Library Guides: BIB-499/ THE-499/ CHRM-499 Senior Paper: Books & ebooks

ebook Databases

Cambridge Companions to Religion Collection This link opens in a new window
Each volume in this series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies contains specially commissioned essays by international scholars; provides and accessible and stimulating introduction to each subject.
Digital Karl Barth Library This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of most of Karl Barth's works.
A major online collection of Karl Barth's works provided by Princeton Theological Seminary and Theologischer Verlag Zurich; researchers can cross-search among all Barth's works. Results can be viewed, organized, and analyzed at an unprecedented
pace and precision.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
TIP: The Bookshelf feature allows you to store ebooks, create notes, highlight text, add Web links, and more. To access or create your personalized bookshelf, click the Bookshelf link in Ebook Central and sign in using your ORU Single Sign-On (SSO). To delete ebook titles, highlights and notes in your bookshelf, use the delete trash icon at the right in your folder.
View Ebook Central how-to videos
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks including titles in the Christian Librarians collections.
Video tutorial: Downloading EBSCO eBooks
Information from EBSCO concerning Accessibility use of ebooks.
Direct link into the Religion Collection
eBook Religion Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This eBook collection provides titles covering diverse worldwide religions and explores areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion This link opens in a new window
"...Essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies."
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Christianity This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of 20th century theologians' major works
Full-text ebooks cross-searchable by subject, author, religion, work. "Researchers can search across hundreds of fully-digitized documents to instantly compare how different theories, denominations, and cultural groups have intersected, differed, and influenced one another."
"A multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the first decade of the 21st century. This resource represents voices from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam featuring significant thinkers of history."

Books & ebooks

Books: Search the library opens new windowcatalog for ORU holdings. For books held elsewhere, look in WorldCat (opens new windowFirstSearch or opens new windowopen access). Another way to locate books is to browse the opens new windowB Library of Congress class numbers either by doing a call number search for the desired classification in the library opens new windowcatalog or by browsing the B section in the Reference area or in Main (where books that may be checked out are shelved).

opens new windowEbooks: The ORU Library provides access to three major collections of ebooks: the EBSCO opens new windowebook Collection, the EBSCO eBook Religion Collection and opens new windowEbook Central (ProQuest). The EBSCO ebook collection has over 9,799 related to opens new windowreligion and over 1,100 related to opens new windowpsychology and sociology while the opens new windowebook Religion Collection has over 8,500 titles. Ebook Central has over 10,000 titles in opens new windowreligion and 2,900 titles in opens new windowpsychology.

To use such ebook functions as annotating and downloading, sign up for a personal account in both opens new windowEbook Central and opens new windowebook Collection (EBSCOhost). For more on how to use and download ebooks, see the opens new windowebooks@ORU guide.

Library of Congress Classification - Class Numbers Most Relevant to Theology & Ministry

B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
- B-BD - Philosophy
- BF - Psychology
- BJ - Ethics
- BL - Religions
- BM - Judaism
- BP - Islam, etc.
- BQ - Buddhism
- BR - Christianity
- BS - The Bible
- BT - Doctrinal Theology
- BV - Practical Theology
- BX - Christian denominations
  - BX8762-8785 - Pentecostal churches
H - Social Sciences (General)
- HQ -The Family, Marriage, Women
P - Language and Literature
- PA - Greek; Latin
- PJ4543-4937 - Hebrew (Biblical and modern)
- PJ5201-5329.5 - Aramaic
- PJ5401-5809 - Syriac