Religion and Theology Open Access Resources: Taming the Internet

Students now have access to huge libraries of material over the internet. The challenge is how to find something useful. How can we teach and model the taming of the internet? This session will share a strategy for finding good results.

Local resources

• Digital Commons @ Andrews University
• Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the Digital Commons @ Andrews University - Dissertations, Theses, Project Documents, Faculty Publications, Books, Journals, and Events representing the scholarship of the SDATS

Historical and Special Collections in Religion and Theology

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
• Ellen G. White Writings
• GlobeTheoLib
• The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library Description of this database
• Post-Reformation Digital Library
• Open Access Digital Theological Library - requires individual (free) registration

Additional Open Access Databases for E-books

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Open Library

National/Regional Online Archives

• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Germany)
• Digital Public Library of America
• Europeana
• Gallica
• TROVE: National Library of Australia

Open Access Databases

• Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ
• Electronic Journals Library
• Google Scholar
• Journal TOCS
• Latindex
• Microsoft Academic Search
• The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR - an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

Related Open Access Databases

• Adventist Digital Library Description of this database.
• AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
• Adventist Theological Society
• Anthropological Index Online
• General Conference of SDA Online Archives
• Index theologicus: Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie
• RAMBI
• Religious Studies Web Guide
• Theological Journals Search 

Open Access Dissertation Databases

The following list of databases provide access to dissertations and theses. The list does not include single institution repositories.

• Center for Research Libraries Foreign Dissertations
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal
• DiVA: Academic Archive On-line
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
• EthOS
• National ETD Portal: South African theses and dissertations
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations
• openthesis
• PQDT Open Access Dissertations and Theses Description of this database
• Research in Ministry (RIM) Online Description of this database
• TEL (thèses-en-ligne)
• Theses Canada
• WorldCatDissertations Description of this database