Speciality Search Engines & Indexes; General Search Engines; Academic Use of the Internet; Theses & Dissertations; Other Digital Materials; Library Lists; Online Books; Speciality Online Book; Online Journals; Encyclopedias; Online Bibles; Fonts; Research Methods; Copyright; Bookstores.

General

Speciality Search Engines, Indexes and Link Sites

• Okeanos: Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Okeanos is an interdisciplinary resource for the study of the Ancient, Biblical, Classical, and Late Antique Near East created and maintained by Scott B. Noegel.
• All-in-One Biblical Resource Search. This site was developed by Mark Goodacre and includes the topics: Bible Versions and Translations, Greek New Testament, Biblical Resource Sites, Ancient World, General Academic and Religion, and Email List Archives.
• Scholarpedia - Eugen M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief - This is a free peer reviewed encyclopedia.
• THEOLDI. Theological Literature Documented in the Faculty for Catholic Theology at Leopold Franz University Innsbruck. THEOLDi contains the following databases: BILD - Biblical Literature Documented in Innsbruck; KALDI - Canonistic Literature Documented in Innsbruck; and MIMESIS - Documentation on the Mimetic Theology of Rene Girard.
• BiBIL. Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne.
• University of Haifa: Bibliographica Search Engine.
• BSW - Conbined searches of OBAL (Online Bible Articles Library); LCOC (Library of Congress Online Catalog, USA); COPAC (Union of Universities in the UK and Ireland); THEOLDI (University of Innsbruck; PIB (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome)
• Textweek Scripture Index.
• Yale University Divinity School Library - Research Guide for Christianity.
• Biblical Studies on the WEB - BSW Research Center
• Index Theologicus - a bibliographic database of over 600 periodicals, Festschriften and Congress Publications that is updated every night.
• Special Googles - Google Blog Search; Google Scholar.
  • Buller Bob. "Google Books and Biblical Studies: A Developing Resource." SBL Forum.
  • Biblical Studies Search - Searches biblical studies sites that are prepared by academic biblical scholars and researchers.
  • Biblioblogger Search Engine
• Religion-Online.org - Full texts by recognized religious scholars.

General Search Engines

• Search Engine Watch. Search Engine Watch provides up-to-date information on new search engines and features.
• Web Searching Tips. This page is connected to Search Engine Watch and provides tips on using search engines better.
• ResearchBuzz is designed to cover the world of Interent research. This site provides daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendium of information, Web directories, etc.

Academic Use of the Internet

• A Scholarly Guide to Google. Harvard College Library Research Guide. n.b. the important links in this path.
• Evaluation of Information Sources. This site is maintained by Alastair Smith and lists a series of links that help will help instruct about site selection criteria.
• Information Quality WWW Virtual Library. This site is by T. Matthew Ciolek and Irena M. Goltz.
• Zillman, Marcus P. Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources
• Web Research: Ten Tips for the Techno-Challenged - Michael Simkins - TechLearning, June 15, 2005.
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - UC Berkeley - by Joe Barker
• Internet Tutorial: How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory

Theses and Dissertaions

• DiVA - Academic Archive Online - In DiVA you can find theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from a number of Nordic universities.
• ProQuest - Dissertations.
  • Dissertations Express
• ADT - Australasian Digital Thesis Program
• ETD Digital Library
  • etds@vt - Digital Library and Archives at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
• ETD- Bombay - Electronic Theses and Dissertations -Bombay
• Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
  • British Thesis Service - The British Library.
  • ERA - Edingurgh Research Archive.
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities - Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.
• Yushudo Dissertation Service Center.

Other Digital Research Materials

• DSpace - The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.
• EPrints - Open Access Research Materials.
• Registry of Open Access Repositories.
• SCIRUS - for Scientific Information.
• CrossRef.org - CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef’s mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications.
• Service@INIST - an online services platform of the Scientific and Technical Information Institute.

Library Lists & Libraries

• Center for Research Libraries. CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
• Gateway to Library Catalogs. This site is the Library of Congress Page for gateway access to LC's catalog and those at many other institutions.
• Theological Schools of North America. A link page at Fuller Theological Seminary which list Seminaries throughout North America.
• Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
• Yale University Library.
• Assemblies of God Theological Seminary Library.
• Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Library.
• APTS - ATLA Series Link.
• APTS - EBSCO-Host Link.

