Resources
You must be VTS Trustee, faculty, staff or a registered student with a valid library card to use the following online subscription databases from the Bishop Payne Library.
Electronic Aids for Creating CitationsRefWorks is a bibliography manager that allows you to create your own database of citations and format footnotes and bibliographies by importing references from the library catalog or online databases. The first time that you use this software, you must establish a personal account. Additional help is available at RefWorks Help. A tutorial is available at RefWorks Tutorial.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The definitive guide to creating citations and bibliographies in University of Chicago format, available full-text online.
Full-Text Theology Research Databases
Theology, Religion and Psychology Databases
A portal to ATLA Religion and ATLASerials (full-text), Ebsco Religion and Philsophy (full-text), PsycARTICLES (full-text), New Testament Abstracts, Old Testament Abstracts, and Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (citations).
Mobile users (Android, Blackberry, DellAxim, iPhone, Pam750) click this link to use the mobile version for searching: Mobile version
Choose one or any combination of databases to search at one time. Please email paynelib@vts.edu if you have any questions.
ProQuest Religion provides full-text articles from 120 journals, magazines and newspapers in the field of religion. Coverage is 1986 - present, and indexing is very current.
iPreach is an online collection of commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and other lectionary resources for exegetical research and sermon preparation.
This resource includes 'The Church Dogmatics' in English and the origial german, as well as the first 36 volumes of 'Gesamtausgabe' and additional not yet published material. New content will be added quarterly.
Full-Text VTS Scanned Materials
For access to full text online materials available through the VTS web pages please click here
Other Research Databases
OCLC FirstSearch is a portal providing access to 28 different electronic research databases on all subject areas, including ArticleFirst, Dissertations Abstracts, and ERIC.
Oxford Music Online provides full-text resources for music research including full-text articles and biographies from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.
This database provides a comprehensive collection of materials on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture, including primary source documents, articles, images, charts, maps, and tables.
56,646 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2004. Updated 3 times yearly.
WorldCat is a world-wide bibliographic database compiling the holdings of thousands of libraries. VTS patrons can use WorldCat to place electronic interlibrary loan requests.
The definitive lexicon of the English language provides definitions and the history and etymological sources of words. It is updated quarterly with at least 1,000 new and revised entries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a comprehensive general encyclopedia with over 73,000 full-text articles and links to recommended websites on every topic.
Theological Citation Databases (no full-text)
This database indexes Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology theses from schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, abstract and subject access are provided. Remote access is availble to all.