Library

Library Services at CGST:

The shared library, Zenas Gerig LIBRARY (ZGL) has provided the following resources for our current students.

OPEN SOURCE ONLINE RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY ZGL

BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
Bible Gateway
Christian Classics Ethereal Library: An online collection of hundreds of classic Christian books including works from the early church fathers to the twentieth century.
Church History & Historical Theology
New Testament Gateway
Non canonical Literature-Wesley Center Online: Documents to aid students and scholars in Biblical Interpretation including introductions and summaries of many non-canonical works
Princeton Theological Commons: An expanding digital library of over 80,000 resources in various formats on theology and religion
Society of Biblical Literature publications
Yale library Resources on religion and theology

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

DISABILITY STUDIES

EDUCATION

ERIC / US Department of Education [English, French, Spanish] -- includes references to journal articles and non-journal material covering all aspects of education.
The Educator’s Reference Desk
The Internet TESL Journal for teachers of English as a second language that includes articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts and teaching ideas

MINISTRY

MISSIONS

Evangelical Missiological Society Journal Archives & book titles on missions
Global Missiology An internal e-journal
Joshua Project A research initiative highlighting ethnic people groups
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization A worldwide movement mobilizing for world evangelization (Click on documents)
MisLinks A Web-based Missions Directory
Missiology.org Resources for missions education
Missionary E-texts Archive An electronic repository of historical texts by, about and for missionaries
Theological Studies – Missions

PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION

PSYCHOLOGY

American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society Teaching resources
Encyclopedia of Psychology
PsychWeb Information for students and teachers of psychology
PsychScholar Index to resources for psychological scholars
National Institute of Mental Health
Mental Measurement Yearbook Index from Buros
Society for Christian Counsellors (division of American Assoc. of Christian Counselors)

SOCIOLOGY/SOCIAL SCIENCES

Academic Info Sociology: Databases and Centers
American Sociological Association
BBC News: Country Profiles
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean
ECLAC/Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee Research in a variety of socio-economic subject areas
International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) Access to books, journals, articles and country reports on the violation of religious freedom worldwide
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) International Development Statistics Online databases on aid and other resource flows
Political Resources on the Web
Popline – the world’s largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health.
Social Care Online
Social Science Information Gateway
The SocioWeb
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN/ECLAC) Documentation Centre. Access to Caribbean documents on the Internet
USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse
World Bank Group data on living standards around the globe — some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back several years
World Public Opinion.org Giving voice to public opinion around the world

VARIOUS SUBJECT AREAS

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) Scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University
Google books Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide
Google Scholar Facilitates citation searching of scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from a broad range of research areas.
HathiTrust Collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries
Highwire Press (Stanford University)
List of journals offering free online access to developing economies.
Intute helps to find websites for study & research
Mona Online Research Database Scholarly output from faculty and staff of The University of the West Indies
National Library of Jamaica Facilitates access to Jamaica’s cultural heritage
The Online Books Page
Open Library Gateway to a wide range of online information resources - maintained like a wiki (everyone puts in information), use for information not accuracy)
Project Gutenberg E-books
Thousands of World Newspapers at Your Finger Tips
UN World Digital Library Items about over 190 countries between 8000 BCE & 2000
US Embassy, Kingston, Information Resource Centre
WWW Virtual Library A directory of resources

GENERAL REFERENCE