Video Tutorials
How to Find Books and ebooks
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ORU Library 2020 2:26
Finding Articles in Periodicals
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ORU Library, 2020, 4:59
How to Find and Use Ebooks
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How to Find Books & ebooks: Advanced Search Tips
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Need some research help? Check out these Research Guides:
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- opens new windowBible Commentaries Plus
- opens new windowBiblical Research
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- opens new windowChurch History Research
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- opens new windowCopyright Guidelines
- opens new windowCountries, Cultures, and Missions
- opens new windowHoly Spirit Research Center
- opens new windowJob and Career Resources
- opens new windowLanguage & Literature Research
- opens new window Library News - COTM - Spring 2019
- opens new window Library Orientation - New Faculty Cohort 2018
- opens new windowModern Language Research
- opens new windowMusic Research
- opens new windowPlagiarism
- opens new windowDMIN 711: Ministerial Identity and Personal Assessment
- opens new windowDMIN 787: Methods for Ministry Research
- opens new windowGTHE-517, seminar in Theological Research, Graduate
- opens new windowPSY-401, Experimental Psychology Lecture, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowBIB-362 Jesus & the Gospels: Course Guide
- opens new windowBIB-372 Revelation & Writings of John: Course Guide
- opens new windowBIB-499/ THE-499/ CHRM-499 Senior Paper: Course Guide
- opens new windowDistance Learners: Theology & Ministry Research
- opens new windowDMIN-711 Ministerial Identity and Personal Assessment: Course Guide
- opens new windowDMIN-787 Methods for Ministry Course Guide
- opens new windowDMIN-788 Tools for Ministry Course Guide
- opens new windowGTHE-517 Seminar in Theological Research, Graduate
- opens new windowPSY-201 Principles of Psychology, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowPSY-324 Cognitive Psychology, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowPSY-340 Research Design & Analysis, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowPSY-355 Child Psychology, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowPSY-401 Experimental Psychology Lecture, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowSWK-499 Senior Research Paper, Social Work, Course Research Guide
- opens new windowTHE-217 seminar in Theological Research, Undergraduate, Course Guide
Citation/Document Management
The next time you use an EBSCOhost database, create your own personal account by clicking "Sign in," and then "Create your own account." Be sure to keep track of the user name and password you select. After that, all you have to do to access anything you've saved to your personal folder is to sign in from any EBSCOhost database or from EagleSearch. To save citations to your EBSCOhost folder, click the title of the item and then the folder icon in that record.
Go to Ebook Central and the "sign-in" link in the upper right menu, and sign in using your ORU Network user name and password to set up and access your personal Ebook Central bookshelf.
In the upper right-hand corner of the ProQuest dissertation database, click the icon of a person and "Sign into My Research." First-time users may create an account. Thereafter, sign in as an existing user.
To add a citation of an item in a database to the bibliography of your research project, click the "cite" link or icon provided, select the desired citation style, and copy and paste the citation into the document. Please note: all machine-generated citations need to be carefully proofread and corrected to conform to style manual guidelines.
Download the PDF of a journal article, give it a file name that includes the author's last name and the first few words of the article title, then save to one of a set of folders in the cloud and/or on your laptop hard drive that is arranged by the chapter or section of the research project to which it relates.
Formatting Graduate Theology Papers
NOTE: if you have difficulty applying the following tutorials to a written paper, consider creating a separate blank, formatted document based on these instructions. Save it as a blank template naming it something like BLANK_FORMATTED_TEMPLATE somewhere you can easily find it. Then copy and paste in each part of your written paper into the appropriate section. Then save your formatted paper with a new name; that is, don't save as your blank template.
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NEW, UPDATED VERSION:
Formatting papers on a PC (running Windows OS):
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers - Margins first part of a 2 part video tutorial
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers - marginsPart 1 (PDF handout)
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers - Page Numbers second part of a 2 part video tutorial
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers - Page NumbersPart 2 (PDF handout)
Formatting papers on a MAC:
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers on a MAC - MarginsPart 1 (PDF handout)
- Formatting Graduate Theology Papers on a MAC - PaginationPart 2 (PDF handout)