The Library maintains an extensive collection of electronic research materials and instruments. Many of these are described briefly below.

User's guides or manuals for some of these materials may be found in the Reference Room or at the Circulation Desk. Operating some of the software programs requires borrowing a CD-ROM data disc from the Circulation Desk; please see the record for each work in our online catalog, or ask for reference assistance.

RR = Reference Room (Computer 1 and 2)
CL = Computer Lab on lower level

Important Library Websites

http://library.union-psce.edu connects you with our staff members, offers access to our online catalog and electronic resources (including major databases and over 250 full-text religious studies journals), and posts our news and announcements
http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome offers extensive self-guided text and video tutorials designed to teach you to use our Library's online catalog and several religion databases
http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/manual provides our full Orientation Manual, with detailed information about all aspects of the library, including important rules and policy outlines

Our Online Library Catalog provides access to the entire collection of over 400,000 items of all formats in the William Smith Morton Library. You will find terminals dedicated to the catalog in the Atrium, in the RR, and on all stacks levels.

ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. ATLA-RDB online also provides full-text access to a digital collection of more than 80 major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page. It is accessible online through any internet-capable computer. Any patron within the Library may use it, and authorized persons (faculty, students and staff) may access it remotely through the internet with valid user ID and password. User's guides on paper are found in the RR; online Tutorials are also available.

ATLAS for Alumni : The Library can now make the electronic full-text contents of more than 80 of the most-used theological journals available to Union-PSCE alumni/ae, including more than 153,000 articles and reviews. The ATLAS site includes a simple search interface, and a help file explaining how to use it. There is also a titles list showing the journals that are included. To access the ATLAS for Alumni site, click HERE. To receive the user account name and password, please contact the Reference Librarian.

Bible Windows : Analytical Greek NT and Hebrew OT (BHS) and Septuagint with grammatical tags and dictionary forms coded in the text. English translations, lexicons, the Silver classical library (Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Tacitus, Thucydides in translation), Early Church Fathers, Josephus. On RR1 and RR2 (no data disc required).

BibleWorks 7.0 : A greatly expanded and updated version of the electronic exegesis tool BibleWorks is now available on several computers in the Reference Room and downstairs in the computer lab. This complex and powerful program contains the searchable Greek and Hebrew texts of Scripture in several different versions, the Septuagint, Tanakh, Peshitta and Targumim, scores of Bible translations into European languages, the full contents of several important lexicons (such as Bauer-Danker-Arndt-Gingrich and Brown-Driver-Briggs), Metzger's textual commentary, several grammars, and many related texts from the Greek apostolic fathers, Philo, Josephus, etc. (For a fuller description see http://www.bibleworks.com.) The program includes very extensive online help files and a "Getting Started" guide -- even animated help video tutorials with sound. Please bring your own headphones to the Library to listen to the video guides.

Biblical World in Pictures : "More than 1,300 photographs of Bible sites, archaeological remains, maps, artifacts, inscriptions, ancient manuscripts, and breathtaking vistas. The Biblical context of each image is explained in extensive captions written by world-renowned scholars." On RR1, under Libronix (no data disc required).

Book of Common Worship : "2000 software edition contains the full text of the standard cloth edition of the Book of Common Worship as well as material for use in planning and leading worship and resources for the seasons and festivals in the liturgical calendar. Notes and highlights can be added to the text and edited for formatting in word processing applications." On RR1 (no disc required).

Book of Confessions : searchable and downloadable versions are available online at the PCUSA website, http://pcusa.org/oga/constitution.htm.

Book of Order : searchable and downloadable versions are available online at the PCUSA website, http://pcusa.org/oga/constitution.htm. There is also an Annotated Version available that includes jump links to Permanent Judicial Commission Decisions 1983-2005, the advice of the Advisory Committee on the Constitution 1984-2004, General Assembly authoritative interpretations, and Earlier References (citations from predecessor churches). This Annotated Version is on RR1, RR2 and several computers in the CL.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index provides a detailed reference resource for in-depth research into Catholicism and related subject areas. The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.

Coptic Workplace : Includes the Coptic New Testament and Nag Hammadi texts; a subset of PHI 7. On RR1 and RR2; requires CD-ROM 49 from the Circ Desk.

Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library : "Comprehensive collection of reference materials on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related areas of interest including digitized images of the scrolls, transcriptions, translations, and associated literature." On RR1; requires CD-ROM 8 from Circ Desk.

Digital Karl Barth Library : A comprehensive, searchable database of the works of theologian Karl Barth in German. A refined search interface allows you to locate specific terms or passages in Die kirchliche Dogmatik or the first 36 volumes of his Gesamtausgabe, including hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures and articles. Some treatises and personal papers are also available on the site in English translation (more in English is to be added soon). To access this resource online, click HERE.

Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica : "A selection of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates). Users manuals by Rudolf Schieffer, in English and German, numbered in opposite directions." Requires CD-ROM 13 from the Circulation Desk; use on RR1 or RR2; requires CD-ROM 13 from the Circ Desk.

Elenchus Bibliographicus : A research bibliography for biblical and theological studies, produced in conjunction with the periodical Ephemerides Theologicae Lovianenses, edited by the Faculteit Godgeleerdheid (KU Leuven) and the Faculté de Théologie UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve). To access this resource online, click HERE.

Encarta Africana : Multimedia resource for the history, achievement and culture of African peoples from Africa to North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, written and edited by foremost scholars in the field. Includes a wealth of beautiful illustrations and maps, and many music and sound recordings. To listen to the recordings, please bring headphones. On RR2.

