The following open online resources are provided to assist students of City Vision University with their research.

• LIRN, ProQuest and Gale Libraries
• Free and Open Business Libraries
• Free Business eBooks
• Search Tools
• Writing Resources
• Grant Research
• General Research Libraries / Databases
• Theological Resources
• Online Theological Journals
• Online Nonprofit Management Journals
• City Vision’s Wiki Libraries
• Christian Ministries and Volunteer Organizations

If you have any questions about these resources or about City Vision’s library services in general, email librarian@cityvision.edu.

LIRN: Proquest & Gale Libraries for Business and Other Research

Proquest provides one of the most widely used for-fee subscription research libraries for university students. All City Vision students have access to the following databases.

• ProQuest Business Library
• ProQuest Core
• ProQuest EBook Central: Academic Complete
• Other Proquest Libraries
• Statistica. Provides one of the most widely used sources for statistics on the Internet.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

To access these databases, go to https://proxy.lirn.net/CityVisionUniv .

Existing students, click here to get the username and password.

If you want to learn about how to use these databases effectively, you can watch the relevant videos from LIRN’s “Starting Your Research” playlist.

Writing Resources

• APA Style Guide: http://www.apastyle.org   

• The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

  The Purdue OWL is one of the best resources on academic writing. It contains extensive information on citing sources, grammar, and academic writing style. Highly recommended.

• Citation Machine: http://www.citationmachine.net/

  The Citation Machine is a web service that can generate citations for various sources in academic citation formats such as MLA and APA. It is especially useful for automatically generating citations for Web pages.

Grant Research

• Foundation Center: http://www.foundationcenter.org/

• ChristianVolunteering Foundation Directory: http://www.christianvolunteering.org/foundationgrants.jsp

• GrantStation: http://www.grantstation.com/public/Partner_px/gs_instruct.asp

• Christian Foundation Grants: http://www.christianfoundationgrants.com

• Guidestar: www.guidestar.org

• National Center for Charitable Statistics: http://nccs.urban.org

General Research Libraries

• JSTOR. http://about.jstor.org/rr

  JSTOR is a repository of academic journals. It has a free option where individuals are given access to all of its holdings, but limits the number of articles one can read. You may be able to get full free online access from your local library, if you have a library card.

• Open Access Journals:

  • http://doaj.org

    The largest directory of open access journals. Includes journals in the health sciences and social sciences.

  • http://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site

• The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/

  Not only does the Internet Archive have a vast archive of Web pages, it contains a great deal of free content, including public domain material, like books from Project Gutenberg.

• Additionally, note that many public libraries provide access to academic databases, such as JSTOR and EBSCO, to any patrons who have a library card.

Theological Resources

• Our Christian Ministry & Leadership program compiled the full list of Internet Tools for Church Leaders.

• Bible Hub is an online Bible study suite,  featuring topical, Greek, and Hebrew study tools, plus concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, sermons, and devotionals. Click here to access.

• GlobeTheoLib (GTL) was launched in 2011 by Globethics.net and offers free access to over 200,000 texts, documents, articles and other resources for academic study. Its focus is “intercultural theology and ecumenism, including contextual theologies, world mission and missiology, gender and theology, interreligious dialogue, theological education, and World Christianity.” Once registered (registration is free), access is given to not only full text documents, but also journals, reference books and eBooks. Click here to access the GTL and register online.

• Dictionary of Theology: This free access online dictionary is a reference tool provided by the Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry. New entries are regularly added. Click here to access this online website that is freely available for reading of the Bible and also researching Scripture.

• This Online Christian Library of Theological resources is provided through the Christian Online Referral Services Library Project of Northwestern Theological Seminary and Northwestern Christian University. Open access is provided to research tools, reference books, religious resources and periodicals, world newspapers and other access points, many in full text or PDF format.
  Click here to access this online website that is freely available for reading of the Bible and also researching Scripture.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: This is an open-access database, maintained by Stanford University, which contains hundreds of articles on philosophical theory, biographies of key philosophers, and topics in philosophy.
  Click here to access the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Click here to access this collection of classic Christian writings that are in the public domain.

• Christian Periodical Index This is a list of full text periodicals that are available from Publishers’ websites. Click here to access the CPI.

