Library

YOUR LIBRARY ONLINE:
AVAILABLE ANYTIME, ANY PLACE!

All currently enrolled Grace School of Theology (Grace) students have access to wonderful library resources and services. The Grace Library contains thousands of books and eBooks that are appropriate to biblical and theological study. It also contains books appropriate to life as the pastor of a church and a minister of the Gospel. Other appropriate materials are included.

YOUR LIBRARY LOGIN INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN CANVAS.

Information Literacy and Ethical Use of Information

As a Grace Student, you have automatic access to many electronic databases. It is unethical and illegal to allow anyone who is not a student, faculty member, or staff member at GRACE to use the usernames and passwords provided to GRACE students. As Christians, we are called upon to take an ethical stand on these issues. When you are off-campus, you may access the databases from home, from your phone, or any other computer Internet connection using the URL, usernames, and passwords (found in Populi and in Canvas). Access to these databases is restricted to Grace students, staff, and faculty only. Please do not share this login and password information with non-Grace students.

YOUR LIBRARY LOGIN INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN CANVAS

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Electronic Resources

The best sources for college research are books and journals. The Internet by itself is a confusing and misleading source, but professional databases can be relied on for much more reliable information. Since the advent of the Internet, e-books and journal articles can best be found in databases. Students may use password-protected databases for research needs at any time of the day or night. Full-text books and scholarly articles are available through these databases. Passwords to all proprietary databases can be found in Populi and in Canvas under Library.

Library Training Videos

The librarian has created training videos for GSOT’s electronic databases. To access these videos, go into Canvas to any class that you are taking at GRACE, look down the left-hand column of your course home page. The library login link in Canvas will guide you not only to the databases, but also to these training videos. If you have any difficulties, contact your library, or write to us at library@gsot.edu.

Library Database

Our library partners with the Digital Theological Library (DTL) to support your research and academic work.

Digital Theological Library (DTL)

The Digital Theological Library is a premier online theological research platform that brings together a wide range of high-quality academic resources in one place. Through DTL, students have access to thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks, dissertations, and other scholarly materials covering biblical studies, theology, ministry, church history, and related disciplines.

DTL integrates content from leading theological publishers and libraries worldwide, making it a reliable and comprehensive resource for both coursework and advanced research. Its user-friendly search tools allow you to easily discover, filter, and access relevant materials across multiple disciplines.

For your convenience, DTL login credentials and access links are available directly in Canvas, so you can seamlessly move between your courses and library resources.

DTL2 website | DTL2 library catalog

The Writing Center

Grace School of Theology also offers an online Writing Center that can be found in every Canvas Course. This Writing Center shows examples of Turabian format for footnotes and bibliography. There are also excellent samples of research papers which can be used as examples for writing your own papers at GRACE. The school also provides a writing tutor who will be happy to assist you with the technical details of composing and documenting your college research papers. Please use the contact information under “The Writing Center” to make an appointment with our Writing Tutor who is available in person, by email, and by telephone

How To Reach Your Librarian

Your Grace School of Theology librarian is eager to help you achieve all your educational goals. Our librarian can help you find research materials in our electronic library databases. In fact, in graduate school, many students say that the librarian is their best friend!

Olivia Grace Priest
Librarian
opriest@gsot.edu

Or write to library@gsot.edu for the Library Department.

Please be aware that library research takes time, you cannot expect to do it the night before the assignment is due. Remember the educator’s 6 P Rule: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Never wait until the last minute to get the library information help you need!

Think of the librarian as your personal research professional. The librarian is available to help with research for any papers or projects, and your other research needs. Don’t hesitate to contact him: Most librarians went into their profession because they love to help people! The Grace librarian can help you more than you can even begin to imagine – just ask!

Additional Resource Links

Directory of Open Access Journals: Free Full Text scientific and scholarly journals. Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. They aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are more than 4026 journals in the directory, and more than 1448 journals are searchable at article level. More than 271,243 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Research in Ministry (RIM):Online indexes and abstracts projects and theses from over 100 DMin and DMiss Programs.

CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion: The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. The creation of CDRI was made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation; it is now an ongoing ATLA program. The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN): The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online through our search and order system. TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies. A few of the conference paper sources are: Evangelical Theological Society (1,129 papers), American Society of Church History (150 papers),Society for Pentecostal Studies (75 papers), North American Patristic Society (20 papers), American Catholic Historical Association (14 papers), You can obtain documents from TREN in three media formats: digital, downloadable e-docs (NEW!), and paper copies are available at 15 cents per page. Low cost microfiche is available between $3 and $5 per title. Shipping and handling is $6.50 per shipment.