Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Research in Ministry
Has someone already written my DMin thesis? Check this index to DMin theses, produced by the American Theological Library Association.
http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm
Dissertations and Theses
And what about all the Drew DMin dissertations? Many of them are fulltext online in this database. Limit your search by Drew=School, D.Min.=Degree, to find them.
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Need to know the percentage of women clergy in the church? Check here for facts, statistics, sociological research and the online Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/
TextWeek
What’s the Epistle for this week? And which year of the Revised Common Lectionary cycle is it, anyway? Check here for exegetical inspiration, from webmistress J. Woodard.
http://www.textweek.com/
Ebrary Academic Complete & Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
No library nearby? Or the available ones all closed? Frustrated by all those online books Google can only partially show? Search in these 2 databases for over 75,000 fulltext online titles.
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
Chicago Manual of Style
How do I footnote an unpaged article in an online database? The online Chicago Manual of Style tells all. [Answer is in rule 17.181, if you can find it!]
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-title
Other Online Reference books…
These are multiplying at an alarming rate. See this page for links to a few of them: Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Encyclopedia of Religion in America... http://www.drew.edu/library/resourcetype/religion_theologysites