Catholic Studies: Library Resources for On- and Off-Campus Students

See also Religious Studies Research Guide

Catholic Megasites | Guides to the Net | Catholic Reference Sources | Sources for Catholic Texts | Finding Books | Finding Tools for Commercially Published Articles in Magazines and Journals

Comments, corrections, and suggested additions or deletions from this page are welcomed by kristen.smith@loras.edu. Assistance is available at the same address, or call 563-588-7042. For interlibrary loan of materials (books, articles, etc.), logon to the library's interlibrary loan system.

CATHOLIC MEGASITES:

• Catholic Information Network (CIN)
• CatholiCity
• EWTN Global Catholic Network
• New Advent
• PetersNet

GUIDES TO THE NET, WEB and PRINT:

• Internet Researcher: A Guide to Religious Studies and Philosophy Resources
• Theology and Religious Studies
• Bioethics Resources on the Web
• Internet Theology Resources

CATHOLIC REFERENCE SOURCES:

• Catholic College Search
• Catholic Educator's Resource Center (CERC)
• Catholic Hierarchy: Its Bishops and Dioceses, Current and Past
• Catholic Press Directory Ref 016.071 C286M
• The Catholic Worker Movement
• Catholic.net
• Liturgy & Life Artifacts, Boston College
• New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law REF 262.94 C8
• The Official Catholic Directory Ref 282.7301 C286
• The Church in the 21st Century
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Exchange

SOURCES FOR CATHOLIC TEXTS:

• Documents of he Roman Catholic Church, from RC.net (Documents of Vatican II, Encyclicals and Other Papal Documents, Vatican Statements)
• The Holy See: Vatican documents
• Catholic Oasis--free books, articles, prayers, documents
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
• Summa Theologica via New Advent
• Catholic Social Justice Teachings from the Archdiocese of Minneapolis/St.Paul
• The On-Line Books Page: thousands of books in the public domain
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive

BIBLICAL INFORMATION:

• The Anchor Bible Dictionary Ref 220.3 F87 v.
• The Eerdmans Analytical Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible Ref 220.520423 W58
• Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible Ref 220.3 Ee72
• The New Jerome Biblical Commentary Ref 220.7 B81
• The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Ref 220.2 St88
• The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible Ref 220.9 M56
• Eikon Image Database for Biblical Studies
• Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
• Bible Gateway
• Bible in MP3 Audio Format

FINDING BOOKS:

• NetLibrary [online books]
• The On-Line Books Page: thousands of books in the public domain
• Loras Library Online Catalog
• Other useful catalogs
• WorldCat (books and other materials in libraries worldwide)

FINDING TOOLS FOR COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS:

• ATLA Religion Database
  From the American Theological Library Association; indexes publications in all scholarly fields of religion.
• Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Ref 282.05 C286P
• Academic Search Complete (full-text articles drawn from academic journals in the social sciences, humanities, general sciences, multi-cultural studies, education, and more)
• ArticleFirst (index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals, with direct link to interlibrary loan service)
• JSTOR: A Fully-Searchable Archive of Scholarly Journals

11 March 2008
Kristen Smith, Information Services Librarian
kristen.smith@loras.edu