• Christian Standard Subject Index, 1967-1993
  This index provides information on articles published in the Christian Standard by author, title, and subject. It was compiled by the staff of the Jessie C. Eury Library of Lincoln Christian College and edited by Nancy J. Olson and covers the years 1967 through 1993.
  Click here to access the CSSI.

• The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) has a collection of 10,000 plus theses and dissertations, and also conference papers, which can be searched and ordered online in one of three formats – downloadable edocs; paper copies; or microfiche.
  Click here to access the TREN.

• BibleTraining.org has free Bible lectures. Click here to access the Bibletraining.org.

Online Theological Journals

• Abstracta : Linguagem, Mente e Ação (English, Portugese): http://www.abstracta.pro.br/

• A.D. 2000: http://www.ad2000.com.au/

• Adoremus Bulletin: http://www.adoremus.org/0905TOC.html

• Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal: http://advancingwomen.com/awl/awl_wordpress/

• Adventist Today: http://www.atoday.org/article.php?id=668

• Affirmation & Critique: http://www.affcrit.com/

• African Arts (some recent years): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0438

• African Studies Quarterly: http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq

• Aggiornamento: http://www.udallas.edu/irps/agg/

• Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums: http://www.compactmemory.de/

• Alliance Life: www.alliancelife.org/archives.php

• Al-Tawhid: A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought & Culture: http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/

• Altneuland: http://www.compactmemory.de/

• American Historical Review: http://www.historycooperative.org/ahrindex.html

• American Indian Quarterly: http://www.questia.com/library/jp-american-indian- quarterly.jsp?CRID=jp_american_indian_quarterly&OFFID=se1jp&gclid=CI2ax_3e3KsCFRM6gwodTzkmTw

• American Jewish Archives Journal: http://americanjewisharchives.org/journal/   

• American Journal of Archaeology: http://www.ajaonline.org/

• American Journal of Biblical Theology: http://www.biblicaltheology.com/

• The American Missionary (1878- 1901): http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.journals/amis.html

• American Monastic Newsletter: http://www.osb.org/aba/news/index.html

• American Theological Inquiry: http://www.atijournal.org/

• Anglican Journal: http://www.anglicanjournal.com/

• Anglican Mission in the Americas: http://www.theamia.org/resources/download-docs/

• Anglican Theological Review: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818

• Animus: A Philosophical Journal for our Time: http://www.swgc.mun.ca/animus/

• Annali del Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Università di Firenze (Italian, English): http://www.fupress.com/index.asp

• Annual of Urdu Studies: http://www.urdustudies.com/

• Anpere: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion: http://www.anpere.net/

• Answers in Genesis: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/daily-articles

• Antiquity (Abstracts free; pay for articles): http://antiquity.ac.uk/index.html

• Antithesis: http://www.reformed.org/webfiles/antithesis/index.html

• Aposta. Revista de ciencias sociales (Spanish): http://www.apostadigital.com/

• Arab Studies Quarterly: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501

• (some recent years)

• Arachnion: http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html

• Ariel: Israel Review of Arts and letters: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/20 03/5/ARIEL%20-%20The%20Israel%20Review%20of%20Arts%20and% 20Letters

• ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI , and SPARC: http://www.arl.org

• Ars Disputandi: Online journal for Philosophy of Religion (English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian): http://www.arsdisputandi.org/

• Asian Arts: http://www.asianart.com/

• Asian Folklore Studies: http://www.questia.com/browselibrary/journalIssues.jsp?r=5002065857

• Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies: http://www.apts.edu/ajps/

• ASOR Newsletter (some issues): http://www.asor.org/pubs/news/index.html

• Asterion (French): http://asterion.revues.org/

• @thispoint: http://www.atthispoint.net/

• Les ateliers de l’éthique (English, French) See also Les Ateliers…: http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/spip.php?rubrique64

• Australasian Journal of Logic: http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/ajl/index.html

• Australian Biblical Review: http://www.fbs.org.au/abrreviews.html

• Australian E-Journal of Theology: http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal

• Axis Mundi: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/axismundi/

• AzureOnline: http://www.azure.org.il/

• (English, Hebrew) Baptist History & Heritage: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXG

• Bible and Interpretation: http://www.bibleinterp.com

• Bible Translation Resources — United Bible Societies: http://www.ubs-translations.org

• Biblica Online: http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/

• Biblical Studies on the Web: http://www.bsw.org/index?l=10

• Biblical Reflections on Modern Medicine (1994- 2000): http://www.bmei.org/brmm/index.php

• Biblical Theology Bulletin: http://btb.sagepub.com/

• BMC International Health and Human Rights: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcinthealthhumrights/

• BMC Medical Ethics: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedethics/

• Books & Culture: A Christian Review: http://www.booksandculture.com/

• Boston Catholic Journa:l http://www.boston-catholic-journal.com/

• MHS School of Mission and Theology: http://www.mhs.no/article_533.shtml

• British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba.html

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/

• BSW Journal (Biblical Studies on the Web): http://www.bsw.org/?l=10

• Buddhazine: BuddhaNet’s Online Magazine: http://www.buddhanet.net/budzine.htm

• Bulletin d’Analyse Phénoménologique (French): http://popups.ulg.ac.be/bap.htm

• Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa: http://www.mhs.no/article_204.shtml

• Bulletin of the Boston Theological Institute: http://www.bostontheological.org/publications/

• Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture: http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/welcome.htm

• The Burning Bush (Theological Journal of the Far Eastern Bible College): http://www.febc.edu.sg/burningbush.htm

• Campus Life: http://www.christianitytoday.com/teens

• Canadian Jewish News: http://www.cjnews.com/

• Canadian Journal of Native Studies (1981-1996): http://www.brandonu.ca/Library/CJNS/Online_Issues/o nline_issues.htm

• The Canadian Journal of Orthodox Christianity: http://www.cjoc.ca/

• Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Bulletin: http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/Bulletin.html

• Women of Grace: http://www.womenofgrace.com/en-us/default.aspx

• Catholic League: http://www.catholicleague.org/

• Catholic Culture Library (anthology): http://www.catholicculture.org/index.cfm

• Catholic New Times (some recent years): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY

• Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture: http://www.onr.com/user/cat/csw/index.html

• The Catholic World 1865-1901: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/c

• ath.html?sid=77dffc0ceca7d5d3d76fa6a0c3ae1185

• Catoblepas : Revista crítica del present (Spanish): http://www.nodulo.org/ec/

• CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) Journal (selected articles): http://ccarnet.org/publications/journal/

• Centro Pro Unione Bulletin: http://www.prounione.urbe.it/att-act/e_bulletin_fr.html

• CTS Journal: http://www.chafer.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=41

• Chinese Theological Review: http://www.christianityinchina.org/Common/Admin/showFP_auto.jsp?Pid=7&Version=1&Charset=big5

• Charisma and Christian Life: http://www.charismamag.com/

• Christian Business Faculty Association Newsletter: http://www.cbfa.org/html/cbfa_newsletter.html

• Christian Computing Magazine: http://cdpublishers.wix.com/ccmag

• The Christian Courier: http://www.christiancourier.com/

• Christian Ethics Today: http://www.christianethicstoday.com/wp/

• Christian History: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch

• Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture: http://www.churchhistory.org/

• Christian Mystics: http://www.christianmystics.com/

• Christian News Online: http://christiannewsonline.com/

• Christian Parenting Today: http://www.kyria.com/topics/marriagefamily/parenting/

• Christian Post: http://www.christianpost.com/

• Christian Research Journal: http://www.equip.org/journal/

• Christian Social Action: http://www.umc-gbcs.org/csamagazine/index.php

• Christian Veterinary Journal: http://www.christianvetmission.org/

• Christianity Today: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/

• Church & Society in Asia Today: http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/CS/CS.htm#Anchor-200-33035

• Church & State (some recent years): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944

• Church History: Studies in:  http://www.churchhistory.org/church-history-journal/

• Churchman (some articles): www.churchsociety.org/churchman/index.htm

• Cinta de Moebio: revista electronica de pistemologia de ciencias sociales (Spanish): http://www.facso.uchile.cl/

• Focus on the Family: http:/www.focusonthefamily.com/

• LC Journal of Theology: http://clclutheran.org/library/jt_arch.html

• Colloquia Maruliana (Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish): http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=casopis&id_casopi s=43

• Commentary: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/

• Common Ground Journal: http://www.commongroundjournal.org/

• Commonweal (some recent years): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252

• Communique: An Online Literary and Arts Journal: http://www.communiquejournal.org/archives.html

• CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal: http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/

