Course Number: TH503F Subject: Theological Education  contact Greg Sennema to set up an appointment: gsennema@wlu.ca Library instruction student survey (anonymous feedback) Omni introduction Omni Library search is the Laurier Library's centralized search interface. It includes: books and ebooks from Laurierand 17 other Ontario University Libraries articles (online) audio and video (physical and online) more (government documents, reports) View one of our Omni video tutorials to learn more When you find an item in Omni, you can either view it online if it is digital find the call number and locate it on the shelves in the library request a chapter via Scan on Demand request an item from another library Tutorial: Use Omni to locate known items. e.g., Sikka, S., & Peetush, A. (2021). Asian philosophies and the idea of religion: beyond faith and reason. Routledge. Oxford Bibliographies Oxford Bibliographies are created by scholars and librarians worldwide across a variety of subject areas, and combine "the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia." Some of the bibliographies relevant to this course include: Buddhist Philosophy Chinese Philosophy Confucius Daoism and Philosophy Hinduism (multiple) Indian Philosophy Japanese Philosophy Very Short Introductions Oxford's Very Short Introductions offer concise and readable introductions to a wide range of subject written by subject experts. Some of the VSI titles relevant to this course include: Buddhism Buddhist Ethics Confucianism Indian Philosophy Sikhism Encyclopedias and Handbooks Start here: Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy The following links lead to Omni search results of reference materials (encyclopedia, handbooks, etc) Asian philosophy and religion Buddhism Confucianism Daoism Hindusim Islam Jainism Sikhism None of these searches yield perfect results, and sometimes seemingly unrelated items appear in the results list. Books (and more) Omni On a results page, choose "Books and eBooks" as resource type eBook collections An Omni search locates items if your search terms are in the author, title, subject, etc. fields. Search one of the following eBook collections Full text access to a wide range of scholarly journals. Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an article. Proquest Ebook Central EBSCO eBook Academic And more... On the left side of Omni results, note the other types of resources. In particular: audio video Articles Omni On a results page, choose "Articles" as resource type A wide range of journal articles...sometimes too wide with too many results. Atla Religion Database index for materials on subjects related to religion and theology. Bibliography of Asian Studies Index for western-language materials on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. NOTE: many of the referenced items will need to be requested through interlibrary loan JSTOR Full text access to a wide range of scholarly journals. Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an article. Also includes some images from ArtSTOR. Dissertations & Theses ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an theses. Great source of bibliographic material. APA tips Religious Work References (APA) Â