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PeRT (PRTS Electronic Research Tool)
Public Domain Library: A collection of digital books on our student computers in the library. Hundreds of books of theology and history have been downloaded from online public domain sources and organized by period and author. This collection is especially strong in the Puritan writers. It contains nineteenth-century reprints of the works of major Puritan authors like John Owen and John Flavel. It also includes many early editions as well, such as Samuel Bolton’s True Bounds of Christian Freedom (1656) and Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections (1746). But it also holds patristic, medieval, Reformation, and later texts as well. Unlike bare text files, these are digital images of published books and therefore are citable for academic research. In many cases the pdf files can also be searched for words and phrases. None of these books was downloaded from services such as EEBO requiring a license or fee. All the books in this digital library can be freely copied by students and visitors for their personal use and research.
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network-TREN is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. ThM dissertations from Westminster Theological Seminary are available (for purchase) from 1984 to current. DMin projects from WTS are available from1986 onward. TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies.
UMI Search dissertations available from the University of Michigan’s Proquest database. Email suggested purchases to laura.mustafa@puritanseminary.org
Lexicons, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries
The Bible Encyclopedia includes online atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, concordance, pictures, and topical Bible. Evangelical Dictionary of Bible Theology (Baker), International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), and Liddell Scott Jones Greek-English Lexicon
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
CCEL is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education. This site reaches several million users each year.
Digital Library of Abraham Kuyper
Digital Library of Abraham Kuyper is a joint venture of Princeton Theological Seminary and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and contains full-text books, manuscripts, and archival material relating to the life of Abraham Kuyper. Searches can be limited by date, format (books, chapters, manuscripts, etc.), language, and genre (such as sermons or devotional material).
Early English Books Online
EEBO contains more than 125,000 full-text titles drawn from the The Short-Title Catalogue I and II (spanning the years 1475-1700), The Thomason Tracts, The Early English Books Tract Supplements. Printing, reading, or downloading are easy tasks in this database. It contains over 22 million digital page images of virtually every work printed in the English language as well as works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies from 1473-1700 in any language. NOTE: Off-campus Mac users should use Firefox or Chrome instead of Safari.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO contains a growing number of standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books produced by a group called the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) made up of more than 150 libraries worldwide. These books are transcribed and the text is marked up from the millions of page images in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex’s Evans Early American Imprints. This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. Currently, only a portion of the contents are freely available. However, all of the Text Creation Partnership’s work will eventually be released to the public domain for anyone to use.”
First Source
First Source is a collection of scholarly digital text archives (beta version) such as the Works of John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Melanchthon, George Whitefield, and others developed by the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access for both public domain and copyrighted content from a variety of sources, including Google, Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Currently, the digital collection contains 8,219,655 total volumes, both books and periodicals. Search the catalog for subjects like Puritans, Psalms, Sermons, and Jonathan Edwards to retrieve full-text books and journal articles online.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a free web resource offering access to digital views or downloads of a wide variety of documents , including books hosted by Google Books, plus audio and video resources. Some of the books are simply images; others have searchable text. It is a helpful means for obtaining complete digital images of books published from the seventeenth century and onward.
The Net Bible
Net Bible is an excellent tool especially for those learning the original languages since it has the notes of the Net Bible integrated along with a very useful Greek/Hebrew interlinear tool.
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. The wide range of materials available in OAIster includes: digitized (scanned) books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts, digital text, audio files (wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information), and theses and research papers.
Online Christian Library
Online Christian Library is a theological virtual library for Bible students and scholars.
Post-Reformation Digital Library
Post-Reformation Digital Library is a free website hosted by Calvin College’s Hekman Library which presents links to digital books in English, Latin, and other languages. It specializes in theological documents published in the Early Modern Era (late fifteenth to eighteenth centuries). Thousands of Reformed, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anabaptist, Arminian, and Socinian works are available for digital viewing or download. PRDL links to Google Books, the Internet Archive, and universities around the world to put antiquarian texts at your fingertips.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Project Gutenberg contains a large collection of books related to Christianity and church history.
Sieutel tot de Nadere Reformatie
Pietas Bronnenarchief contains a digital version of books that appeared from the end of the 16th century on in order to promote piety among Dutch Reformed people and their society. These sources come from both public and private collections and are freely available for research purposes.
Westminster Assembly Project
Westminster Assembly Project For more than 350 years most of the original manuscript minutes of the Westminster Assembly have remained unpublished. These official minutes record the debates of the English, Scottish and French theologians at plenary sessions of the Assembly as well as the Assembly’s inner workings and resolutions. The large three-volume manuscript of the minutes is housed in Dr Williams’s Library, London. These volumes contain 550,000 words and span the years 1643 to 1652. While much of the third volume was published in the late nineteenth century, it was based on an imperfect transcript. This project intends to publish all three volumes of the original manuscript minutes in Dr Williams’s Library, in addition to the recently discovered papers of the Assembly. The publication of The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly will more than triple the available sources on the Assembly and will fill a major gap in our understanding of the Assembly and its documents.
Works of Jonathan Edwards
WJE contains the online, searchable Works of Edwards from the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
