Library Guides: Religious Studies: Open AccessMaterials

Open Access Journals

These are some of the many Religious Studies open access journals available. Check the Directory of Open Access Journals for more.

The Journal of Southern Religion
The first scholarly journal devoted to the study of religion in the American South.
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
It is a semi-annual journal dedicated to the academic study of Japanese religions
American Journal of Islam and Society
Established in 1984, the American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) is an open-access, biannual, double-blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal with global reach, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide.

Links Galore
List of links to digital collections of books of interest to classicists, medievalists, etc. These works are in the public domain via Google Books, archive.org, HathiTrust, and others.

NOTE: An index typically lets you search for bibliographic citations on a topic. The full-text of the material is not included in the index.

Index Theologicus
It indexes more than 600 periodicals, Festschriften, and congress publications
RAMBI
It is a selective bibliography of academic articles covering all of the fields of Jewish studies as well as the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of peer-reviewed open access journals from many disciplines including Religious Studies.
Review of Biblical Literature
The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields.
Theological Commons (Princeton Theological Seminary)
The Theological Commons is a digital library of 79,332 books and periodicals on theology and religion, including 29,730 volumes from the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
A digital library that provides free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts.
biblicalstudies.org.uk
Free online Books, Articles and Journals (as of June 2018, more than 32,000 articles) available free for download, though donations to support the site are solicited. Strength is in Anglican, Brethren, Pentecostal, and United Reformed Church.