Top Recommended Websites

Books

Theological Commons

Digital library by Princeton Theological Seminary with 160,000+ books and periodicals in theology, church history, and religious studies.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)

Classic Christian writings from Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley in online and downloadable formats.

Journal Access

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Peer-reviewed academic journals across disciplines, with direct links to full-text articles.

Project MUSE Open Access

Humanities and social sciences journals and books from university presses.

General Searches

Google Scholar

Search engine indexing scholarly books, articles, and theses across disciplines.

CORE

Aggregates millions of open-access papers from repositories worldwide.

Subject and Topic-Specific Resources

Biblical Studies and Theology

STEP Bible

Cambridge tool offering Greek and Hebrew texts, lexicons, commentaries, and translations.

Globethics Library

Digital library on theology, ethics, and intercultural dialogue.

Internet Archive

Repository of millions of books and texts including theology and church history.

Project Gutenberg

Public-domain Christian classics like Augustine’s Confessions and Aquinas’s Summa Theologica.

History and Church History

Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks

Collection of historical texts covering early and medieval Christianity.

Internet Archive Church History

Digitized church history materials and studies from seminary libraries.

Philosophy and Ethics

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Peer-reviewed encyclopedia on philosophy of religion, ethics, and metaphysics.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Scholarly articles on philosophical and ethical topics.

Education and Social Science Research

ERIC

U.S. Department of Education database with education research and reports.

SSRN

Academic papers in social sciences, law, and education.

General Academic and Interdisciplinary

Semantic Scholar

AI-powered tool indexing scholarly papers and citations.

BASE

Index of academic documents from thousands of repositories.

OpenAIRE

European research database linking millions of open-access publications.

Zenodo

Repository for academic papers and data hosted by CERN.

Paperity

Aggregator of peer-reviewed journals from various publishers.

OATD

Global index of graduate theses and dissertations from universities.