- Academia.edu
is a platform for sharing academic research papers.
- Adherents.com
compiles membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 world religions, churches, denominations, tribes, cultures, etc. Researchers can use this site to answer such questions as "How many Lutherans live in Wisconsin?", "What are the major religions of India?", or "What percentage of the world is Muslim?" Adherents.com also has detailed lists of influential and famous adherents of over 100 different religious groups (famous Methodists, Jews, Zoroastrians, etc.), and lists of prominent people (actors, politicians, authors, U.S. presidents, artists, Supreme Court justices, etc.) classified by religious affiliation. These lists are linked to thousands of detailed religious/spiritual biographies.
- BestCommentaries.com
Reviews and ratings of Biblical, theological, and practical Christian works
- Bible.org
provides “free access on the Internet to the finest, most trustworthy biblical truths and materials.”
- Bible Suite
include a varity of online resources include an online Bible, original language tools, reference materials, study resources, and much more.
- Buros.org
The Buros Center for Testing operates as an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the science and practice of testing and assessment. The site also acts as an index for the Mental Measurements Yearbook. Enter the name of the measurement you're researching into the search box at the top of the page, and the results will point you towards which editions contain data regarding that measurement.
- Christian Classics Etheral Library (CCEL)
seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. The CCEL accomplishes this by selecting, collecting, distributing, and promoting valuable literature through the World Wide Web and other media.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
covers over 6900 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. Browse a specific subject category to view journals available in that area, i.e., “Philosophy and Religion.”
- Free Full Text Religion Journals on the Internet
is a rather comprehensive list of around 600 theological journals that are freely available in English on the web. The list is courtesy of Dr. John Jaeger of Dallas Baptist University.
- Global Missiology
provides quarterly updates on the world-wide mission of the Church. It offers “contributions from international researchers, practitioners and scholars who have a global perspective.” Select a language, then enter your terms in the “Search” box.
- Globethics.net
is a global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large number of resources on ethics, especially through its leading global digital ethics library and facilitates collaborative web-based research, conferences, and online publishing.
- Google Scholar
“provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles.”
- HathiTrust
“is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.”
- IPL2: Internet Public Library 2
is a gateway to bibliographies of free resources, but also includes encyclopedia articles and other online texts. Some areas to look at:
- <Newspapers & Magazines> (choose a place or search a title)
- <Resources by Subject>
- Arts and Humanities
- Religion & Theology
- Reference
- Style & Writing Guides
- Citations
- IPL FAQ Citing electronic information
- lexicool.com
is primarily a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. It is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.
- Medscape
gives access to the Medscape, Medline, and Drug Reference databases, along with daily medical and psychological news and research. You may browse or search for an article but must sign in when you select one to read. (This requires a user id and password available by contacting the library.)
- Monergism.com
provides free resources for equipping the saints (as well as informing skeptics) in the historic Reformed Christian faith.
- Online Chinese Christianity Collection
"The Online Chinese Christianity Collection is a comprehensive free online collection of Chinese theology and on Christianity in China, including material in Chinese as well in other languages relating to Chinese theology and Christianity."
- Open Access Bible Commentaries Quick Search
Seth Allen (King University) developed a
list of links to online commentaries and Sally Shelton (ORU) developed a Google custom search engine for them. You can easily search through multiple sites with a single search. In performing a search, you may add a commentator's name to focus your results. For example, to find what Robertson says about the Greek word charis (grace), key in the words: charis Robertson. Hebrew and Greek words may be searched in Hebrew or Greek, e.g. עַלְמָה, πνεῦμα, or by transliteration, e.g. alma, pneuma.
- OpenThesis
is a project aimed at creating a global repository of theses, dissertations, and other research documents and aims to make these documents known and freely accessible worldwide. Though smaller institutions may not have the staff, time or money at present to upload their theses, this database provides access to a large reservoir of resources from larger institutions.
- PQDT Open (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses)
With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
- ProQuest Dissertation Express
Copies of many theses and dissertations may be obtained through ProQuest Dissertation Express.
- Research in Ministry Online® (RIM®)
is a searchable database of indexes and abstracts for doctoral projects and theses from programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS).
- StudyLight.org
is an online Bible resource site packed with the most Bibles and study resources found on the net, everything needed to help you in your study of God’s Word. And it is all free.
- Theological Commons
is a digital initiative of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library. Begun in 2011, its purpose is to improve access to the digital and non-digital material held in the Library and, in particular, to bring Princeton Seminary’s digital collections together in a single more convenient framework, making searching and viewing of those collections easier and quicker.
- Theological Journal List from Tyndale House, Cambridge
This list of theological journals was compiled by the staff of Tyndale House, an evangelical study center in Cambridge, England. It has links to the journal’s website and notes if the journal is free. You can use to find free journals in theological studies and secure the correct name of a journal for interlibrary loan requests.
- Theology on the Web
proposes to make high quality theological material available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries. It provides detailed bibliographies, reprints rare and out-of-print theology books and articles, and provides translations of theological articles in a number of languages. Click on a broad subject to the left for a list of titles, and click on an individual title for full text or to go to Amazon.com to order. It is made up of the following websites:
- BiblicalStudies.org.uk
provides detailed bibliographies on each book of the Bible, as well as on hermeneutics, archaeology, criticism, language, etc. - almost everything connected with the Bible and its study.
- TheologicalStudies.org.uk
provides material on a range of theologies and theologians, as well as specific doctrines such as the Trinity. The section on practical theology seeks to provide material on how theology is applied in daily life, in such areas as politics and ethics.
- EarlyChurch.org.uk
will cover early church history until the rise of the medieval Papacy (c.600 AD).
- MedievalChurch.org.uk
covers church history from the rise of the Papacy to the time of the Reformation.
- BiblicalArchaeology.org.uk
provides material relating to the archaeology of the lands of the Bible.
- Theopedia
is an encyclopedia of biblical Christianity. Browse a large topic, or enter specific search terms in the search box, upper right.
- Voice of the Shuttle
VoS’s “mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media… VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities.” The Religious Studies category provides access to a broad spectrum of articles on religion.
- Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library
is a free, multidisciplinary, open access, digital resource of books, literature, multimedia material, and archives collected into a single institutional repository initiated by the global Church of the Nazarene in response to the global need for access to resources for education, lifelong learning, and specifically ministerial preparation.
- Wikipedia
is “a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia…written collaboratively by volunteers all around the world.” Select a language, then enter your term(s) in the search box.. Terms highlighted in the text link to related articles. Use with discernment.
- Worldcat
“The world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.”
- YourDictionary.com
is “the most comprehensive online resource for your dictionary needs.”
