Services

Services for Students, Faculty, and Alumnae/i

Students

Interlibrary Loan

Visiting Other Libraries

There is a reciprocal borrowing agreement between CTU and the University of Chicago libraries. To learn more about borrowing privileges at the University of Chicago, click here.

CTU also has a reciprocal borrowing agreement with the ACTS libraries. OCLC's WorldCat catalog highlights the holdings of ACTS libraries. For more information about the ACTS libraries, click here.

Off Campus Access to the Library

For instructions about accessing e-books from off campus, please see Database Access Off Campus for more information.

Technology Tools for Research

There are a few additional tools the library provides to assist students with their research needs. A browser toolbar with a search box for library catalogs and quick links to library resources is available. A bookmarklet to search the library catalog from Amazon is also available. The library's link resolver, SFX, is registered with Google Scholar, and can also be used in conjunction with Zotero. If you have questions regarding the use of these tools, please email Lisa Gonzalez, the Electronic Resources Librarian, for more information.

Alumnae/i

The ATLAS for Alum database is available to CTU alumnae/i. This online collection contains more than one hundred forty religion and theology journals. A list of journal titles included in the collection can be found at the ATLA website. If you are a graduate of CTU and would like to use the ATLAS for Alum database, click here to login. Please contact us to receive the username and password information.

The library also provides access to JSTOR for CTU graduates. JSTOR is a collection of online full text scholarly journals; the library's JSTOR collection focuses on theology, religion and the humanities. Please contact us for information on how to access this collection.

Faculty

Adding library articles to Moodle

If the library subscribes to a database that includes full text you would like your students to read, you can add a link to the article in Moodle, just as you would a link to a website. The URL for this link is often referred to as a stable URL, a durable URL, or a persistent link. The basic idea behind all these terms is that the link goes directly to a particular article.

Copying a link from your browser will not provide consistent results, since the link you see in your browser when you are viewing a particular article may represent that particular search session, rather than the article itself. In order to be sure you are using the right link, you will need to identify the stable URL for articles that come from different databases. You will also need to use URLs that begin with CTU’s EZProxy server address, http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=, so that both on campus and off campus users can access the article consistently. Below are examples from the most popular databases.

Using EZProxy - Article examples from different databases

Ebsco (ATLA, CPLI, etc.)
http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=vah&AN=CPLI0000465977&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Gale Virtual Library
http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|CX3407709788&v=2.1&u=chic95518&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w

JSTOR
http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1465248

Peeters Journals
http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=2030895&journal_code=ETL