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Library Catalogs
Directories of Reviewed Sites
History: Presbyterian
History: General
Biblical Studies
Free On-Line Journals
On-Line Books Pages
Church and Worship Service Aids
Scholarship on the Web
Other Resources: Scholarly Literature and Statistics
Writing Research Papers and Citation Guides
Library Catalogs
WorldCat
Collection of Library Catalogs
Over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
Library of Congress:
World’s Largest Library
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
SEPTLA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Theological Library Association)
This association fosters and supports cooperative endeavors among theological libraries in eastern Pennsylvania and the adjacent mid-Atlantic area. Montgomery Library is a member of this consortium of 19 seminary libraries in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area.
Directories of Reviewed Sites
Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources in Religion
A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.
ATLA list of Internet Resources
Online resources selected by librarians in the American Theological Library Association, organized by date of inclusion.
Virtual Religion Index
Directory for religious studies, including Christianity and other world religions. This Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major directories & documents within. Our purpose is not to circumvent tours of worthy sites, but to cut down the time spent on surfing & sorting of automated searches.
Yale Divinity School Library: Research Guide for Christianity
Comprehensive list of resources in Christianity organized by format and subject. Includes a link called: Free Online Resources for the Study of Christianity
History: Presbyterian
Westminster Assembly Project
For more than 350 years most of the original manuscript minutes of the Westminster Assembly have remained unpublished. These official minutes record the debates of the English, Scottish and French theologians at plenary sessions of the Assembly as well as the Assembly’s inner workings and resolutions. The large three-volume manuscript of the minutes is housed in Dr Williams’s Library, London. These volumes contain 550,000 words and span the years 1643 to 1652. While much of the third volume was published in the late nineteenth century, it was based on an imperfect transcript. This project intends to publish all three volumes of the original manuscript minutes in Dr Williams’s Library, in addition to the recently discovered papers of the Assembly. The publication of The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly will more than triple the available sources on the Assembly and will fill a major gap in our understanding of the Assembly and its documents.
Presbyterian Historical Society
National archives of the PCUSA, including predecessor denominations. To help patrons locate materials, the society has created several resources, which are available via our website, that describe our holdings. If you find an item of interest you will need to contact the society about the accessibility of the material as our collections do not circulate. CALVIN, the society's electronic catalog, contains records for over 75,000 books, periodicals, and processed archival collections housed at the society's headquarters in Philadelphia and regional office in Montreat, North Carolina. The CALVIN records for processed archival collections also contain links to the society's finding aids. [Note, CALVIN does not include records for most materials cataloged by the Society before 1980 or unprocessed archival collections.]
History: General
Billy Graham Center Archives
The Archives gathers, preserves and makes available for use unpublished documents on the history of North American nondenominational Protestant efforts to spread the Christian Gospel. Although anyone may come and use the collections, these materials are especially intended as a resource for the evangelistic mission of the church.
Catholic Encyclopedia 1913 edition
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine…It differs from the general encyclopedia in omitting facts and information which have no relation to the Church. On the other hand, it is not exclusively a church encyclopedia, nor is it limited to the ecclesiastical sciences and the doings of churchmen (text selected from original preface).
Jonathan Edwards site at Yale University
We are happy to present, free to the public, approximately 25,000 pages of Edwards' writings. Some of these texts, previously unpublished, represent a significant addition to the available Edwards corpus. The next 35,000 pages will go live in Spring 2007.
Biblical Studies
Bible Gateway.
Searchable bibles online (includes English and other languages)
Welcome to BibleGateway.com
A free service for reading and researching Scripture online--all in the language or translation of your choice! We provide advanced tools you can use to search the Bible by keywords or verse, as well as other tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
Bible Search Engine
A few of the many available resources include: Bibles (NIV, NKJV, KJV, NLT, others), Greek and Hebrew Tools, Bible Study Tools, iLumina mobile, Maps, and many Christian eBooks from authors such as Piper, Evans, Stanley, Murray, etc.
New Testament Gateway
Welcome to The New Testament Gateway, the award winning web directory of internet resources on the New Testament, currently being updated daily. Browse or search annotated links on everything from the Greek New Testament to Jesus in Film. For updates, new information, discussion, comments and assorted observations, please visit the NTGateway weblog.
