Past Internet Resources of the Week
Suggested to the library by Fuller faculty and staff

May 16, 2008 Index theologicus (IxTheo): a major index to periodical literature and to articles published in essay collections, with subject headings in both German and English.  From the Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen.  Captures permanently what appears initially in ZID Theologie, below.

ZID (Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst) Theologie: tables of contents to recent journal issues and essay collections from around the world, with article-level subject headings in both German and English.  Records more than three months old are incorporated into the database Index theologicus, above.

May 7, 2008 http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/researchtools.aspx The Society of Biblical Literature research tools page offers links to biblical studies web sites, free access to the Review of Biblical Literature, and resources for writing papers, such as the Student Supplement to the SBL Handbook of Style.

May 2, 2008  http://www.mnu.edu/academics/mabee/archives.php  This site offers early manuals from holiness churches, from 1895 - 1923; and manuals of the Church of the Nazarene from 1989 - 2001. They were scanned by the Marg Smith Archives of Mid America Nazarene University in co-operation with the Nazarene Archives.

April 25, 2008 http://www.laijohn.com/ Archive of Church History in Taiwan was developed by John Lai, retired professor from the Harvard Yenching Library.  The interface is in Chinese; it includes documents in Chinese, English and Japanese.

April 15, 2008  http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica  "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" has more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The text of the newspapers is fully searchable, and search terms can be limited to a particular state, a specific newspaper, and year or years and even months of publication. Another Library of Congress exhibit is about Bibles: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/Bibles/ 

April 8, 2008  http://www.newmanreader.org/  The complete works of John Henry Newman, with various full text search features. About 50 books total.

March 24, 2008  http://digital.library.ptsem.edu/  Princeton Theological Seminary Digital collections, over 85,000 items, including articles from their publications, sermons, manuscripts, and photos. It includes the Moffet Collection of 19th century Korean photographs, Karl Barth Society Newsletter (1990-2005), Princeton Theological Review (1825-1929), Princeton Seminary Bulletin (1907-2007), and Studies in Reformed Theology and History (1993-2005).

March 17, 2008  http://www.library.yale.edu/div/Nanking/about.html  On December 13, 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Nanking. The ensuing six weeks became known to history as the Nanking Massacre. This web site provides access to first hand accounts and photographs from Westerners who remained in Nanking after the Japanese invasion. These resources do not provide a comprehensive understanding of what occurred in Nanjing during 1937-1938, but the observations made by these men and women provide an important historical lens to complement additional research.

March 10, 2008  http://www.lausanne.org  The official site of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.  Includes the full text of hundreds of documents produced by and for the conferences.

February 29, 2008 Pitt Latin American Series  The full text of many books in this series are available free on the web.

February 20, 2008  http://archives.sim.org/  SIM periodicals, including the Sudan, South Africa, Bolivia, Ceylon and India.

February 8, 2008  http://www.dacb.org  Dictionary of African Christian Biography includes over 1,200 biographies of Christians from Africa.  Most articles are written by African scholars, and most are in English, some are in French.

January 29, 2008  http://www.soulpreaching.com/  Site "Celebrating Preaching through the Black Preaching Tradition and Black Sermons."

January 22, 2008  
http://www.hsscol.org.hk/fangzhi/main.htm  Chinese government's series of local gazetteers. And a paper by Rev. Dr. Kim-kwong Chan on how to use these gazetteers for church history: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/ChinaGazetteers.doc .

January 14, 2008 http://northstar.vassar.edu/archive.html North Star is a journal of African American religious history.

January 7, 2008  http://digilib.bu.edu/dspace/  Boston University Digital Research Archive -- Includes about 830 full text sermons, books, and articles. Browsing seems to work better than keyword searching for this site.

December 21, 2007  http://www.divinity.duke.edu/wesleyan/texts/  Duke Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition includes the texts of John and Charles Wesley's poetry, and links to many other resources.

December 12, 2007  http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerus/index_eng.html  Biblia Clerus links biblical passages to commentary by Church fathers and other interpretation. Developed by the Roman Catholic Church.

November 29, 2007  http://www.ulib.org  Universal Digital Library offers 1.5 million books. It's scope is more global than Google books, offering 900,000 books in Chinese, and tens of thousands of books in Arabic, Persian, and Indian languages. Also it aims to include out-of-print books which are still under copyright by getting permission for these "orphans;" over 900,000 of the books were published after 1920.

November 16, 2007  http://www.barna.org/  The Barna Group provides statistics and research services for U.S. Christian ministries. The weekly Barna Update is an intriguing source for current trends.

November 7, 2007  http://www.calvin.edu/worship/az_index.php  Calvin Institute of Christian Worship web site include hundreds of full text articles, worship services, and program ideas. It aims to promote the scholarly study of the theology, history, and practice of Christian worship and the renewal of worship in worshiping communities.

November 1, 2007  http://www.ntgateway.com/  The New Testament Gateway is a web directory of internet resources.  Browse or search annotated links on everything from the Greek New Testament to Jesus in Film.  It is maintained by Dr. Mark Goodacre of Duke University.

October 22, 2007  http://library.usc.edu/uhtbin/catstat.pl/impa  Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean.

October 8, 2007  
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/  Perseus is a major online digital library of text and images. It has extensive coverage of Greek and Latin images and source materials. Also it includes more recent California and global source materials.

September 28, 2007  http://medievalsourcesbibliography.org/  The Medieval Sources Bibliography provides a searchable bibliography of texts—from private letters, wills, and household accounts to literary works, philosophical treatises, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents—that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in printed or online editions and translations.

September 18, 2007  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/  New York Public Library Digital Gallery includes over 250,000 images. Nice source for public domain images to go along with PowerPoint presentations.

September 14, 2007  http://ocp.acadiau.ca/  Online Critical Pseudepigrapha makes available full text version of critical editions of these documents related to the Old Testament.

September 6, 2007  Pocket World in Figures (on campus) or (off campus) From the Economist, this brief book is a wealth of statistical information.  Subject areas include geography, population, business, the economy, trade, transport, finance, industry, demographics, the environment, society, culture and crime.  This free eBook from OCLC NetLibrary is available only for the month of September 2007.

August 29, 2007  http://www.uee.ucla.edu  UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology includes approximately 4000 peer reviewed articles. It is an example of a scholarly research tool developed solely for the web.

August 17, 2007  http://etext.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html  Dictionary of the History of Ideas: studies of selected pivotal ideas. Philip P. Wiener, editor. 1973-74. Online version of this classic reference work. A new revised print edition was published in 2005.

August 10, 2007  http://anglicanhistory.org/  Project Canterbury includes full text source documents related to Anglican history, including Anglican missions sources. There are topical, chronological, and geographic groupings.

July 30, 2007  http://www.bl.uk/sacred  British Library exhibition of 66 sacred texts, from the 1st century (one Dead Sea scroll) through the 19th century, including full text images.

July 16, 2007  http://www.erasmus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=eol.searchform  Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies includes an extensive catalog, scanned images and texts.

June 27, 2007  http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/ Codices Electronici Sangallenses (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) includes facsimiles of over 140 manuscripts from the 8th to 12th centuries.

June 19, 2007  http://www.virtualreligion.net/iho/ Into His Own:  Perspective on the World of Jesus is designed as a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures by exploring the first century Jewish tradition.  The bulk of the passages are excerpts from works written by Jewish authors, especially those composed after the Hebrew scriptures.  There are also selections from non-Jewish sources.

June 5, 2007  http://www.pulpitandpew.duke.edu/index.html  Pew & Pulpit does social science research about clergy in the United States, and has full text publications on their web site such as the National Survey of Clergy and various Research Reports.

May 29, 2007  http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/  Oxyrhynchus Papyri Online. Online images and transcriptions of 100s of documents from the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Dated between 300 B.C. and A.D. 800, the documents include discarded books, scrolls, and other documents. Also Herculaneum Papyri are available. http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/papyri.html

May 18, 2007  http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk/kvk/kvk_en.html Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog allows users to simultaneously search national and some academic library catalogs from most European countries including Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, etc. as well as used book sellers.

May 11, 2007  http://www.oneplace.com offers many U.S. "Christian" radio broadcasts available for download, from the commercial broadcasting firm Salem Communications.

May 7, 2007  http://www.library.yale.edu/div/SouthAsia/  A guide to archival collections relating to American Protestant missionary activity in South Asia (including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, and Pakistan) - with a focus on the holdings of undergraduate liberal arts colleges in the United States.

April 27, 2007  http://www.etana.org/abzu/  Full text of many publications from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and other eBooks about the Ancient Near East.

April 13, 2007  Two Internet guides to Religion in China
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igphil.htm from Heidelberg University.
http://library.ust.hk/res/beyond/Asia/China/Religion/ from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

April 9, 2007 http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free peer reviewed current encyclopedia containing thousands of articles.

March 23, 2007 http://edwards.yale.edu/ The works of Jonathan Edwards online is a project to provide in electronic form the Yale edition of his works.  Access is free.  If you register, you can book mark pages, save your personal notes, etc.  At present only  two of the Yale edition books are available: Miscellanies (1373) and Sermons (418). 
http://www.ccel.org/search?category=books&qu=jonathan+Edwards Edwards major works are available in full text in 19th century editions from Calvin College.

March 19, 2007  Tutorials for students to gain skills in searching online databases.  The first three were developed by Union-PSCE library, and include some information specific to that library.
A video tutorial for using ATLA Religion Database: 
http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome/ATLATwo/VideoTable.htm
A text tutorial for ATLA Religion Database:
http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome/ATLATwo/PageA.htm
A text tutorial for Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts:
http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome/EBSCO/EBSCOA.htm
A video tutorial about EBSCO PsycINFO developed by William Badke: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/43721/6/PsycINFO.swf 

March 9, 2007 http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/  The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. The site also includes Targums, and many texts in Aramaic and Syriac, searchable by keyword, and other indexes. It was developed by Hebrew Union College; editors: Stephen A. Kaufman, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, with Prof. Michael Sokoloff, associate editor.

Feb 23, 2007  Websites relating to Film and Religion:
    Wabash Guide to Film and Religion
    Wabash Guide to Film reviews
    Amazing Grace - background from http://www.awesomestories.com/
    Amazing Grace - review from Hollywood Jesus

Feb 19, 2007  http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/pal/html  A collection of over 1,000 maps of Israel, Palestine, the holy land (1500-1920) from the Eran Laor Collection of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.

Feb 9, 2007 CEAL Internet Resources on Christianity in Korea The Council on East Asian Libraries offers a selection of sites including denominations, universities, bookstores, and Christian Korean search engines.

Feb 2, 2007  - http://religionlink.org  ReligionLink is a resource to help journalists with background information about religion.  It includes information about bioethics, clergy abuse, social issues, religious holidays, characteristics of movements and groups, arts and entertainment, etc.

Jan. 24, 2007 - http://www.ixtheo.de/  Index Theologicus provides citations for European theological periodicals.  Developed by the Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, it contains citations from over 600 periodical titles, plus festschrift and congresses. Index Theologicus compliments the ATLA Religion Database, adding more European titles.

Jan. 12, 2007 - Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission since 1900
http://resources.library.yale.edu/dissertations/  compiled Yale Divinity School Library, this citation database includes missions-related Th.D., Ph.D., D.Min. and D.Miss. English-language dissertations focusing on missions and Christianity outside the "West."  It's core began with the print bibliographies published in the July 1983, July 1993, and July 2003 issues of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.  It is much expanded for the online version.

Jan. 2, 2007 - Full text of older books from Microsoft and Google
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books Microsoft offers over 50,000 out-of-copyright books (pre-1924).  The full text is searchable.   PDF documents can be downloaded.
And http://books.google.com/ Google offers thousands of scanned books.  The full text is searchable.  Most out-of-copyright books (pre-1924) can be read in their entirety on-line and some downloaded as PDF. "Snippets" from in-copyright books can be viewed, and sometime a page or two by permission of the publisher.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts Another search engine of free full text books on the web.