Online Book Collections - General

• The Online Books Page. The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
• Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
• Making of America. aking of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• Internet Archive - Text Archive.
• Archive.org.This site was founded 1996 and its purpose is to offer a permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
• Google Book Search.
• FreeBookSpot. This site has 4485 free ebooks, separated into 98 categories.
• 4eBooks. This site specializes in computer programing books.
• Free-eBooks. Downloadable free ebooks of a general character.
• ManyBooks claims to have 21,287 books for a pda, ipod or ebook reader.
• GetFreeebooks. These ebooks have been collected from the internet or compiled by the site owner.
• FreeComputerBooks has 12 major categories with 150 subcategories of computer books.
• FreeTechBooks has books related to computer science, engineering and programming.
• Globusz is a ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads.
• OnlineFreeEbooks has links to free ebooks.
• BluePortal has free computer ebooks.
• OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books.
• BookYards claims to have a total of 16,045 books, 40,645 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 463 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure.
• Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

Online Book Collections - Biblical, ANE, Christian, and Judaic Works

• ETANA. Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives.
• Religious Study Web Guide. This web site, in existence since 1995, focuses on free internet resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library. CCEL is a collection of public domain Christian books in an electronic format.
• www.dabar.org. The purpose of this site is to provide resources that are freely distributable (unless otherwise noted) to those who are interested in studying the Bible (the biblical world, archaeology, ancient history, ancient texts), theology, missions, monotheistic religion (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) and pagan religions.
• ICLnet. A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet.
• TC Ebind Index. The TC Ebind Index contains digitized works of value to the study of biblical textual criticism. All of the images accessible from this page are freely available for non-commercial use.
• Seforim Online. This web site is dedicated to making old seforim of Rishonim and Acharonim available over the internet. The Seforim Online project is run by dedicated individuals who are commited to the mitzva of Talmud Torah. All of the seforim available on this web site are completely free. Most of them are out-of-print and are not readily available in stores. Some are not out-of-print, but due to their age do not have any copyright restrictions.
• HebrewBooks.org. Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. Many American Rabbis wrote Seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work.
• Jewish National and Universit Library - Digitized Book Repository.
• Online Christian Library - Virtual Theological - NTSLibrary.com - at Northwestern Theological Seminary.
• Chicago Oriental Institute Electronic Publications.
• List of Free Books in Biblical Studies and Related Fields - from Google Books, Archive.org & web-based content - by Bob Buller & Danny Zacharias.
• Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers - Old layout of the 38-volume set.

Online Journals - General Collections & More

• Making of American Journals: Catholic World (1865-1901); Princeton Review (1830-1882)
• Onkeanos: Journal List.
• The Seminary Review. Published by The Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary.
• Wabash Center - Electronic Journals.
• lectio difficilior. This site is an international e-journal dedicated to feminist exegesis.
• Directory of Open Acess Journals. The link is to the Philosophy & Religion section.

Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries & Other References

• Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible (New York: Macmillan; London: Adam and Charles Black, 1899-1903), by T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black
  • Volume I (A-D)
  • Volume II (E-K)
  • Volume III (L-P)
  • Volume IV (Q-Z)
• The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906 edition)
• The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, ed. Philip Schaff.
• World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity at CCEL

Bibles Online

• www.zhubert.com allows one to read the Bible in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic along with the ability to view the Codex Sinaiticus.

Font Issues & Keyboard Helps

• Fonts for Biblical Studies - Tyndale House
• Journal of Biblical Studies -Fonts
• Unicode - What a Biblical Scholar/Student Should Know about Unicode - Rodney J. Decker - n.b. updated pdf edition.
• Tavultesoft Keyman - n.b. The Home Use Edition is free and works with up to 2 keyboards.
• Keyboard Helps - International Accent Marks and Diacriticals: ALT Key Codes & Charts.

Research Methods (Quantitative & Qualitative Research)

• QualPage - Resources for Qualitative Research.
• The Qualitative Research Web Ring.
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Internet Resource List.

Copyright & Copyleft Issues

• Copyright Resources on the WWW - Kay E. Vandergrift.
• USA Copyright Office.
• Christians and the Copyright Law - Jack Decker.
• The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights - Roderick T. Long
• CopyLeft on Wikipedia.

Bookstores

• Books & Book Collecting.
• Oriental Institute Museum Store.
• Scholarly Reprints - Good Books: Hebrew Old Testament, Greek New Testament, Ancient Biblical Versions, Ancient Texts, Calvinsim.
• Wipf and Stock Publishers.