Article Index
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
- Bookboon.com
- Free Management Library
- Businessballs.com
- Univ. of South Carolina Library
- Project Management websites
- Business Ethics
- Global EDGE
- Views Wire Business intelligence on over 200 countries
DISABILITY STUDIES
- Disability Studies Quarterly
- Disability Online Resource Centre
- Disability Resources Monthly (DRM)
- Disability Studies Unit – UWI, St. Augustine T & T
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
- ATLA Research in Ministry
- Child in Religion and ethics project
- Christianity Today Articles, news, book reviews
- Sermons
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
- Adherents.com World religion statistics
- Dictionary of African Christian Biography
- EpistemeLinks.com
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Religion Online
- Religions and Scriptures
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- World Evangelical Alliance
- World Council of Churches
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
- Bartleby: Reference Online versions to some well-known reference works
- Lexicool.com Online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Online