• Compass: A Jesuit Journal: http://gvanv.com/compass/comphome.html

• Concordia Journal: http://www.csl.edu/resources/publications/concordia-journal/

• Concordia Theological Quarterly: http://www.ctsfw.edu/ctq/

• Concrescence: The Australasian Journal for Process Thought: http://concrescence.org/

• Conflict and Health: http://www.conflictandhealth.com/

• Contemporary Aesthetics: http://www.contempaesthetics.org/

• Contra Mundum – A Reformed, Calvinistic journal: http://www.contra-mundum.org/

• Conservative Online: http://www.conservativeonline.org/journals.html

• Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy: http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal

• Covenant Theological Seminary Resources: http://www.resourcesforlifeonline.com

• Creator (Music): www.creatormagazine.com/

• CRSQ: Creation Research Society Quarterly: http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles_chron.htm

• Credenda Agenda: http://www.credenda.org/back_issues.php

• Crisis Magazine: http://www.crisismagazine.com/

• Cross Currents : The Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life: http://www.aril.org/ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096

• Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology: http://crossings.tcd.ie/

• Cultura : International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology ( English, French, Italian, German): http://www.international-journal-of-axiology.net/

• Cultural Analysis: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/

• Currents in Theology and Mission (some recent years): http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MDO

• Currículo sem Fronteiras (Curriculum without Borders (Portuguese): http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/

• Cyberjournal for Pentecostal – Charismatic Research: http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/

• Daena: International Journal of Good Conscience (Spanish): http://www.daenajournal.org/

• Decision Magazine: http://www.billygraham.org/dmag_current.asp

• Denver Journal – An Online Review of Current Biblical and Theological Studies: http://www.denverseminary.edu/dj/index.php

• Denver Seminary Magazine: http://www.denverseminary.edu/magazine/

• Der Jude: http://www.compactmemory.de/

• Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal: http://www.dbts.edu/journals/index.asp#table

• Diametros : An Online Journal of Philosophy (Polish, English): http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/?l=1

• Die Freistatt: http://www.compactmemory.de/

• Die Welt: http://www.compactmemory.de/

• DIOTIME (French): http://www.educ-revues.fr/diotime/

• Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum: http://www.directionjournal.org/

• Discipleship Journal: www.navpress.com/DJ

• DISKUS: Journal of British Association for the Study of Religions: http://www.basr.ac.uk/diskus/

• Disputatio (English, Portugese): http://disputatio.com/

• E-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie (German, English): http://www.jp.philo.at/

• E-topia (Portugese): http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id05id164& sum=sim

• East Asian Pastoral Review: http://eapi.admu.edu.ph/content/east-asian-pastoral-review

• East-West Church & Ministry Report: http://www.eastwestreport.org/

• Ecumenical News International: http://www.eni.ch/

• Ecumenical Review: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2065/

• Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy: http://ejap.louisiana.edu/archives.html

• Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies: http://ejbo.jyu.fi/

• Electronic Journal of Folklore: http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/

• Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education: http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/

• Encounter: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4044

• Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry: http://www.agts.edu/encounter/index.htm

• Encounters Mission Journal: http://www.redcliffe.org/SpecialistCentres/EncountersMissionJournal

• EnlightenNext Magazine: http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/current/

• Enrahonar : Quaderns de Filosofia (Spanish, English, French, Catalan): http://ddd.uab.cat/record/17

• Environmental Archaeology: http://www.envarch.net/publications/envarch/index.html

• Eras Journal: http://arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-12-issue-2/index.php

• Esoterica: http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Contents.html

• EspacesTemps.net ( French, English, Spanish, German, Italian): http://www.espacestemps.net/

• eSpirita (See also Spirita): http://www.spirita.de/

Online Nonprofit Management Journals

• Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

• Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

• International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing

• Nonprofit Management & Leadership

• Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing

• Third Sector Review

• Nonprofit Policy Forum

• Chronicle of Philanthropy

• Board Leadership

• Nonprofit World

• Nonprofit Times

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

• Leading Nonprofit Organizations

City Vision’s Wiki Libraries

• Encyclopedia of Christian Technology and Social Entrepreneurship

• Recovery and Addiction Encyclopedia

• Encyclopedia of Urban Ministry

• Nonprofit and Volunteer Management Wiki Encyclopedia

• Urban Youth Ministry Curriculum & Encyclopedia

• City Vision’s YouTube Channel