LibGuides: Theology: Databases

Database Introduction

This page provides links to major databases subscribed to by the University Library and free databases to find journal articles

Theology and Religion Databases

Start your search with these free open access theology and religion databases. Hover your cursor over the button for more details of each database.

ARTSTOR This link opens in a new window The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is a comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window Full-text of journal articles, book reviews and essays in the fields of religion from major religion and theology journals.
BrowZine This link opens in a new window BrowZine allows studemts to access different journal articles through the University Library database. Students are able to browse different subjects such as Arts and Humanities, History, Mathematics and Statistics, etc. BrowZine can be accessed from any laptop, tablet or phone, and can download the BrowZine app through the app store on their smart device.
Catholic News Archive This link opens in a new window The Catholic News Archive is a project of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), a non-profit alliance of archives and libraries collaborating in support of the mission to provide enduring global access to Catholic research resources. The archive has thousands of newspaper pages, from different cities, over multiple years, and is fully text searchable. The content can be viewed in the context of the newspapers' editorials, pictures, and advertisements.
Catholic Portal, The This link opens in a new window The Catholic Portal provides access to and discovery of rare, unique, and uncommon Catholic scholarly resources via robust search and display tools. By electronically bringing together resources in many formats from many collections, the Portal enables easy, effective, and global discovery of Catholic research resources. Learn more about the Portal, including our Subject Guides for searching the Portal and our twelve primary collecting themes.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research, including texts related to American and world history, biography, health, arts, business, travel, religion, and multicultural studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is a comprehensive database providing access to academic scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, that are DRM-free, and primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window The Philosopher’s Index database covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy, which also includes contributions to anthologies and book reviews.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window Religion & Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Religion (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Religion Database provides periodicals and other sources for diverse religious studies, covering formal theological studies . This database contains many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.

Open Access Databases

Start your search with these free open access theology and religion databases. Hover your cursor over the button for more details of each database.

World Digital Library The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Women Biblical Scholars This blog includes profiles, interviews, book reviews, and other means to spotlight women biblical scholars. Of particular interest are scholars whose work contributes to the thriving of faith communities and advances helpful discussion of religion in our contemporary world.
Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library The 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.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Abridged Open Access Version) This database provides access to the most important Greek works as well as a digital version of Liddell, Scott, Jones Greek Lexicon. Please note: free registration is required to gain access.
Theological Commons (Princeton Seminary) This digital library contains books and journals on theology and religion. The provider is the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Provides the full text of an authoritative, current online encyclopedia covering all areas of philosophy.
Society of Biblical Literature Bible Odyssey Explore the fascinating origins of the Bible and its eventful history. On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.
Old Testament Essays Publishes articles on all aspects of Old Testament literature, theology, archaeology, and society.
Database of Religious History The world's first comprehensive online quantitative and qualitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University) This database provides freely accessible, contemporary translations of major works from the Classical Greek world. It also provides access to hundreds of books and articles related to the Greek world. This database will be useful for students doing research into the Classical backgrounds of the New Testament.
Academic Journals This database is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals publishes open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.