Dec. 18, 2006 http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/ Over 1800 texts and tunes from 21 Anglican hymnals worldwide.  And http://www.cyberhymnal.org/ Over 5800 Christian hymns and Gospel songs.

Dec. 8, 2006 http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018443097211386924752%3Aluwi5uy2qbe 
Free full text Theological Journals Search is a custom Google search of theological journals which offer full text for free on the web.  The list of sites searched is compiled by Sally Jo Shelton, Faculty Facilitator/Cataloging Librarian at Oral Roberts University.  In addition to free journals, students can often find higher quality full text through the  hundreds of full text journals which Fuller Library pays for.  Start with our databases page to search for full text articles in these journals.

Dec. 1, 2006 http://www.textweek.com/scripture.htm
Textweek  provides links for helping preachers prepare sermons. It is created by Jenee Woodard. It includes links to other sermons, online commentaries and articles, art work, related films, children's resources, prayers and other liturgy suggestions, etc. The art work section is helpful for finding images to illustrate PowerPoint presentations. Though the site is primarily organized by the common lectionary; also there is a scripture index and seasonal topics.

Nov. 27, 2006 http://www.religion-online.org/
Religion Online offers for free the full text of 5,700 chapters and articles, and 200 books.  The writers are recognized theologians and scholars. The texts are organized by topic. The titles may be searched by keyword.

Nov. 17, 2006 http://www.pewforum.org/
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life offers poles and reports about religion and public affairs. It covers: bioethics, the death penalty, gay marriage, politics, public schools, social welfare, the law, and world affairs. An October 2006 pole and report covered Pentecostalism.

Nov. 10, 2006 Spanish language citation databases
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/index.jsp  DIALNET is a citation database for articles and book reviews in Spanish provided by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and Universidad de La Rioja. It covers over 3300 journal titles; here is the list of the religious journals covered.
http://europa.sim.ucm.es/compludoc/  COMPLUDOC is a citation database for general articles and book reviews in Spanish provided by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Nov. 6, 2006 http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/csca.htm
The web page of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Singapore, Trinity Theological College provides full text, bibliographies, and links to help scholars studying Christianity in Asia.

Oct 27, 2006 http://www.atla.com/digitalresources
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
CDRI Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative includes thousands of images of sacred art, architecture and portraits scanned by American Theological Library Association libraries. There are topical groupings:
    Ancient Near East;
    Architecture, art, iconography
    Manuscripts, Texts, Sermons
    Missions, World Religion

Oct 20, 2006 http://www.acts.twu.ca/LBR/research500.htm 
Research Strategies: an online course
This syllabus guides graduate students through the process of writing a research paper and offers helpful instructions on using library catalogs, online databases, and the internet, for doing graduate level research. 

Another helpful guide especially for "international" students is
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/research_essays.htm
Writing research essays in North American academic institutions – a guide for students of all nations 
Both sites were written by William Badke, Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University with primary responsibility for information resources and research training at Associated Canadian Theological Schools.

Oct 13, 2006 http://worldebookfair.com/  World eBook Fair offers 1/2 million out of copyright books available for searching and downloading. They are free for the month of October 2006.

Oct 9, 2006 http://www.pctii.org/cybertab.html  Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research
A peer-reviewed online journal, covering the academic research into the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions, using historical, social science, and exegetical disciplines. It is indexed by the ATLA Religion Database.

Sept. 29, 2006 http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk  British Library Images Online
Search through thousands of images scanned from holdings in the British Library. See Bible manuscript fragments and intricate illuminations from medieval books.  Images (72dpi) for personal or school use may be used free of charge; so this is a good source for PowerPoint for church or seminary presentations.

Sept. 26, 2006 http://www.thearda.com  The Association of Religion Data Archives
This site includes over 350 data files of social science research surveys about religion, primarily from the U.S. It includes poll information about denominations, church attendance, religious beliefs, political opinions, etc. The data can be downloaded and used in various combinations.

Sept. 18, 2006 http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/korea/resources/kda-taylor.html The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection, photographs from Methodist missionaries to Korea, 1908 to about 1922.

