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“Catholic Central” offers entertaining and authoritative answers to your questions about Catholic thought, spirituality and practice.
Eureka St is a publication of the Australian Jesuits and is informed by the values of Jesuit spirituality and in particular the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
New Internationalist is an independent monthly not-for-profit magazine that reports on action for global justice. We also subscribe to the print edition available in the library.
Catholic Social Teaching is a livesimply initiative, a network of 60+ charities who support the radical idea that God calls us to look hard at our lifestyles and live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with poor people at home and overseas.
The Tablet is a Catholic weekly journal that reports on religion current affairs, politics, social issues, literature and the arts.
Research is a process with many steps, and is rarely linear. A good researcher uses multiple sources and continually goes back and reviews their question and keeps adding new vocabulary and learning to their search. This Libguide has been created to provide support for your research tasks in Religion
For some research tasks books are still a good source of information. Unlike novels we generally do not read non-fiction books from cover to cover so it is important to understand how to use a book more effectively for your research.
| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Appears at the front of a book and gives a list of the chapters or sections in a book, The table of contents may give a general idea of the topics covered in the book. |
| PREFACE / FOREWORD / INTRODUCTION |
If there is one it is located after the contents, and may provide you with ideas about the author's intention or purpose for writing the book. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Is a list of materials related to a specific topic. The list may be items that were used as reference for the work they accompany, or it may be a list of additional materials on the topic. Bibliographies are usually located at the ends of chapters or at the end of the book. |
| INDEX |
Is usually located in the back of the book and is an alphabetical list of the specific subjects in the book, with the corresponding page numbers. An index can also provide subject terms and keywords that might be useful for further research on a topic. |
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The following PREMIUM DIGITAL RESOURCES may be useful for research in this subject. However, they are password protected and when you click on any of the icons below you will be re-directed to the search page that requires authentication. You can then click on the database you need. The following databases are recommended for this topic
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You can use Oliver to find books in the library however sometimes it is helpful to know the Dewey numbers for a subject. In doing so you will be able to find books on that subject in most libraries. It will also be useful at those times when you know the topic but don't know where to start looking.
Note that resources about specific events will be located within the Dewey division for the country where the event took place.
| 200 | Religion |
| 210 | Philosophy & theory of religion |
| 220 | The Bible |
| 230 | Christianity & Christian theology |
| 240 | Christian practice & observance |
| 250 | Christian pastoral practice & religious orders |
| 260 | Christian organization, social work & worship |
| 270 | History of Christianity |
| 280 | Christian denominations |
| 290 | Other religions |
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The Referencing Libguide has resources on how to cite/reference sources in research.
The Online Reference Generator allows you to create citations and bibliographies using the Harvard Referencing Style for a comprehensive list of resources.
MyBib is a free online service that allows users to generate citations and bibliographies. You can paste in a DOI, ISBN or URL and have the fields populate automatically. However it does not always provide the correct reference so you must check that all possible parts of the reference have been included. |
