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As a King's student, you have access to thousands of e-books, which can be accessed 24/7 and don't require you to come into the library. This guide below provides information about the various databases.
Below are sample searches in eBook Academic Collection. If you click on the links, the searches will open, and you can browse the collections.
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Scholarly books disseminate research and academic discussion among professionals within disciplines. They are intended for academic study and research, and are preferred when writing college-level papers. They are published by academic or university presses.
Adapted from University of Toronto Libraries.
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These clues will go a long way towards assisting you in differentiating between books intended for the scholar and therefore, preferred when writing research papers, from trade publications or mass market publications that are intended for a general audience.
Publisher: A good clue to a scholarly resource is its publisher.
Books from publishers specializing in the field will tend to be of better quality textually then those that don’t.
Cited References and Bibliography – Even more than a useful tool for evaluating the reliability of an author, cited references are an excellent indication of the scholarship of a work.
Content – examine these aspects of the work to assist in ascertaining the scholarship of a work:
Graphics, Charts, Illustrations, etc.: many scholarly works will have graphs, charts, illustrations, etc.
© Janet Tillman/The Master’s University, 2008-2014, permission is granted for non-profit educational use; any reproduction or modification should include this statement.
Call Number: BL 65 P7 C2213 2018
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State by John C. Caiazza
Call Number: BL 65 V55 C35 2018
Religious Epistemology by Tyler Dalton McNabb
Call Number: BL 51 M479 2019
What Is Religion? by Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Call Number: BL 48 J45 2020
Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography by Maren R. Niehoff
Call Number: B 689 Z7 N54 2018
Emancipatory Thinking: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought by Elaine Stavro
Call Number: B 2430 B344 S73 2018
Embodiment and the Meaning of Life by Jeff Noonan
Call Number: BD 431 N66 2018
Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx's Theory of Exploitation by Ernesto Screpanti
Call Number: BJ 1474.5 S37 2019
Call Number: BL 72 M772 2017
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion by Charles Taliaferro (Editor); Elsa J. Marty (Editor)
Call Number: BL 51 D514 2018