Old Testament Gateway
The Old Testament Gateway is a comprehensive, annotated, academic directory of internet sites on the Old Testament.
Synoptic Gospels homepage
A Synoptic Gospels Primer is an electronic gateway for English speakers into the history of literary analysis of gospels that were originally composed in Greek. For those who can read or at least decipher some New Testament Greek, this e-textbook includes a sample Greek synopsis based on the Nestle-Aland critical edition used by modern biblical scholars. Yet, knowledge of Greek is not required for most of the pages of this electronic text, since the thread on which it is constructed is an English version of the gospels.
Free Online Journals and Indexes
Free Theological Journals on the Web
Compiled by the American Theological Library Association.
Directory of Online Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2897 journals in the directory. Currently 933 journals are searchable at article level.
Religion Online
More than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.
Review of Biblical Literature
The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields. Appearing in this digital form and in print, RBL is comprehensive, international, and timely. Free, online book reviews of scholarly literature in biblical studies. About 400 reviews per year.
The Theologian: internet journal for integrated theology
The Theologian is dedicated to presenting theological and pastoral resources of the highest quality to the wider church over the internet.
Online Books Pages
Online books CCEL Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education. The onlineserver reaches several million different users each year. CCEL texts are stored in our own Theological Markup Language, which is an XML application. Texts are converted automatically into other formats such as HTML or PDF.
University of Pennsylvania Digital Library
Our local index includes more than 25,000 English works in various formats that meet these criteria. All should be free for personal, noncommercial use. You can:
Search our Listings by Author and Title
Browse Our New Listings
Browse by Author
Browse by Title
Browse by Subject
Browse serial archives
See also Books in progress or requested.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. There are over 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. A grand total of over 100,000 titles is available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
Church and Worship Service Aids
The Cyberhymnal
This site has over 6,500 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, & more. To use the site effectively, you’ll need speakers, a sound card & a browser that supports JavaScript & XHTML, & can play MIDI files.
Gospel Communications Network
Ten years after its launch, Gospelcom.net has grown to become the most popular Christian website in the world. From its 1995 inception with 10 alliance ministries, Gospelcom.net has mushroomed to now include over 300 individual online ministries working to use technology and the Internet to reach the world with the message of Jesus Christ.
Scholarship on the Web
RIM: Research in Ministry.
RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network.
The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online through our search and order system.
TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies. Here are a few of our conference paper sources:·
Evangelical Theological Society (1,129 papers) ·
American Society of Church History (150 papers) ·
Society for Pentecostal Studies (75 papers) ·
North American Patristic Society (20 papers) ·
American Catholic Historical Association (14 papers)
Other Resources: Scholarly Literature, Statistics
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
ARDA: Association of Religion Data Archive
The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. Over 350 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research.
Adherents.com
Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The religions of the world are enumerated here.
Basically, 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?" We present data from both primary research sources such as government census reports, statistical sampling surveys and organizational reporting, as well as citations from secondary literature which mention adherent statistics.
Christian Theology Page
Welcome to a hub for locating serious Christian theological activity on the Internet. Offers links to theological institutions, libraries, associations, publishers, journals, and denominations, among others.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
Perseus Digital Library
Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University. The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Art and archaeology catalogs document a wide range of objects: over 1,500 vases, over 1,800 sculptures and sculptural groups, over 1,200 coins, hundreds of buildings from nearly 100 sites and over 100 gems. Catalog entries are linked to tens of thousands of images, many in high resolution, and have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars.
In addition to art and archaeology sources, essays, and tools, the classics collection features several hundred works of classical Greek and Roman authors, both in the original language and in translation. Moreover, Perseus has created a suite of powerful linguistic tools, all extensively linked to lexica, which permit the careful study of Greek and Latin.
Writing Research Papers and Citation Guides
Turabian Quick Guide
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, by William Badke
“Writing Research Essays in a North American Academic Institutions--a guide for international students,” by William Badke. This is a preview chapter from Badke’s print-only book: Beyond the Answer Sheet: Academic Success for International Students.
