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ONLINE RESEARCH DATABASES - EBSCO & PROQUEST

These databases allow electronic access to numerous articles and books.

The full text of journal articles are available on some, but not all, of these databases. If you are unable to access the full text of an article in which you are interested, email reference@wciu.edu to obtain an electronic copy of the article. If you cannot read an article on your computer because you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here to download this free software.

 
 

EBSCOHOST DATABASES

A wealth of research databases including:

Academic Search Premier

  • A multi-disciplinary database providing full text for over 4,600 journals

  • Over one hundred journals

  • Searchable cited references for over 1,000 titles

OpenDissertations

  • Open Acces

  • Historic and contemporary dissertations and theses

  • Early 20th century to the present.

eBooks Collection

  • More than 33,000 multidisciplinary e-books from more than 90 of the best university presses in the world

  • Covers a variety of subjects such as technology, science, literature and humanities

  • Offers basic introductory texts to high-level research materials.

PROQUEST

Curtesy of Digital Theological Library

  • Official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research.

  • Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

ONLINE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH RESOURCES

  • A database of on-line development research resources, organized by topic, everything from agriculture to anthropology to religion.

  • The numerous open source e-journals are especially valuable.

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GENERAL COLLECTIONS

Latourette Library consists of a general collection of books focused on mission and religious studies, with also a significant collection of biblical and theological studies. It also includes a collection of theses and dissertations, of inly WCIU scholars.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

There are also four special collections, each with a particular focus. The largest of these is the Ralph D. Winter library, over 8 thousand volumes left behind by Ralph Winter, many with marginal markings he made while reading. Nearly as large is the South Asia Collection, a unique amalgamation of books from South Asia with a focus on Christianity in India but also Hindu studies, contextual theologies, etc. The Donald A. McGavran collection is 1,400 books that Dr. McGavran left to our library, with obvious focal points on church growth and on India, but a wide-ranging collection of mostly mission-related books, some with his marginal notations. Finally, a full collection of books published by William Carey Library (now William Carey Publishing) is housed as a fourth special collections.

WINTER/MCGAVERN ARCHIVES

The Ralph D. Winter Research Center is in Pasadena, California at William Carey International University. It houses the personal papers of Ralph Winter and Donald McGavran, two missiologists who were leaders in their field of frontier mission in the 20th century. It also houses the institutional records of entities Winter founded or was instrumental in starting over the course of his profession. This includes the U.S. Center for World Mission (now renamed to Frontier Ventures) and William Carey International University. In addition, there are numerous visual materials dating as far back as the early 1900s, specifically photographs and slides that are gradually being scanned and can be viewed online.”