Charlotte Theological Library Consortium http://www.atla.com/ctlc/ctlc.html
A guide to local cooperating libraries available to students.
These links are provided as possible resources of interest. However, NONE of these webpages have been evaluated as scholarly sources. Students who wish to use material for research must evaluate each site independently. For assistance, consult How Do I…evaluate Internet resources?
Indexes and Catalogs
Free version of WorldCat, OCLC’s worldwide catalog: http://www.worldcat.org
Research in Ministry (RIM) Online from ATLA, free index of DMin and DMiss projects: http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm
BUBL Information Service (Strathclyde University Centre for Digital Library Research), Internet resources across academic subject areas: http://bubl.ac.uk/
Reviews
Review of Biblical Literature (RBL): http://www.bookreviews.org
Free book reviews in Biblical studies and related fields. Multiple search options. Reviews in pdf's, must have Adobe Acrobat.
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/archive.html
Has an archive from 1990 to present of book reviews for classical resources. The site also can be searched by keyword.
H-Net Reviews: http://www.h-net.org/reviews
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. Full text reviews. Also has an 'advanced search' option.
The Medieval Review (previously The Bryn Mawr Medieval Review):http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/browse.html
Provides an archive of reviews from 1993 to present. Full text with multiple search options.
Bible Resources
Web directory of New Testament resources from Dr. Mark Goodacre (Duke University Department of Religion): http://www.ntgateway.com/
Collection of links for the Hebrew Bible and general ancient near eastern studies, by R. Christopher Heard (Pepperdine University, Professor of Religion): http://www.itanakh.org/
Holy Land Maps: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/pal/html
From the Jewish National and University library; over 1,000 maps of the Holy Land, 1500-1920. Excellent graphics.
Journals
Open access religion/theological journals from Saundra Lipton, librarian at the University of Calgary: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journals.html
Animus: a philosophical journal of our Time: http://www.swgc.mun.ca/animus/
Ars disputandi: the online journal for philosophy of religion: http://www.arsdisputandi.org/
Disputatio: http://disputatio.com/
Biblica: http://www.bsw.org/index?l=71
Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/
Journal for Christian theological research: http://www.luthersem.edu/ctrf/JCTR/default.htm
Journal for cultural and religious theory: http://www.jcrt.org/archives/
Journal for the study of religions and ideologies: http://www.jsri.ro/new/
Journal of Buddhist ethics: http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/
Journal of religion and society: http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/
Journal of southern religion: http://jsr.fsu.edu/
Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society: www.faithalone.org/journal
TC: a journal of Biblical textual criticism: http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/TC.html
Philosophy and Religion
Episteme Links: http://www.epistemelinks.com/
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
Erratic Impact: http://www.erraticimpact.com/
Religion Online: http://www.religion-online.org/
Virtual Religion Index: http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
Social Sciences Collection: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Adherents: http://www.adherents.com/
American Religion Data Archive: http://www.thearda.com/
Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion: http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/home/default.aspx
Aramaic Resources
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/
Offers the ability to find the Hebrew reflex (equivalent word) to the Aramaic used in Ongelos and Neofiti, the ability to search by Aramaic dialect, and the Syriac Peshitta of the Old Testament (from the Peshitta Institute in Leiden) is available and integrated with the lexicon (all Aramaic resources links courtesy of James Darlack, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary).
George Lamsa’s translation of the Old Testament Peshitta: http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com/OTtools/LamsaOT.htm
Newsletter for Targum & Cognate Studies, including English translations of some Targumic texts: http://www.targum.info/
Links for studying the Peshitta, from David Instone-Brewer of Tyndale House: http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/TTech/TTech035.htm
General Resources
The Writing Up Research Handbook discusses various parts of a research paper (from Asian Institute of Technology Language Center): http://www.languages.ait.ac.th/el21open.htm
Academic Info: www.academicinfo.net
Annotated, cited links. Check for source before using.
Digital librarian: http://www.digital-librarian.com
Links maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian; includes citations.
Virtual library: http://vlib.org
Has links maintained by various sources (some universities, many not); check for source before using.
Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu
Lists relevant results in a subject area; puts a dollar sign ($) if the resource isn't free.
Librarian’s index to the internet: http://lii.org
Annotated links, with clear, easily navigated index. Good interface.
United States Census: http://www.census.gov/
Statistical Abstract of the United States: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
FedStats: http://www.fedstats.gov/