Find out how to borrow items from the Avondale University Library, including loan conditions, renewals, and placing requests. Whether you’re studying on campus or online, you’ll find the key information you need to access and manage library resources with confidence.
Find out how to borrow items from the Avondale University Library, including loan conditions, renewals, and placing requests. Whether you’re studying on campus or online, you’ll find the key information you need to access and manage library resources with confidence. Visit the Borrowing page →
The Print Reserve Collection contains items that are in high demand by students and have been placed on a restricted loan. They are located behind the Loans Desk. You will need your student card to borrow them.
Reserve items may be borrowed in 2 hour blocks during the day for use in the Library only. Only 2 items at a time can be borrowed. Overnight loans may be borrowed from 4pm Sunday to Thursday and 12 noon on Friday for the weekend. All Reserve loans are due back 9am on weekdays or 2pm on Sunday.
Reserve items should be returned to the returns pad, rather than placing them in the returns box to avoid fines for late return. When the Library is closed you may return Reserve items in the after hours chute.
On both campuses, fines are calculated at $1.00 per hour or part thereof for late return of Reserve materials.
The Tom Ludowici Bioethics Collection is housed in the Avondale Sydney Library and is one of the largest single collections of bioethics books in Australia. Click here for a more detailed history of the collection.
The major topics in the collection are medical and nursing ethics, abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering (including cloning), and stem cell research.
As of 2016 there were 7,500 books and 8 print journal subscriptions in the collection.
Avondale Research Bachelors, Masters & PhD theses are available as follows:
Electronic theses - are available online in the Avondale Research repository as PDF files unless the thesis is under embargo.
Print theses held by the Library can found using the Advanced Search option in Primo:
You can search for Avondale theses about a specific topic by including additional keywords, e.g. marketing
Please note:
(For subscription access databases, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, please scroll to the bottom of the page. These databases are only available to Avondale students and staff members.)
Avondale Research Is an institutional repository of the research and scholarly output produced by Avondale staff and post-graduate students. It contributes to the growing international trend for open access to scholarly outputs and makes research literature freely available online.
Seventh-day Adventist Dissertations and Theses in Religion A bibliography of theses and dissertations completed by students at Seventh-day Adventist institutions of Higher Education through 2012. The bibliography is a work in progress, and is not complete. Challenges continue with the representation of non-Roman fonts and diacritics, so authors and titles with these issues may not be listed at this time. It is the goal to include all works in the bibliography.
Center for Research Libraries Foreign dissertations.
To meet scholars’ individual research needs, CRL purchases materials in the following areas for CRL libraries on request: • Foreign Doctoral Dissertations from institutions in countries outside the U.S. and Canada • Newspapers for which CRL owns at least one day of a newspaper title • Archival material from national governments, NGOs, and other organizations and institutions.
Cybertesis University of Chile, provides access to 50,000 theses from 32 world universities.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP) European working group of the networked digital library of theses and dissertations (NDLTD) Provides access to 106,000 doctoral theses. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Digital Library and Archives Their mission is to preserve and provide access to the research and scholarship of Virginia Tech's graduate students. There are 9268 Doctoral dissertations and 13,773 masters’ theses.
Dissertation.com Has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.
DiVA is an institutional repository for research publications and student theses written at 30 universities and colleges of higher education in Scandinavia.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities (University of Virginia) Search their library catalogue VIRGO for theses. Many texts now available through Google Books, HathiTrust and Project Gutenberg
E-Theses (from Finland) contains doctoral dissertations and other publications from the University of Helsinki. All of these full-text publications are freely accessible via the Internet.
ETHOS Offers free access to the full text of electronically stored UK theses. EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning.
National ETD Portal Provides access to ETDs produced in South Africa.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) International collection containing more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center is a global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. This index lets you search for information about each ETD.
OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents. Provides a global search of theses and dissertations from institutional repositories around the world. Check the FAQs
OpenDOAR has opted to collect and provide information solely on sites that wholly embrace the concept of open access to full text resources that are of use to academic researchers. Thus sites where any form of access control prevents immediate access are not included. Check the FAQs
PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) aims to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.
Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations Check the FAQs for good information on submitting a thesis, embargoes, copyright etc.
Seventh-day Adventist Dissertations and Theses in Religion A bibliography of theses and dissertations completed by students at Seventh-day Adventist institutions of Higher Education through 2012. The bibliography is a work in progress, and is not complete. Challenges continue with the representation of non-Roman fonts and diacritics, so authors and titles with these issues may not be listed at this time. It is the goal to include all works in the bibliography.
TEL: theses en ligne The purpose of TEL (thèses-EN-ligne) is to facilitate the self archiving of thesis manuscripts, which are important documents for direct scientific communication between scientists. The objective is to make scientific documents available to scientists all around the world, rapidly and freely
Theses Canada Provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.
TROVE Digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australian universities, other institutions and libraries. Trove includes theses at all levels, including Honours, etc. For more information on finding Australian theses visit this site
University of Miami Electronic Theses & Dissertations contains over 4000 dissertations and theses created between 1961 and the present. The Graduate School supports masters-level and doctoral programs. Check the FAQs
Directory of History Dissertations in Progress Contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the US. This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present.
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network Provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.
Please note that off campus access to these databases requires authentication with user name and password.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global contains a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. A premium resource for researchers and research students.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Dissertation Express From ProQuest. Good for US theses. It's free to search the database but to order full text costs $34 each.
Atlas of Living Australia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National Dictionary
Australian Newspapers Archive
Australia/NZ Reference Centre (Requires Login)
Britannica Online
Census of Population & Housing (ABS)
Credo Reference (Requires Login)
Dictionary of Sydney
Google Scholar
General Reference Centre Gold
German-English dictionary of religion and theology
Oxford Medical and Nursing Handbooks Online
Oxford Reference
Trove
Follow the below links to our current Newspaper subscriptions:
Australian Financial Review
Sydney Morning Herald
The Age
The Australian
Newcastle Herald
Adventist Colleges and Universities
Adventist Digital Library
Adventist Directory
Andrews University Library Catalogue
ASTR - Office of Archives, Statistics and Research
Biblical Research Institute
Adventist Theological Society - info
Center for Adventist Research
Circle
Complete Published Ellen G White Writings - info
Ellen G White Resources for Kids - info
Encounter Bible Curriculum
Research on Adventist Education
Avondale Research
SDA Obituary Index - info
SDA Periodicals Index - info
SDA Photographs
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventist Libraries
Adventist Periodicals
Select 'Archives' or 'Online Archives' within the website to search for articles.
Andrews University Seminary Studies
Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide (Teacher's Edition)
Adventists Affirm
Adventist Review
Adventist Yearbook
College and University Dialogue
JAE Journal of Adventist Education
JATS Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
Ministry Magazine
Record
Signs of the Times
Spectrum Magazine
TEACH Journal of Christian Education
Vibrant Life
Below you will find the best Web sites on the Church's past, which will yield rich material and illustrations for sermons, talks, devotionals and lectures.
Adventist Colleges and Universities
Adventist Digital Library
Adventist Directory
Andrews University Library Catalogue
ASTR - Office of Archives, Statistics and Research
Biblical Research Institute
Adventist Theological Society - info
Center for Adventist Research
Circle
Complete Published Ellen G White Writings - info
Ellen G White Resources for Kids - info
Encounter Bible Curriculum
Research on Adventist Education
Avondale Research
SDA Obituary Index - info
SDA Periodicals Index - info
SDA Photographs
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventist Libraries
Course Item Reserve Requests
Digitisation Request Form
Reserve Request Form
Resource Request – Digitisation
Resource Request - Intercampus Loan
Resource Request - Interlibrary Loan
Resource Request - Online Student Book Request
Resource Request - Online Student Research Help
Resource Request - Purchase Suggestion
Purchase Request Form
Intercampus Request Form
Interlibrary Loan Form (For Postgraduate Students, Staff Members, and External Libraries only)
For all forms see Library Forms
Primo is a search tool for books, eBooks, articles, journals, videos, and more. Primo is the name used for the Library Catalogue. Using Primo, you can search the Library Catalogue for physical books, online resources ( E-Books and journal articles), Open-Access resources and more.
