Youth Ministry

The following databases and websites are good starting points for Youth Ministry research

 


Databases

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials More Information VIDEO TUTORIAL: ATLAS searching VIDEO TUTORIAL: EBSCO results
ATLA is the main online resource for researching religion and theology. 

OmniFile Full-Text Select  More Information
OmniFile is a social sciences and humanities database that only contains full-text articles.

Academic OneFile More Information VIDEO TUTORIAL: Academic OneFile searching VIDEO TUTORIAL: Academic OneFile viewing results
Academic OneFilehas the full-text of a few million of articles from all domains of knowledge.

ArticleFirst More Information 
ArticleFirst is a search interface that can link you to the articles you need. It searches descriptions of 23 million articles from all domains of learning. 

Ebrary eBooks More Information VIDEO TUTORIAL: Ebrary overview VIDEO TUTORIAL: Ebrary search VIDEO TUTORIAL: Ebrary refining results VIDEO TUTORIAL: Ebrary viewing eBooks VIDEO TUTORIAL: Ebrary reader
This search engine exclusively searches our collection of 70,000 eBooks.

Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Online More Information   VIDEO TUTORIAL: Britannica Academic Online overview VIDEO TUTORIAL: Britannica searching
This general purpose encyclopedia is a great place to begin your research and obtain the background knowledge that will make your research process go quicker.

Gale Virtual Reference Library More Information VIDEO TUTORIAL: Gale Virtual Reference Library overview VIDEO TUTORIAL: Gale Virtual Reference Library searching
Nearly 400 specialized reference eBooks on all academic subjects to dig deeper into the background information.


Websites

The Association of Religion Data Archives - This is a repository for the quantitative and qualitative data that religion researches have collected. It is made freely available as charts, graphs, and excel data sets. The data comes from Pew, Baylor, National Study of Youth and Religion, news agencies, and more.

National Study on Youth and Religion - This is the official site for the National Study of Youth and Religion a Lilly funded study focusing entirely on the religious beliefs of American youth. They present the study findings here, but the researchers have each published articles and books on the results of the study as well. The resources links are well selected.

If your research has to do with Bible or Theology then check the websites listed here. If you have youth ministry website recommendations, email them to the library and we will add them to this page.
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