Research & Writing Resources

 

Useful Writing Guidelines

Libraries

Online Research

Academic eJournals

Academic eBooks

Tyndale's Online Reading Rooms

  • For discipline & course specific resources for theology, see Tyndale's Reading Rooms

Bibliographic Management Tools

  • Zotero is "a free, easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the Web browser itself." The Zotero add-on is an easy way to collect references when using the Firefox Web browser (Recommended)

Academic eAudio Books

  • Limited number of MP3 downloads; sample: N.T. Wright, Henri Nouwen, Karl Barth, C.S. Lewis, Augustine, Dorothy Day, Brother Lawrence and others. You can access these eAudio books from within Tyndale's Netlibrary database.

 

Searching on the Internet

(The following good advice comes from Yale University Divinity Library) "Care must be taken in searching for information on the Internet. Unlike both the print resources found in the library and the electronic databases provided by the library, freely available Internet resources have not necessarily been published by reputable academic publishers nor have they been selected by librarians with expertise in their subject area. Nearly anything can be posted on a website, and just because it is available online does not mean it is valid or authoritative. However, this does not mean that you cannot find good resources on the Internet; the key to doing so is to carefully evaluate what you find on the web. If you use web resources, be sure to ask these questions:

  • Who is the author of the Web site? Are the author's credentials listed?
  • What institution or organization is behind the Web site?
  • When was the Web site created or last updated?
  • Who is the intended audience for the Web site?
  • Is the information provided objective or biased?
  • How does information provided by the site compare to other works, including print works?"

Take these fun and very useful tutorials for developing your skills at evaluating and identifying authoritative resources in the Internet:

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