Databases

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of over 5,400 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences.

ALEX is the database of congregations currently and historically affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. ALEX contains participation and stewardship data for these congregations since the calendar year 2000. It also provides the authoritative list of the 2,900 congregations currently in covenant relationship with the Disciples.

*To access this resource, please contact the Library at ptslibrary@ptstulsa.edu for the username and password.

Search the Atla and EBSCO databases for articles on your research topic.

Our EBSCO collection includes the Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials, Academic Search Premier, EBSCO eBooks, Old Testament Abstracts, and New Testament Abstracts. 

Published from 1987 to 1995, Black Sacred Music sought to establish theomusicology—a theologically informed musicology—as a distinct discipline, incorporating methods from anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to examine the full range of black sacred music. Topics included black secular music, the early days of rap, soul, jazz, civil rights songs, the religious music of Africa and the African diaspora, spirituals, gospel music, and the music of the black church.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online is a guide to grammar, style, and usage for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers.

Classic Sermon Index provides indexing to 64,000+ classic sermons. All are indexed and searchable by primary biblical reference, 75% are hyperlinked to the full sermon, 20,000 are indexed by topic. Date searching goes back to the 2nd century.

Credo Reference is a full-text reference service. The Phillips religion collection includes The Brill Dictionary of Religion, The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church, Encyclopedia of Protestantism, and The Blackwell Companion to Jesus.

Ebook Central curates the library’s ProQuest eBooks. These are also accessible through the online catalog alongside our other eBooks.

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is the first and only comprehensive reference work devoted to the Bible and its reception.

Since the publication of its first two volumes in 2009, EBR has continued to break new ground and is an indispensable reference work not only for theology and religious studies, but also for the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. As its foundation, the encyclopedia contains the most up-to-date information on the origins and development of the Bible in the canons of Judaism and Christianity. It then documents the history of biblical interpretation and reception, not only in Christianity and Judaism, but also in Islam and other non-Western religious traditions and movements.

Moving beyond the religious realm, it further innovates by recording how biblical texts have been read, interpreted, and integrated into thought, science, and culture throughout the centuries, summarizing the most recent scholarly research on the reception of the Bible in an array of academic disciplines such as classics and archaeology as well as a wide range of cultural and humanistic fields, such as literature, visual arts, music, film, and dance. Its interdisciplinary approach thus transcends a purely theological or religious perspective.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.

Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship that includes leading academic journals across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Phillips Library has full-text access to all JSTOR archival collections, Open Access material, and numerous eBooks.

Loeb Classical Library is an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.

Newspapers.com World Collection is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional, and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.

Oxford Academic, Oxford University Press (OUP)’s platform for research, offers a single point of entry for access to scholarly and academic books and journals.

Oxford Bibliographies - Biblical Studies offers an expanding range of research guides and combines features of annotated bibliographies and high-level encyclopedia.

Oxford English Dictionary Online is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

The Oxford Handbooks Online collection is a trusted source for scholarly research reviews. Each Handbook contains in-depth, high-level articles by preeminent scholars reviewing the key issues, analyzing points of contention, and outlining arguments for advancing the discussion. Students and faculty have access to all handbooks in the Religion Collection plus any Oxford Handbook titles that are open access.

Titles included in the Religion collection cover topics such as Religious Space, the Bible and American Popular Culture, the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible, Religion and Race in American History, and much more.

ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.