Global Digital Theological Library

is a specialized, born-digital library providing academic institutions in developing nations with affordable access to high-quality religious and theological resources. It provides over 300,000 e-books, 15 million articles, and 11,000 journals, primarily serving schools with limited budgets.

Portals to open-access databases

ATLA Open-access- Atla Open Press publishes open access books, journals, and other serials that cover subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries, that guide and support innovative library services, that enhance professional development for religious studies and theological librarians, and that represent specialized topics of interest in religion and theology that are of relevance to the work of libraries in supporting the instructional and research activities of their institutions.

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DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)- DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)- of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available.

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JSTOR Open Access Books and Journals- Our partnerships with libraries and publishers help us make content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. Featuring journals, books, primary sources, and images that anyone can access—curated with libraries, museums, and publishers to support research, teaching, and discovery.

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Project Gutenberg - Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

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Springer Open Access - We have published over 183,000 open access articles via Gold open access across disciplines – from the life sciences to the humanities, representing 44% of all Springer Nature articles in 2023. Authors can also publish their article under an open access license in more than 2,100 of our hybrid journals. Our portfolio focuses on robust and insightful research, supporting the development of new areas of knowledge and making ideas and information accessible around the globe. Across our publishing imprints there are leading multidisciplinary and community-focused journals that offer rigorous, high-impact open access. Many of our titles are also published in partnership with academic societies, enabling them to achieve their own open research ambitions.

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Taylor and Francis eBooks - Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science. It includes a librarian dashboard, which provides quick access to MARC and KBART reports, usage data, entitlements and much more. Researchers have a single point of discovery for eBook content, multiple search options, and more. Access to the platform will allow users to: search ebook content at both the book and chapter level, filter search results by subject area, publication date and year published, and create citations in APA format. Flexible purchase options, subject collections, and free trials are available.

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