The complete text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published by the Société des Bollandistes
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Database on religious studies, theology and many other (areas of) sciences that are significant for theology. Annually about 600 journals and 400 monographs are processed by article.

BibleWorks 10.0 contains the text of the bible in the original languages, including variant texts, a great number of ancient and modern translations and associated dictionaries and other reference works.
For access: Logon with your SolisID preceded by soliscom\. A Remote Desktop window opens, click BibleWorks 10. In the next window, click Connect.
For operating systems other than Windows it is necessary to install Microsoft Remote Desktop. Check with the suppliers the installation guide, for example MAC or Android.

Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the early church.

In-depth critical scholarship on all the main aspects of the Sikh traditions.

Digital version of the original 2009 print edition.

Contains The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (with books on literary periods and movements), The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (with books on individual philosophers) and The Cambridge Companions to Music (with books on individual composers).

LLT-A contains Latin texts from the Antiquity, the Patristic periods, the Middle Ages from 736 to 1500 and neo-Latin texts from the Renaissance to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Incorpated texts are selected by virtue of their having been edited according to best contemporary scholarly practice. Facts relating to the texts such as authorial attribution or the dating are verified.
Series B (LLT-B) is complementary to Series A, and contains different texts.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals contains publications of the CMS, South American Missionary Society and Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, from 1804-2009. You can search or browse by topic, person or country.

Arabic-English dictionary of Qur'anic usage. Ed. by Elsaid Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haseem (2008). Full-text searchable in Arabic and English.

A collection of texts containing theological writings, biblical commentaries, social and political works, letters, and polemical treatises. With extensive search possibilities.

This encyclopedia provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life, knowledge and culture, from the Second Temple period to the present. Second edition, 2007.

Contains the entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition.

The new edition includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century, and attention to Muslim minorities all over the world.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.

EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. EBR also documents the history of the Bible's reception, both in a religious and in a broader cultural context.

is a cloud-based digital research environment designed to support Digital Humanities research and easily create, manage, organize and share content sets. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). It is also possible to add text-files (.txt) to the Lab yourself. You need an account with Google or Microsoft to make use it. Je

Second ed. (2002) of A historical atlas of Islam, ed. by Hugh Kennedy. Substantial difference in choice of maps compared to the first ed. from 1981

Bibliography of theology, church history and religious studies.
Index religiosus combines and continues the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus.

International scientific open access bibliography for theology and religious studies, published and maintained by the University of Tübingen.

Database contains articles published after 1950 in Dutch theological journals, especially of a Protestant nature. Freely accessible.

Supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters.

IMB gives references to articles from periodicals and miscellany volumes from 1967 onwards.

The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is a database under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Thousands of scroll fragments can be searched by Site, Language or Content.

LLT-A contains Latin texts from the Antiquity, the Patristic periods, the Middle Ages from 736 to 1500 and neo-Latin texts from the Renaissance to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Incorpated texts are selected by virtue of their having been edited according to best contemporary scholarly practice. Facts relating to the texts such as authorial attribution or the dating are verified.
Series B (LLT-B) is complementary to Series A, and contains different texts.

List of popes with biographical information. Maintained by Kevin Knight. Most of the information comes from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

In the Oxford Bibliographies Classics, overview articles bring together the most important publications on a subject. Each title has a short annotation

Overton is a search engine that helps to find millions of policy documents from all countries and in all languages by subject, title, organization and more. The full texts are also searchable. Overton also allows users to see, track and analyze mentions of publications and other research output in policy documents.
NB This is a one-year license, to be evaluated at the end of 2022. Please send your experiences and suggestions to library@uu.nl.

A papal 'Who's Who' presenting biographical accounts of the officially recognized popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI.

Concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints. With bibliographic references.

Encyclopedia covering the European middle ages in a broad sense: history, society, religion, and culture, as well as archeology, medicine and music. All entries are supported by up-to-date bibliographies.

Full-text editions of the works of major philosophers. Contains the complete works of St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, among others.

Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from 200 AD to 1216.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

finding aid which allows users to identify and localize text fragments, or even snippets, of the Qurʾān. Compiled by Thomas Milo. Based on the King Fuʾād I edition (Cairo 1924) of the text of the Qurʾān.

