Religious Studies Web Guide
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Multi-Religion - Libraries and Archives
Mega Catalogues:
- ArchiveGrid - brings together information about documents in over 1,000 archives
- British Library Catalogue - over 10 million books, journals, reports etc. Also British Library Archives and Mansucript Collections
- CNII books - union catalogue of Japanese college and university libraries produced by the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. Can be searched in English
- Cross Asia - searches European and Asian resources for books and articles
- Digital Public Library of America - over 18 million items from libraries, archives and museums
- European Library - searches content of European National Libraries - can also browse by discipline
- Gateway Bayern - searches over 25 million titles
- GVK - over 43 million records from more than 500 German libraries
- IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities -"unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 121 university libraries across the country"
- Internet Archive
- Internet Library sub-Saharan Africa - great resource for religion in Africa - includes the Africa catalogue of GIGA Hamburg, African Studies Centre, Leiden and Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden
- The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue - union catalogue of European and World libraries.
- LGBT Religious Collections in Archives in the US and Beyond
- Library Hub Discover- Search a database of 172 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues which includes the British Library. Replaces COPAC.
- MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library - "provides access to electronic fulltext materials or electronic bibliographical records of printed materials and manuscripts." Searches a number of European Middle Eastern research institutes pincluding German Institue of Global and Area Studies, the Zentrum Moderner Orient and the ULB Halle.
- Merhav - searches all resources at the National Library of Israel including Israel Union Catalog, The Israel Union List of Serials and Qiryat Sefer (National Bibliography of Israel)
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
- Religious Archives in Canada - from "Canadian Resources on the Internet" compiled by Cheryl Avery and Steve Billinton
- Sudoc - is "the French collective catalogue produced by the libraries and documentation centres of higher education and research . It contains more than 12 million bibliographic records describing all kinds of documents (books, theses, journals, electronic resources, audio-visual documents, microforms, maps, partitions, manuscripts and old books.) Lastly, Sudoc's mission is to list all dissertations/theses produced in France."
- Swisscovery - union catalog of over 470 academic libraries in Switzerland
- Union Catalog of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers - includes books and journal articles
- WorldCat - search thousands of library collections
Specific Libraries and Archives:
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Beinecke Library, Yale - Search the Beinecke Digital Manuscript Collections / Search the Papyrus Collections / Search the Medieval and Renaissance MS Collection
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France - over 8 million items published since the 16th century
- Collège de France Library - extensive holdings for Buddhism and other Asian religions with holdings including Institut d'Etudes Tibétaines, Institut d'Etudes Indiennes, Institut d'Etudes Coréennes, Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises and Institut d'Etudes Japonaises. Indexes books, articles and theses.
- Harvard - can also search specific holdings of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library . Hollis for Archival Discovery provides access to archival and manuscript collections of Harvard through a search of the finding aids.
- Ku Leuven - The Maurits Sabbe Library is "a first class, internationally -renowned library in the domain of theology and religious studies"
- Leiden University Main Catalogue - Note you can filter search results to open access works - See "open access" under Availability filter
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Integrated Database - index to books, articles, book sections as well as photos, museum and archival resources. Good source to locate research resources on Ancient Near Eastern religions (Egyptian, Zoroastianism etc.), Biblical Studies and early Christianity, and early history of Islam and Judaism.
- SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies)Library - "collections reflect the British interaction with Africa and Asia" - include archives of missionaries and unpublished manuscripts in many languages including Arabic and south, south-east and east asian languages. Selected material has been digitized.
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