Finding Articles (Adair and Pullen, 2006, revised)

This page revises the 2006 text and links of Jimmy Adair and Michael Pullen's original Nexlearn tutorial

Finding articles
There are many online sites available to help you find material for research. The sites below have been identified as helpful for your research. In NexLearn, click on the name to be taken to the resource or click on (help) beside it for some instruction in using the resource. For some of these a username and password may be required. If so, check with B.H. Carroll Institute for this information. Only faculty and currently enrolled students may be allowed access to some of these resources.


 * 1) OCLC's FirstSearch -- [online help is available, or scroll down for a short tutorial below]
 * 2) Questia -- [use their online help for assistance]
 * 3) Book.Logos.com (formerly SeminaryLibrary) -- [select their "Help on searching"link for the best introduction to their services]
 * 4) TexShare -- [may be available via your local library in Texas]
 * 5) (Primarily) Free resources links
 * see also the front page of our Bhctilibrary Wiki
 * Trouble with access? Please send comments and questions to me.

Finding Online Material: OCLC's FirstSearch
The first thing to remember about OCLC's FirstSearch is that context sensitive help is available on all screens. Look for the "question mark" symbol. Click on it to get a pop-up window with information about the current screen you are on.When you log on to FirstSearch, the screen you are presented with is similar to the one below: �

Using this page is quite simple. You can simply type any term or terms into the "Search for:" box and click "Search." For example, to search for material on "baptism" I entered that term and clicked "Search." The resulting screen was the screen below: �

This is an intermediary screen between your search and the results you want. Here you see listed the estimated number of results from each of the available databases. You can click in the box to the left of the database name (up to three of them) and then click "Select" to get results from those databases. I will select "WorldCat," "Ebooks," and "ArticleFirst" -- read the descriptions of these databases in the middle of the screen. I am then given another search screen:

This allows you to modify anything about the search before proceeding. Click on "Search" to perform the search. The results screen is provided: