Study Resources
Welcome to the Northwest Seminary & College Study Resources page! Listed below are resources available to Staff, Students and Faculty. Click on the link or expand the category you are looking for to view the description and links to free resources. Resources in each category are listed in alphabetical order.
If you want or need assistance in your research, please do not hesitate to contact library services here.
EBSCOhost
Northwest students have access to two EBSCO databases - a database of monographs and academic papers and an e-book library. Both databases can be accessed here.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library for the intellectually curious including resources in a variety of disciplines. As a Northwest student, you have access to JSTOR here.
Follow the link, click "login", and enter the following credentials:
Username: northwest
Password: library24
Directory of Open Access Journals
This community-curated, non-profit online directory indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, scholarly peer-reviewed journals.
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Free Logos Training for Seminary Students & Faculty
Learn to use your Logos Bible Software to the fullest extent.
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Google Books
A digital index of open access full-text books and book previews.
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Google Scholar
This search engine searches the internet for scholarly and grey literature.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive offers access to freely accessible books and texts, movies, software, music, archived websites, and more.
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Open Access Digital Theological Library
A large database of open access theological and religious studies resources.
AAR Recommended Reading Lists
Browse biblical, theological, and religious studies readings lists by subject. Each list recommends two to five books considered influential, pivotal, seminal, or otherwise important publications in their field.
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ATLA List of Websites on Religion
An annotated collection of web resources for the study of religion.
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Best Bible Commentaries
Best Bible Commentaries collects reviews from professors, scholars, journals and other reviewers and ranks Bible commentaries based on these reviews. Best Bible Commentaries allows the user to view other user reviews on each of the commentaries ranked on the site as well as basic publication, description and access information.
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Bible Study Tools
A collection of Bible translations, commentaries, and other Bible study resources.
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Books, articles and other resources for biblical studies.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A digital library of classic Christian works.
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Denver Journal
The Denver Journal aims to provide reviews on most major published works on biblical and theological studies and other related fields.
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Directory of Open Access Books
A directory that provides access to over 89,000 open access, academic peer-reviewed books.
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Early Christian Writings
A database of Christian writings from the first, second, and early-third centuries.
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Early Church Fathers
A database of harder to find early church/church father works.
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Electronic Journal List
The Electronic Journals Library is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online.
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Faithlife e-Books
Get a free e-book for your Logos library every month.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.
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Loeb Classic Library
Database of classic Greek and Latin works.
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New Advent
A database of early church/church father works.
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OAPEN
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books.
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Online Church History Resources
A list of church history websites and resources curated by Union Presbyterian Seminary.
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Online Subject Guide
A directory for links and resources within a specific subject area.
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Open Library of Humanities
Funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.
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OpenDOAR
Quality-assured, global directory of open access repositories.
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Oxford Biblical Studies Online
A comprehensive list of websites featuring biblical history, texts, and interpretations.
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Project Gutenberg
A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
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Project Wittenberg
Project Wittenberg contains works by and about Martin Luther, as well as some works by Lutheran scholars.
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Religion Online
A library of religious studies resources.
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Society of Biblical Literature
Founded in 1880, the SBL provides access to a wide variety of Biblical literature including books, other websites, and journals.
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SSRN
Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks.
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The Bible Project
A collection of online videos and resources for Bible study in over 50 different languages.
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Theology Commons
A digital library of over 130,000 resources on theology and religion.
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Tyndale Reading Rooms
Browse extensive reading lists according to subject.
Academic Writing and Research Resources
Learning to write in an academic manner and conducting research can be daunting and challenging tasks. Below are some useful resources on academic research processes and academic writing.
Academic Writing Phrasebank
This resource for academic writers provides examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of academic writing. The Academic Writing Phrasebank gives advice on how to refer to sources in an academic paper, how to write introductions and conclusions, and more!
Advice to Writers
As a digital repository of writing resources, Advice to Writers contains short articles on writing and links to other writing support resources including books, articles, and useful websites.
Common Errors in English Usage
Authored by Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University, Common Errors in English Usage provides a list of commonly misspelled English words and short phrases.
Dictionary.com
Launched in 1995, this online dictionary makes sure you are using the right word in the right place. Thesaurus.com is also easily accessible from Dictionary.com.
Internet Public Library
Browse resources by subject and search for online and offline versions books.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
In addition to functioning as an English dictionary and thesaurus, the Merriam-Webster dictionary also provides links to other resources including English to Spanish translation services.
Online Etymology Dictionary
This online, free dictionary provides histories of the meaning and definitions of English Words.
The Purdue Owl Writing Lab includes tips on how to use citation generators responsibly, and more. Purdue also has easy to use citation guides for the Chicago, APA, AMA, ASA, IEEE, and MLA style systems.
Accessible through a browser or the WordReference app, WordReference.com is a language dictionary, verb conjugation and translation service for more than 15 different languages including Spanish, English, French, Italian and Korean.
Writing Guides
This online guide produced by the University of Michigan gives helpful tips on how to write and proofread an academic paper.
Zotero
This free citation tool allows you to create references, bibliographies, store and organize digital documents and more! Please remember that citation tools do make mistakes and that you are responsible to re-check your citations. For installation and user guides click here.