- ARDA
Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and named one of the best reference websites of 2010. It offers access to a great variety of resources, including reports in religion research, statistics, videos of worship services from diverse groups, and mapping features to locate congregations across the US. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world.
- Atla Digital Library
The Atla Digital Library brings together digital collections of scholarly, historical, and cultural significance that are relevant to the study, teaching, and learning of religion and theology.
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
- BestCommentaries.com
Reviews and ratings of Biblical, theological, and practical Christian works.
- BestBibleCommentaries.com
Commentary reviews, author interviews, new releases, and time-tested classics for pastors, preachers, teachers, students, and readers.
- 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.
- Elicit
An AI research assistant, Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
- Global Digital Library of Theology and Ecumenism (GlobeTheoLib)
This is a multilingual online library, offering access free of charge to more than 650,000 full-text articles, journals, books, and other resources. Its focus is on theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism in World Christianity.
- 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.
- 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."
- OWL
"The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction."
- PQDT Open (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses)
With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
- 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).
- Sefaria: A Living Library of Jewish Texts Online
is home to 3,000 years of Jewish texts. We are a non-profit organization offering free access to texts, translations, and commentaries so that everyone can participate in the ongoing process of studying, interpreting, and creating Torah.
- 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.
- Theology on the Web
The purpose of this site is to “make high quality theological material available freely throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries.” It includes rare and out-of-print theology books and articles and provides detailed bibliographies for seminary level students.
- Thesaurus Lingue Graecae (TLG)
Offers access to the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon (LSJ), the premier lexicon for the study of ancient Greek. LSJ is fully integrated with all texts found in TLG, and will show snippets of context (in Greek) from the various resources cited.
- Tyndales's Online Reading Rooms in Biblical-Theological Resources
Provides links to Open Access Resources, including books and web pages from around the web. Compiled by a professor at Tyndale Seminary in Ontario, these online reading rooms were designed to help make biblical-theological resources available to those without easy access to a theological library.
- 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.