Free Online Books and Articles

Unfortunately, there is no one place to find a complete list on online books and articles.  Some online books and journals may be found through general search engines like Google, but not all.  Here are some additional places to look:

Religious Electronic Journals (from Sarah Lipton)

Religious Electronic Journals (Wabash Center)

Online Reference Works (Wabash Center)

Online Texts Collections (Wabash Center)

 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://scholar.google.com - Searches mostly for articles, some are free; some have links from which you may purchase the article.

http://www.ulib.org  The 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.

http://www.google.com If you have a citation for an article searching by article title can sometimes lead to a free PDF copy, such as on an author’s webpage.  Searching by journal title using Google can sometimes help you discover links to publishers who provide free access to tables of contents, abstracts, or access for a fee.

Find Articles http://www.findarticles.com/  Offers free and pay-per-article searching.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/  Many free full-text articles, and some for a fee, from journals like Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Journal for the Study of the New Historical Jesus, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

http://magportal.com Search for free articles from popular journals such as First Things.

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.

http://www.archive.org/details/texts Open Content Alliance, and other provide texts and another search engine of free full text books on the web.

http://worldebookfair.com/  World eBook Fair aggregates1/2 million out of copyright books available for searching and downloading.  (Charges $8.95 per year.)

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.

http://www.loc.gov/chronicalingamerica "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.

http://www.cdnc.ucr.edu/ California Digital Newspaper Collection includes the full text of the San Francisco Call, the Amador Ledger, the Imperial Valley Press, and the Los Angeles Herald from 1900-1910.  More will be added from 1880-1910.

University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu Another search engine of free full text books on the web.

Digital Book Index  Another search engine of free full text books on the web.

Project Gutenberg Over 20,000 free, out-of-copyright e-books.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library  offers hundreds of classic Christian books.  Hosted by Calvin College.

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.  Note: the content at this site may be different from the print versions.

http://www.historyworld.net/ HistoryWorld offers over 400 popular articles.

Pitt Latin American Series, full text of many books in the series are available free on the web.

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.

http://www.askasia.org/teachers/essays/ AskAsia offers simple, accurate background information; designed mainly for K-12 teachers, yet can provide introductions for others.

eScholarship Repository http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ Articles from University of California libraries.

Bartleby.com  Includes the Columbia Encyclopedia and other reference books, the Harvard Classics and poetry collections.

Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)

Making of America (University of Michigan)  Includes the subject areas of  religion, psychology, American history, sociology and education, with an online collection of 1,600 nineteenth century books and 50,000 journal articles.

http://www.atla.com/digitalresources ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI) 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.

International Etext Projects (Linköping Univ.)