Early English Books Online

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains 100,000 of the over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).  Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.  Full images and full text for some select works. 

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation includes full-text works of Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries. Document types include catechisms, scholarly treatises, papal documents, theological works, and devotional works. Project editors are Simon Ditchfield at the University of York and Brad Gregory at the University of Notre Dame. As of August 2018, the database includes 845 titles by 277 authors. Purchased from Alexander Street Press. 

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

Digital Library of Classical Protestant Texts includes 1,279 titles by 274 Western European authors from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, 1500-1700. Provided are facsimile images and full-text, searchable by keywords, scripture references, and subject index. The works include theological writings as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations. Purchased from Alexander Street Press.

Dissertations & Theses Global (including Fuller Theological Seminary)

Dissertations & Theses Global by ProQuest provides access to more than 1.2 million full-text theses and dissertations, including those from Fuller Theological Seminary, available for download in PDF format, together with 2.7 million searchable citations to theses from around the world from 1861 to the present. Most of these theses were written to fulfill doctoral degrees. The database offers full-text for most of the theses added from 1997 onwards and some retrospective full-text coverage for older theses. Approximately 70,000 new full-text theses are added to the database each year. Provided by ProQuest, formerly known as UMI (University Microfilm Inc.) 

Credo Reference

This database indexes full text articles from over 1000 encyclopedias and reference books from major publishers such as Cambridge, Harvard, Routledge, Britannica, including 50+ reference works on Christianity. Major titles include: the Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Dictionary of the Theological Interpretation of the Bible, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, the IVP Bible Dictionary Series, and the Routledge and Blackwell Religion Companions. 

Chinese Recorder

Chinese Recorder contains the complete and searchable archive of the The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1868-1941). This online database contains important historical records of the Church in China accompanied by rare photos, maps, drawings and statistics. The journal text is almost exclusively in English, but publication introductions and editorial notes are in Chinese. Published by the National Taiwan University Press.  

Cambridge Companions Online

Part of the Cambridge Core database of Cambridge University Press publications, this collection includes the complete series of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion, 217 titles, along with 380 titles of Cambridge History Companions covering a broad range of historical periods and topics. The platform also supports over 1100 additional eBooks and 60+ academic journals. 

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection-Series 2

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection-Series 2 consists of nearly 15,000 titles published from 1894 through 1923. It presents a comprehensive picture of religion in America at the turn of the century. Subjects addressed include the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans. images. (American Theological Library Association) eBooks, History, Texts & Biography, Theology and Religion

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection-Series 1

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection-Series 1 provides more than 15,000 e-Books from 1800 through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions, and a few earlier publications. It includes many volumes documenting the recovery of languages used during the biblical era and provides an in-depth view of the way that interest in, and knowledge of, biblical languages emerged during the nineteenth century, an important foundation for today’s study and understanding of biblical languages. It also contains titles in Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac.  images. (American Theological Library Association) 

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid is the ‘WorldCat’ for finding aids of historical archives.  It includes descriptions of historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.  Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed over two million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid.  Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about these collections and contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials.