Resources for studying theology

Journals

Online guide to journals in theology: https://holgerszesnat.wordpress.com/journals/researching-journals/

Lists of Journals

• http://people.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journals.html
• https://holgerszesnat.wordpress.com/journals/free-online-journals/
• GlobeTheoLib
• http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles.php

Search Tools

• http://search.ebscohost.com/
• http://www.jstor.org/
• https://scholar.google.com/
• Theological Journals Search (Google Custom Search)

Pacific Journals

• Melanesian Journal of Theology

 

Journal Rankings in Religion and Theology

• Journal Rankings on Religious Studies – SCImago

 

The Internet

The Patron Saint of the Internet: Isidore of Seville

 

 

Tutorials on Internet Searching

 To develop and hone skills in assessing internet sources

• http://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
• http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Boolean and Refined Searching

• https://library.uaf.edu/ls101-boolean
• https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en&ref_topic=3081620

Search Engines

• Google
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

Specific Research Tools

• http://www.worldcat.org/
• http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/
• https://archive.org/
  • Some Guides to theology on archive.org
    • http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2009/03/fathers-of-church-series-index-page.html
    • https://archive.org/details/Princeton

Monitoring Tools

• https://www.google.com/alerts
• http://www.changedetection.com

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia
• TIP: for research purposes, read Wikipedia article from the bottom up.

Online Books

Reading Books

• http://amazon.com/
• https://books.google.com/

Buying Books

Meta search

http://www.bookfinder.com/

Online Bookshops with Free Shipping

• http://www.betterworldbooks.com
• http://www.bookdepository.co.uk
• http://www.bookdepository.com
• http://www.bookshop.kennys.ie
• http://usegoodbooks.com

Other Guides

• http://kinderlibrary.libguides.com/content.php?pid=609234&sid=5032223
• http://www.smu.edu/Bridwell/Find/ReligionTheologyWebsites
• http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=17512
• http://commons.ptsem.edu/
• http://www.religion-online.org/

Handy Online Tools

• http://textmechanic.com/
• http://maori.typeit.org/
• online content readability tests
  • http://grammark.org/dist/#/
  • http://www.expresso-app.org/
  • http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
  • http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp