Online Resources
Below is a list of databases. Some databases are only available on terminals connected to the Tyndale computer network, including the Computer Lab. Remote access to the electronic databases provided by these services is available (remote access help).
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles and. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.
The ATLA Historical Monographs Collection consists of two series that provide access to more than 29,000 titles—or more than 5 million pages—focused on religion and theology. Dating mostly from 1850 through 1922, a time of great doctrinal, social and organizational turmoil and upheaval in western culture, this resource is vital for scholars seeking to understand religious thought and practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries
The ATLA Historical Monographs Collection Series 2 consists of more than 14,000 titles—or more than 5 million pages—focused on religion and theology. Dating from 1894 through 1922, a time of great doctrinal, social and organizational turmoil and upheaval in American culture, this resource is vital for scholars seeking to understand religious thought and practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerialsPLUS is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. In 2018 content from the ATLA Catholic Literature Index was added to this database with additional full text content.
ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (ATLA CPLI) provides indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism. Content within its scope is selected for indexing based on enduring scholarly merit.Coverage is from 1981 to the present.
Provides access to English language articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective from 1957 to present. The J. William Horsey Library maintains back files of most of the titles listed in this database. Check the catalogue for local holdings.
DOAJ - the Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The directory contains 7757 journals covering all subjects and languages (of these, 3774 journals are searchable at the article level).
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
EBR is a research tool for scholars in biblical studies and related fields but also useful to readers generally interested in the Bible. It is edited by a team of international scholars, all experts in their fields.
Flip through popular magazines including Christianity Today, Books and Culture: a Christian Review, Education Canada, Writer's Digest and more. Tablet friendly.
A growing archive of digitized books and other materials from academic libraries in the United States and Canada. Includes advanced search and display features. A great amount of material here is in the public domain. Free to use, you just have to register.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews.
The OREs offer long-form overview articles written and edited by leading scholars and researchers, addressing both foundational and cutting-edge topics across the major disciplines. Designed for people at the start of serious research on an unfamiliar topic.
Designed to inform academic research at all levels, the Oxford Research Encyclopedias will be a constantly growing and evolving reference source. Each subject goes beyond the basic facts to contextualize topics within existing scholarship and help pave the way to deeper engagement and inquiry.
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields published from 1940 to present.
Contains over 19,000 out of print ebooks. This is a free resource. Use it anywhere.
Project Muse provides current electronic access to over 350 academic journals in many academic disciplines. Titles in this collection are published by nonprofit and University Presses.
The Proquest Religion Database provides full text online access to articles from over 90 of the most important religious and theological journals. Many titles have been indexed for more than ten years.
Contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 45 journals published by the American Psychological Association and eight journals from allied organizations.
PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 18,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,400 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes more than 700 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Streaming videos covering family therapy, legal/ethical issues for mental health professions, and a wide range of modalities, theoretical approaches, and populations. As of April 2017 Tyndale has one video that is streamed: Emotionally Focused Therapy in Action. Some other video titles are held by the library as DVDs. For off campus users, use the following link: http://ezproxy.mytyndale.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.psychotherapy.net/stream/tyndale
PsycINFO contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s links to full text in PsycArticles.
This Facts on File database facilitates the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills.