Search website
Additional search facilities
- Anglicans Online
search
AO Search allows you to search just the AO pages or an Anglican Global
search that includes nearly 33,000 pages. AO also has an interesting
explanation of how the search engine works.
- Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a free service that provides answers to the most minute
of questions, and directs you to the websites with the information. Enter your questions
in plain language.
- Ecumenism.net Bible Search tools and resource list
- Search the Christian web with
CrossSearch.com
- Search interchurch families / Recherche foyers
mixtes
Search the following websites of the Interchurch Families
International Network (IFIN):
- Search the internet with the Open
Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is an index, not a search engine. Users can
register as editors and contribute to building the largest and most comprehensive
human-edited index of the web.
- Cosmic Fantasia
is an phpODP
implementation of the Open Directory Project. Focusing on alternative news, social
justice, and environmental sustainability.
- Recherche
le site internet du Saint-Siège avec Mondosearch.com
Recherche the site Vatican.va en six langues. Plus de 60,000 documents sont disponibles
dans les différents index du site internet du Saint-Siège.
- Search
the Holy See website with Mondosearch.com
Searches the Vatican.va website in six languages. Over 60,000 documents on The Holy See's
website are presently indexed.
- Search the Live Web •
Technorati's weblog search engine
"Technorati lets you search sites that update with extreme frequency, like blogs and
news. Unlike other engines, our results are individual posts (portions of pages), so
they're more specific. Search results are listed newest to oldest, and are often only
minutes old!"
Journal articles
- See our "Academic Journals Online" page.
- eLibrary - Research without legwork
"eLibrary is a comprehensive digital archive for information
seekers of all ages. Users can do business research, use it for homework, get background
materials for term papers, find out about both current and historical events, and more,
all in one vast database designed for both depth of content and simplicity of interface.
With its one-stop research access, subscribers ask questions in plain English, and
eLibrary searches a billion words and thousands of images and quickly returns the
information requested. eLibrary aggregates hundreds and hundreds of full-text periodicals,
nine international newswires, classic books, hundreds of maps, thousands of photographs,
as well as major works of literature, art and reference."
- FindArticles.com
"FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that
you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from
more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics,
including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online
collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in
its entirety and printed at no cost. For detailed information on how to use FindArticles,
consult our Help
tutorial. FindArticles is a content-distribution partnership between LookSmart, which
provides the search infrastructure, and the Gale Group, which provides the published
editorial content."
Encyclopedias
Libraries
Individual library catalogues
- Library of Congress
"The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world,
with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The
collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million
photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts... The Library receives some
22,000 items each working day and adds approximately 10,000 items to the collections
daily."
- Library of Congress
Z39.50 gateway
Access to the LC catalog and those of numerous other public and
university libraries. Z39.50 is an international (ISO 23950) standard defining a protocol
for computer-to-computer information retrieval. Z39.50 makes it possible for a user in one
system to search and retrieve information from other computer systems (that have also
implemented Z39.50) without knowing the search syntax that is used by those other systems.
- Saskatoon Theological
Union
"The Saskatoon Theological Union emphasizes works of a
theological nature. The STU includes: The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad; Lutheran
Theological Seminary; and St. Andrew's College. The books of the St. Stephen's College
Reference Library (University of Alberta) in Edmonton, AB are also included in this
database.
- Toronto School of Theology
TST consists of Emmanuel, Knox, Regis, St. Augustine's, St. Michael's,
Trinity, and Wycliffe colleges. The seven TST libraries are integrated into the University of Toronto library system.
The TST libraries also make a substantial financial contribution to the theological
collection at the U of T's Robarts library. Affiliated colleges (Conrad Grebel College,
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, McMaster Divinity College, and the Institute for Christian
Studies) are not included in this catalogue. The combined TST/UofT collection is extensive
in both breadth and depth. It covers all theological and cognate disciplines in English,
French, German, Italian, and Spanish. There are also large selections in Russian, Greek,
Dutch, and many other languages.
- Union Theological Seminary
Library
- Unione Romana Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche
(URBE)
A combined catalogue for the theological libraries of the
ecclesiastical universities in Rome. Additional agencies and institutes are also listed.
- Unione Romana Biblioteche
Scientifiche (URBS)
A combined catalogue for the non-theological libraries of the
ecclesiastical universities in Rome. Additional agencies and institutes are also listed.
- University of Toronto
Libraries see the Toronto School of Theology above
- Vanderbilt
Divinity Library
- World Council of
Churches Library
This library, at the WCC headquarters in Geneva, shares a common
catalogue with the library of the WCC's Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. The catalogue is
available over the web, and it is possible to request books for borrowing anywhere in the
world.
Book Reviews
Bibliographies
Research guides
Research guides are resources prepared to help students and others in the intial stages
of research in a particular field. They are not intended to be exhaustive, or to replace
the advice and guidance of teachers and professors. These research guides contain a basic
bibliography of reference works and other research tools.