EndNote EndNote manages references using bibliographic software. The program is free for Avondale University students.
Avondale Style Guide for APA Referencing with notes for using EndNote
Turabian Referencing
Avondale Style Guide for Turabian Referencing with notes for using EndNote
Avondale students and staff have access to FREE premium Grammarly accounts.
Grammarly Premium finds and offers corrections for hundreds of complex grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and style errors – and gives an explanation of why they’re wrong, so you can learn from the feedback. It undertakes 250 critical or advanced grammar and spelling checks – including contextual mistakes – and conducts genre-specific writing-style checks, and makes vocabulary suggestions. Grammarly can integrate with Microsoft Office (Windows only), email, and web browsers. You can check your work as you write, or disable Grammarly and check it when you’ve finished.
Note: You can use Grammarly to check for plagiarism, but Turnitin is still Avondale’s official text matching software.
1. Go to https://www.grammarly.com/enterprise/signup
2. Enter your Avondale email address, e.g. [email protected], and sign in through our Avondale branded sign in portal.
Once you've signed up, you can configure your account:
- Under Profile, choose British English, and add words to your personal dictionary
- Check out the Grammarly Apps tab.
- Check out the Tutorials to learn how to make the most of Grammarly
Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student writing. The company’s cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves lecturers time and provides rich feedback to students. Turnitin is a web-based electronic text-matching service that compares text in a student assignment against three databases for content matching.
Avondale uses the Turnitin software as a text-matching tool to support academic integrity. It gives you the opportunity to improve your assignment by highlighting revisions that may need to be made before your final submission.
It is a condition of enrolment at Avondale University that students accept their work may be monitored by staff using text-matching software. However, Turnitin is NOT a program to “catch you out.” Its primary purpose is to evaluate and improve academic writing and referencing skills.
Use Turnitin to ensure the originality of your work!
Further Help
Student quick start guide
Interpreting the Similarity report
Can I rely on Turnitin to pick up all plagiarism?
No. Turnitin only matches text. It is up to you to determine whether a student has referenced correctly. Remember that Turnitin does not pick up printed material, such as books from the library and print journals.
Are student papers kept confidential?
Yes, they must be kept confidential. As a member of the Avondale University staff you are not permitted to share an assignment with other members of the public, or to staff from other institutions.
Where do I find Turnitin?
You don’t need to look anywhere for Turnitin. It is incorporated into Moodle
How does Turnitin work?
The lecturer creates an assignment in Moodle. Students or lecturers then submit papers to Turnitin via file upload or cut-and-paste. A report is generated highlighting the non-original material in your assignment.
How long does it take to get a report?
The first submission may only take 15 minutes, but subsequent submissions may take 24 hours or more.
What is a Similarity Score?
The Similarity Score is a percentage of material in the assignment that has been matched from other sources. There is no need to be unnecessarily concerned about a high score, as Turnitin picks up things like:
• Book titles
• Quotes (which are allowed so long as they have been acknowledged)
• The cover page
• The assignment question
• Names of authors
• The reference list
• Common phrases and so on
The Similarity Score shows the percentage of non-original material in the assignment. The Originality Report highlights where the matches are.
Can a reference list be excluded from the report?
Yes. You can click the ‘Exclude Bibliography’ button in the top left hand corner of the Originality Report. This doesn’t change the Similarity Score, but the report can now be examined without this included.
How many times can an assignment be submitted?
That's up to you.
The options are:
Generate reports immediately, first report is final (Only one submission allowed)
Generate reports immediately, reports can be overwritten until due date (Multiple submissions allowed until the due date. Originiality reports are given immediately the first time, and then in 24 hours for subsequent submissions. No late submissions are allowed)
Generate reports on due date (Reports will not be generated until the due date. Resubmissions are not possible unless the lecturer deletes the first assignment)
How does a student submit an assignment?
Where do I go for help?
What about group projects?
You must impress on students that only one person from each group should submit the paper. If each group member submits the same assignment, Turnitin will return a 100% match!
Avondale Collection of Research and Archives (ACORA) is an institutional repository of the research and scholarly output produced by Avondale staff and post-graduate students. It contributes to the growing international trend for open access to scholarly output and makes research literature freely available online.
PrimoSearch Use PrimoSearch to search the Avondale Library online catalogue or online databases or both.
Avondale databases - Provide access to a wide range of journal articles and databases
Google Scholar - Google Scholar is a free service for searching scholarly literature. It includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports
SAGE Research Methods - Sage Research Methods is an excellent tool for planning your research strategy. In particular, you may find the Sage Research Methods Project Planner useful. This is a tool that guides you step-by-step through the whole research project, starting with the philosophy of research, defining a topic, and reviewing the literature, right through to disseminating your final report and publications.
ResearchGate - Research Gate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. The site has been described as a mash-up of “Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn” that includes “profile pages, comments, groups, job listings, and ‘like’ and ‘follow’ buttons”. Members are encouraged to share raw data and failed experiment results as well as successes, in order to avoid repeating their peers’ scientific research mistakes.
Academia - is another site to share and follow research with other researchers.
Academic Support: Studiosity - is a free online study help service available to all Avondale students. This resource is available outside of typical office hours and offers assistance in various aspects of learning.
The Adventist Theological Society (ATS) is an international, professional, nonprofit organization established as a theological resource for the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Two journals bring regular Society scholarship to libraries, theologians, pastors, church administrators, and interested lay people:
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society (JATS) is a refereed (double-blind peer-reviewed) scholarly journal, translated intermittently into German, Spanish, and Russia. JATS is sent to every member of the Evangelical Theological Society where it is read by nearly 2000 non-Adventist evangelical scholars.
Perspective Digest (PD) presents theological articles in a more popular format for our lay members. It regularly offers readable digests of significant JATS articles allowing the scholar's influence to reach beyond academia.
A series of monographs, occasional papers, Festschrifts, and dissertations further comprise the Society's publication portfolio.
The Adventist Theological Society allows an unlimited number of concurrent users
There is no help available for this site.
Connect to Complete Published EGW Writings
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The Complete Published Writings of Mrs. White are now available online. On this web site you can easily browse, read, search, and bookmark all of EGW's writings.
The Complete Published EGW Writings Collection allows an unlimited number of concurrent users
Connect to EGW Resources for Kids
God's Messenger: Meeting Kids Needs is a brand new web site created especially for teachers wanting to enhance their students spiritual walk with Jesus. There are 38 fully-developed lessons on 10 important topics that Adventist school students face in their daily lives. Each faith-building lesson integrates heart-warming Adventist pioneer stories along with Scripture and Ellen White's writings. We pray these resources will enrich the lives of your students, develop their faith in God, help them grow in Christian character, and build their sense of identity with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
EGW Resources for Kids allows an unlimited number of concurrent users
There is no help page available for this site
Connect to SDA Obituary Index
The SDA Obituary Index covers 1850 to the current year. Most of the geographical based periodicals began after 1900. Not all geographic regions are included in this coverage. More data is constantly being added.
The SDA Obituary Index allows an unlimited number of concurrent users
Connect to SDA Periodicals Index
The Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index provides indexing to approximately 40 Seventh-day Adventist journals and magazines.
The SDA Periodicals Index allows an unlimited number of concurrent users
This photograph database contains descriptions of a growing number of Seventh-day Adventist related photographs. The project began with people and will continue with sites and events related to the Seventh-day Adventist church. A large component will be photographs from Andrews University.
Link to Archive
Contains description and photographic image of approximately 15,000 photographs. This database currently contains about 2000 photographs related to Loma Linda history. We are continuing to scan and catalog the remaining images
Link to Archive
Contains more than 1200 photographic images from the archives of the Ellen G. White Estate.
Link to Archive
Currently there are 588 photographs and images indexed in this database.
Link to Archive
