Academic journal database containing many full text articles. Includes ATLA Religion Database which indexes religious journals, essays, etc. Also includes Christian Periodical Index, Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts.
Films on Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to stream thousands of academic films and documentaries. These videos cover several different subject areas such as history, counseling, business, and science. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire video collection.
Through the WorldCat database, which contains records of materials in libraries worldwide, MBTS Library students, faculty, and staff can find books, videos, DVDs, magazine articles and other items in libraries around the world.
The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to high quality research and public education on ways that law and public policy can strengthen marriage as a social institution. Working with top scholars, public officials, and community leaders, iMAPP brings the latest research to bear on important policy questions, seeking to promote thoughtful, informed discussion of marriage and family policy at all levels of American government, academia, and civil society.
General (Multidisciplinary)
Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences (INCLUDING MANY IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS VOLUMES NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER DATABASES) from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
A group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of mostly 20th century books on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it’s already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons with an OpenLibrary.org account can borrow any of these lendable eBooks using laptops, reading devices or library c
OverDrive is a free service offered by your Midwestern Library that lets you borrow digital content (like ebooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press. Key features of the Oxford DNB include: A responsive design enabling seamless access across different formats; Searching using a query builder, helping you get straight to the content you need; Social media integration, so you can share content across channels; Searching across multimedia, including images and podcasts where available, making it easier to find different types of content.