| AMBROSE LIBRARY | The Ambrose Library serves the students, faculty and staff of Ambrose University College and Ambrose Seminary. It is one of the largest private academic libraries in western Canada. Its rapidly growing collection features more than 120,000 bound volumes and 185 magazine and journal titles. Particular strengths include Christian studies, history, music, behavioural science, business, English, and Islamics |
| ATLA COOPERATIVE DIGITAL RESOURCES INITIATIVE | A large collection of images relating to the study of religion. Free for use in educational contexts. Good for illustrating lectures and other presentations (if you have access to a video projector)” |
| BARTLEBY.COM | The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students researches and intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information the web, free of charge |
| BIBLEGATEWAY | Online searchable versions of the Bible in many languages, including Tagalog, Cebuano, and most English versions. Also includes The IVP New Testament Commentary Series |
| CHRISTIAN CLASSICS ETHEREAL LIBRARY | A collection of digital versions of influential Christian books that are in the public domain. Especially valuable are the following series: The Ante-Nicene Fathers, The Nicene Fathers, and The Post-Nicene Fathers |
| DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS | Includes a limited number of full-text journals in biblical studies, theology, and related areas. Has a rudimentary subject search feature |
| GLOBETHICS | A collection of full-text books and articles on theology and ethics in many languages. Includes some reference books published by Oxford and Cambridge university presses. Requires user to fill out a membership form, but this is easily done |
| GOOGLE BOOKS | The largest collection of digitized books. Includes many in biblical studies and theology, but search results are mixed: some books have been completely digitized, some are missing random pages, some include only part of the book, some include only the citation |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | Best for scholars’ personal websites, e.g., N.T. Wright. These may have links to open access publications (articles, sermons, study papers, and lectures). It may also have links to other open-access articles, but it often directs users to publishers’ websites where articles are offered on a pay-per-view basis. This can be frustrating |
| HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY | This collection of books from university libraries includes many full text works in the public domain |
| INDEX THEOLOGICUS | IxTheo is an “…index to theological literature includes many major non-English language journals |
| INTERNET ARCHIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY | A freely available library of texts, audio and video |
| iPL2 | ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day |
| ITANAKH | iTanakh is the equivalent for Old Testament studies, but many of the links are either dead or take the user to pay per view resources |
| NEW TESTAMENT GATEWAY | This gateway is well known as being one of the best online New Testament resources available |
| ONLINE BOOKS PAGE FROM UPENB | A guide to freely available full text books |
| PROJECT GUTENBERG | Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online |
| REDALYC.ORG | Research index from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México includes over 800 full text journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal |
| RELIGION ON THE WEB | This gateway to resources in religion was prepared by a librarian and so is well-organized by subject. Coverage is broad and includes much full text, although some of the links are dead. This resource also directs the user to high-quality websites on all aspects of theology and related disciplines. Try out the “missions” link to online journals (e.g., International Journal of Frontier Missions), websites of mission organizations, syllabi for seminary courses on missions, and other resources |
| STATISTICS CANADA | Statistics Canada is required to "collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical information relating to the commercial, industrial, financial, social, economic and general activities and conditions of the people of Canada |
| THE CCCW LIBRARY | The CCCW Library is one of the UK’s foremost missiological libraries, and is actively expanding. The Library holds books and periodicals from around the world, including many not found elsewhere in the UK |
| THE TEXT THIS WEEK | Preaching helps including lectionaries, commentary, sermons, articles, notes, children’s resources, and suggested hymns and songs to accompany a sermon on a given passage |
| THE WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY | The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web |
| UNIVERSAL LIBRARY | Universal Library is designed to “…foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the internet |
| VIRGO | Virgo contains both the catalog—with materials like books, print journals, DVDs, maps and digitized materials—and online articles from our rich array of subscription journals. The sub-collections … have custom search for media and discipline-specific materials |
| WORLDCAT | WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is built and maintained collectively by the participating libraries |
