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The Latourette Library catalog now has 1000 more records for e-books, 600 of which are open-access and free to anyone. For tips on finding e-books in the catalog, including those which are open-access, check out this brief tutorial for helpful search information.

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It’s National Library Week, and during this week only ProQuest is offering free access to many of its key databases, including eLibrary (a user-friendly general reference collection of full-text periodicals, newspapers, ebooks, transcripts, and digital media content) and SIRS Issues Researcher (topical pro/con coverage of current and enduring issues, including more than 300 leading issues).

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Diigo is a bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages. In addition, users can highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. Three great new Diigo tools (apps) have just been made available for Firefox – read more about this on the Diigo blog.

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Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) keeps a yearly list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning, many of which may be familiar to you but many of which may be new and useful, especially for researchers and academics.

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BIBLES AND STUDY BIBLES ONLINE, WITH HELPS:

• Greek New Testament online – use this to download all or parts of the electronic edition.  Click here to use SBL Greek fonts.
• All-in-One Biblical Resources Search (Dr. Mark Goodacre, Duke University
• My Study Bible
• Net Bible
• YouVersion.com
• Bible Study Tools at Crosswalk
• Bible Gateway
• Blue Letter Bible (Includes links to Spanish language aids.)
• Bible Study Tools Click one of the “Popular Resources” arranged by broad categories (presently in the lower right corner). It includes both Greek and Hebrew text and aids.
• The Unbound Bible (Biola)
• Bible Study Tools (Biblos) (Biblos.com is an extension of the Online Parallel Bible Project ) This site also includes hundreds of links to books from the Church Fathers to modern authors – scroll down the page.
• Study Light.org See “Study Resources” on the left.

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Calibre is an excellent open source software program that allows the user to convert a multitude of e-books into the proper format for e-readers (such as the Kindle, Nook, etc.). In addition, Calibre includes its own comprehensive e-book viewer with full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, and more. This is a tremendous tool for the researcher who has collected a digital library of e-books in a variety of formats and who needs to convert them and manage them more efficiently.

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The millions of books (in numerous languages) which have been digitized and are available online are called e-books, and there are many ways to find them. Latourette Library has added a new page to our website to help our patrons find these books easily and quickly. You will see the link to it on the library homepage, or can access the list directly by clicking here. We hope you will find this information helpful, and please feel free to contact with specific requests, questions, or suggestions for the list.

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Here is a good “one-stop” reference site to bookmark: Martindale’s The Reference Center. The quantity and quality of the information presented here is quite astounding, and it has been a work-in-progress since 1994.

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Tracking down an older newspaper article can be a frustrating experience, but the U.S. News Archives can help. Links to numerous national newspapers (current editions and archives) are provided, and if the desired results aren’t found, a helpful link to Other Sources for News is also provided.

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A great resource for theological research, The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select bibliography of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included.