Encyclopedia of Religion : Electronic version of the classic reference published in hard copy (16 v.) by Macmillan in 1987. On RR1 and RR2 (no disc required).

Evans Digital : the online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes searchable scanned images of "the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as augmented by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This set has long served as a major resource for research involving early American history, literature, religion, philosophy, and more." To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page. Available to all users within the Library, and remotely through the internet with valid user ID and password.

FirstSearch : Valuable collections of reference information are provided by OCLC using the FirstSearch interface. Among these are WorldCat, ArticleFirst and Wilson Select Plus. To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page. When the program opens, you can select the database you want from a drop-down menu or the Databases tab.

Greek Tutor : "Teaches biblical Greek at the user's pace; designed for new students as well as those who have had some Greek in the past and need a refresher. Includes 28 lessons, with drills, exercises and review screens, texts, charts, graphs and bibliographies." Requires CD-ROM 1 1999 from the Circulation Desk; use on RR2.

Hebrew Tutor : "Teaches biblical Hebrew at the user's pace; includes 14 lessons, with drills, exercises and review screens, texts, charts, graphs, bibliographies" and other features. Requires CD-ROM 2 1998 from the Circulation Desk; use on RR2.

Index Islamicus : (6th ed.) an international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers the main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslims living elsewhere - just under a fifth of the world’s total population - and their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. It includes materials published since 1906 by Western orientalists and social scientists and by Muslims writing in European languages. Journal articles, books and reviews as well as all essays and papers contained in multi-author volumes are recorded, classified and indexed. This release of the Index Islamicus on CD-ROM adds Yearbooks for 2001 and 2002, as well as a number of 2003 publications. Also, special attention has been given to publications on Iraq. On RR2 (no disc required).

Index Theologicus : an index to more than 600 periodicals in theology, Festschriften, and conference proceedings, produced by the Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen. A search interface in English is provided. For free access on the web, click HERE.

International Philosophical Bibliography : the Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie / Bibliografisch Repertorium van de Wijsbegeerte, edited by the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie (Louvain-le-Neuve) and Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (Leuven). To access this resource online, click HERE.

Islamic Scholar : Includes three major Qur'an translations, a complete Arabic recitation of the Qur'an, selections from the Hadith, history of the Prophets, letters and treaties of Muhammad and other materials. Requires CD-ROM 12 from the Circulation Desk; use on RR2. To listen to the recitation, please bring headphones.

Luther's Works : "This CD-ROM makes available the entire 55-volume set of Luther's Works, a magisterial translation project published jointly by Fortress Press and Concordia Publishing House in 1957." On RR1 under Libronix (no disc required).

Microsoft Word and other Office applications are available in the CL. Please do not use computers in the RR for word processing or email.

New Testament Abstracts : "a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion.  In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985." To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.

Old Testament Abstracts : "produced by ATLA in partnership with the Catholic Biblical Association. All abstracts are in English regardless of the language of the original work. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from more than 450 journals is covered. Topics include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, and philology. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978." To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. The Morton Library subscribes to the Humanities and Social Science subset of this database. To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.

PHI 5 Workplace (Packard Humanities Institute, Latin Texts) : "Latin literature from its beginnings to 200 AD, plus Justinian's Digest, Servius' Commentaries on Virgil, and Porphyry's Commentary on Horace. Several Bible versions in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Coptic." On RR1 and RR2; requires CD-ROM 48 from the Circ Desk.

PHI 7 Workplace (Packard Humanities Institute, Greek Texts) : "Ancient Greek inscriptions, as compiled thus far by the Greek Epigraphy Project at Cornell, including inscriptions from Attica, Delos, Peleponnesos, Central Greece, Delphi, Crete, Ionia, Caria; also Christian inscriptions from the Mediterranean. Greek Papyri from the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri. Coptic literary texts: the Coptic New Testament; Nag Hammadi writings." On RR1 and RR2; requires CD-ROM 49 from the Circ Desk.

Presbyterian Hymnal : "Users of this software can search for hymns by first line, common title, tune name, subject, keyword, scriptural reference, meter, author, translator, composer, arranger, and scripture reference from The Revised Common Lectionary. Hymns may be viewed with both text and music, or with text alone. Users can hear one stanza of the musical accompaniment played on piano. This software includes complete versions of The Presbyterian Hymnal, The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, and The Presbyterian Hymnal: Complete Concordance and Indexes. Use on RR1; requires CD-ROM 5 from the Circ Desk.

Religious and Theological Abstracts provides bibliographic citations and detailed summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology. It includes a wide variety of periodical literature pertaining to Christianity, Judaism and other world religions, and supplies English-language abstracts or summaries of articles appearing in other languages. To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.

Stated Clerks Handbook is produced by staff in the Office of the General Assembly with extensive input from the staffs of several General Assembly Council Units. It is a manual for stated clerks, executives or other governing body staff with administrative responsibilities. The searchable elecronic version is on RR1, RR2 and several machines in the CL.

TLG Workplace (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) : "a databank of electronic texts on CD-ROM, comprising the entire corpus of extant Greek literary texts from Homer (8th century B.C.E.) to the sixth century C.E., as well as a selection of historiographical, lexicographical, and scholastic texts from the Byzantine period. Approximately 3000 authors are represented, in over 8000 works and fragments." On RR1 and RR2; requires CD-ROM 44 from the Circ Desk.

World of Islam : "Provides resources for understanding Islam and Christian life and witness in Muslim contexts. Includes the full texts of 45 books and articles, survey of Islam, seven basic educational courses on Islam, maps, photographs and an annotated bibliography. Includes examples of music. On RR1; requires CD-ROM 27 from the Circ Desk.