Other Miscellaneous Internet Resources

ttp://www.bautz.de/bbkl/ Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), an important biographical encyclopedia in German.

http://www.netministries.org/Bbasics/BBwords.htm Bible words pronunciation guide

http://dictionnaire-montesquieu.ens-lsh.fr/index.php?id=184 Dictionnaire électronique Montesquieu

http://www.mislinks.org  MisLinks is a directory offering links to resources for missionaries, mission pastors, teachers, and researchers, students of mission and mission agencies.  It is maintained by Scott Moreau of Wheaton College and Mike O'Rear of Global Mapping, International.

http://www.christianleaders.org Articles by various authors and interactive exercises on pastoral and Christian leadership, maintained by Scott Cormode.

http://www.umi.com/products_umi/dissertations/pqdt.shtml ProQuest Dissertations, a small subset which are freely available.

http://www.openbible.info/geo/ Find places named in the Bible on Google Earth.

Friedberg's Corpus iuris canonici  Volume 1; Volume 2

http://www.actakoreana.org/ Academia Koreana of Keimyung University.

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/RTMmanuallinks.html Rescuing the Memory of our Peoples: Archives Manual in English, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili.  This manual was prepared by Yale Divinity School.

http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ Research and scholarly papers selected and deposited by the University of California.

http://www.historyworld.net/ Search timelines and short encyclopedia like articles on historical topics.  Created by Bamber Gascoigne, noted for his historical documentaries on TV.

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway  or  http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search  These sites search UMI/Proquest for dissertations (mostly American, mostly doctoral).  Excerpts may be previewed for free; the full text may be purchased for $32 each.

http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/hlsi/adv.stm A database indexing sermons in books held by Calvin College and Theological Seminary library.  Indexes by author, title, keyword, and scripture passage.  It does not include the full text of the sermons, it just help you find the sermons within books.

http://www.heqigallery.com Website of He Qi, a contemporary Chinese Christian artist.

http://apcat.atla.com/star/presonline_login.htm  includes tens of thousands of religious and theological serials, monographs, and archives that have been preserved on microform by ATLA.

http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm  Research in Ministry (RIM) is a catalog of U.S. doctor of ministry (D.Min.) dissertations.  A citation and abstract of their dissertation must be submitted by the author.

http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/  Oxyrhynchus Papyri Online.  Online images and transcriptions of 100s of documents from the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus.  Dated between 300 B.C. and A.D. 800, the documents include discarded books, scrolls, and other documents.

http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/ Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts, 16 of 65 scanned.

http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Daily/skins/LATimes/navigator.asp?BP=OK&AW=1145329488155 search the current week of the Los Angeles Times newspaper

http://www.atthispoint.net  Online journal from Columbia Theological Seminary.

http://www.hclmbc.org Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia Database.

PC(U.S.A.) database Index to Foreign Missionary Personnel Files
see also: http://www.history.pcusa.org/collect/fmi.html

http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/index.html Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Source Documents

http://www.idcpublishers.com/

http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome/ATLATwo/PageA.htm#Screen (HTML version)  http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/welcome/ATLATwo/VideoTable.htm (Flash/Video version) Tutorial for ATLA Religion Database; most information in the tutorial is generally applicable, yet some material is specific to Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.)

http://www.teknia.com/index.php?page=fonts Free Hebrew and Greek font from Teknia Software

http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html Free Hebrew and Greek fonts from Bibleworks

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/  Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

www.jtslibrarytreasures.org Books and manuscripts from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary

http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC  UNESCO Institute for Statistics

http://ca.rand.org/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi   California Statistics

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ World Fact Book

http://www.atla.com/tsig/ATSRW/catalogedsiteslist.html Important web sites picked by ATLA librarians

http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/hhussey/clace/CLACE00A.HTM Henry Hussey, More than half a century of Colonial life and Christian experience

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Greek and Latin images, source materials, and California source materials

http://online.uni-hd.de/ Heidelberg University journal devoted to studying religion on the internet

http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/  Index to diaries, interviews, etc. on the internet

www.mscottpeck.com  Personal site of the late author M. Scott Peck