & Archives) | |
| PSYCHOLOGY
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| American Psychological Association |
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| American Psychological Society Teaching resources |
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| Encyclopedia of Psychology |
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| PsychWeb Information for students and teachers of psychology | |
| PsychScholar Index to resources for psychological scholars | |
| National Institute of Mental Health | |
| Mental Measurement Yearbook Index from Buros | http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES | |
| Academic Info Sociology: Databases and Centers
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| American Sociological Association |
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| BBC News: Country Profiles | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
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| USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse |
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| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) International Development Statistics Online databases on aid and other resource flows | www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline
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| Political Resources on the Web | http://www.politicalresources.net
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| The International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) Access to books, journals, articles and country reports on the violation of religious freedom worldwide. | http://www.iirf.eu/index.php?id=167&L=0
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| Popline -- the world’s largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health.
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| Social Care Online | |
| Social Science Information Gateway |
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| The SocioWeb | |
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| ECLAC/Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee Publications represent research in a variety of socio- economic subject areas. |
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| United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN/ECLAC). Documentation Centre. The Centre’s Caribbean Digital Library provides access to Caribbean documents on the Internet. |
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| ViewsWire Business intelligence on 203 countries
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| World Bank Group data on living standards around the globe — some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. | http://data.worldbank.org/ |
World Public Opinion.org Giving voice to public opinion around the world | http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/ |
| VARIOUS SUBJECT AREAS
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| Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
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| Google books Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide | |
| Google Scholar
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| Project Gutenberg – E-books
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| Highwire Press (Stanford University) | http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
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| Intute helps to find websites for study & research | |
| Mona Online Research Database This site offers campus wide representation of scholarly output from faculty and staff of The University of the West Indies.
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| Facilitates access to Jamaica’s cultural heritage | http://www.nlj.gov.jm/ |
| The Online Books Page | http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
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| Open Library Gateway to a wide range of online information resources.
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| WWW Virtual Library A directory of resources | |
GENERAL REFERENCE
| Bartleby: Reference Online versions to some well-known reference works | http://www.bartleby.com/reference/ |
| Lexicool.com Online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries | http://www.lexicool.com/ |
| Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Online | http://www.merriam-webster.com/ |
