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Searches all of the following resources plus the Northern Seminary Library online catalog. Click here for more information about Search Everything or search a single database by clicking on one of the following database titles.

Find Full Text Titles

Search by a book title or a journal title to find out if that title is available as online full text in any Northern Seminary database.

Academic Search Complete

Resources from over 17,000 academic journals; most are full text

Atla Monographs (1893-1922)

Over 14,000 full text late-18th century and early-19th century religious and theological texts

ATLAS Plus

Full text from over 480 theological journals with indexing of an additional 1,800 journals

BAS Archive (Biblical Archaeology Society)

Full online archives of Biblical Archaeology Review, Bible Review, and Archaeology Odyssey.

Black Thought & Culture

1,200+ biographical and historical sources from 1841-2006

Bloomsbury Collections

Over 35 full text T&T Clark Library of NT Studies titles along with keyword searching of over 6,000 academic titles

Counseling & Therapy Videos

1,100 instructional and case study videos

EBSCO eBook Collection

Over 9,000 academic religion and theology e-books plus 4,000 general interest titles.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

More than 800,000 freely available full text dissertations from colleges and universities around the world

GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

23 online reference resources, including Encyclopaedia Judaica and New Catholic Encyclopedia

Historical Statistics of the US

Detailed national statistics and demographics from Colonial times through 2000

JSTOR

Over 450 full text academic journals and over 5,000 open access academic e-books. March 2020: JSTOR is providing free access to 25,000+ academic titles during the Covid19 crisis.

Project MUSE

200+ humanities journals, including several select religion & theology titles, plus over 1,300 open access academic e-books.

ProQuest Ebook Central

Over 4,000 e-books with a growing number of theology and biblical studies titles

SAGE Journals Online

15 core biblical studies and theology journals plus back issues for over 300 academic journals through 1998

TREN Theses & Papers

TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network) provides full text DMin theses and conference papers

Women & Social Movements

Over 6,000 sources covering the social history of women in the US from 1600-2000

WorldCat

Search for books in libraries world wide and use the ILL link to request books from other libraries

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