Comprises the complete works of almost all Greek writers from Homer to authors of the sixth century, as well as selected texts of the Byzantine period.
For your first visit, you will have to create an account name and password.

Collection of biblical texts, translated into Latin, in use before the Vulgate became predominant. These citations from the Church Fathers range from the second to the eighth century.

The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion covers a broad spectrum of theoretical topics used in the academic study of religion, including those from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, historiography, theology, philology, literary studies, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political sciences.

Archives Biographiques Françaises is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from more than 600 biographical sources, published between 1647 and 2013.

Biographical Archive of the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from almost 200 biographical sources, published between 1581 and 1998.

Full text books and periodicals in the field of the humanities and social sciences.

Cambridge Histories Online contains over 290 handbooks on American and British history, economic history, general history, ancient history, history of science, history of the book, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, regional hisory, religious studies, theatre and performing arts, and warfare.

German version of JSTOR. A number of important scholarly journals have been digitised in their entirety. The contents are often available from the first publication year until two to five years ago. Many journals dat back to the ninteenth century.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

The Directory of Open Access Journals gives a subject listing of, often fairly new, free online journals. About half of these are searchable on article level.

Electronic theses produced by scientists at Utrecht University.
As from 2006, theses are stored in electronic form in the Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive. As from November, 2014, this repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
Theses from before 2006 may have been published in electronic form, but most are to be found as printed publications in the catalogue.

Information on medieval prelates and dioceses in Europe.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research, such as Encyclopedia of Emerging Markets, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Child Development, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Learning and Memory.

JSTOR offers full-text access to an archive database of ca. 700 English-language journals in various disciplines. All volumes (including the earliest) are available and can be searched in full text; the most recent years are not included in this archive due to copyright. Collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, V en VII, Business, Collection Ireland, Ecology and Botany, Health and General sciences, Language and Literature.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

Lexicon of the Middle Ages: covers Europe and the Byzantine, Arabian and Jewish world.
With supplement: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

The complete Weimar Edition of Luther's works (in progress).
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Medieval Memoria Online provides a database with inventories and descriptions of objects and texts that had a function in the medieval commemoration of the dead in the area that is currently the Netherlands, until 1580.

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System.
Narcis is the national portal for scientific information including (open access) publications from the Dutch repositories, data sets from a number of data archives, and there are descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes included.

Encyclopedia of classical antiquity. English version of Der Neue Pauly.
Consists of two parts: 'Antiquity’ and 'Classical Tradition'. The section 'Classical Tradition' focuses on the history of the reception of antiquity. Under Other editions are five supplements: Chronologies of the Ancient World, Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts, Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, The Reception of Myth and Mythology and The Reception of Classical Literature. The original German edition Der Neue Pauly is also accessible under Other editions.

Index of millions of publications that have become available for free through the Open Archive Initiative (OAI). These are mainly in publication repositories of universities and in the growing number of free Open Archive journals. Many of these publications are not in regular journal databases.
In principle OAIster covers all subjects. For all publications there are links to the full text.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Authoritative dictionary on classical antiquity, including many references.

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to a selection of ca. 500 of a total of over 4,000 e-books published by Oxford University Press, in the humanities, economics, law, and political science.
Ample search facilities due to keywords and abstracts at both book and chapter level. The UBU link enables you to find the printed books in the catalogue.

Bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web.

PRDL is a select database of links to digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). PRDL offers many search options, full text searching is not possible.

This encyclopedia is divided into the following categories: Philosophical themes, world philosophies, periods, world religions. It is also possible to search with individual words.

The Utrecht University Repository (formerly Igitur Archive), the Utrecht University digital scientific archive, contains documents produced by scientists at Utrecht University: PhD theses, articles, reports, monographs, etc.
Utrecht University Repository is visible via the Dutch national portal, NARCIS.
The majority of the documents are available in full text and are freely accessible. Documents from before 2006 are often available in printed form and can be found via the catalogue.

World Biographical Information System Online contains references on over 6 million people in 9500 biographical sources from around the world and includes the full-text from the Archives Biographiques Françaises and the Benelux Biographical Archive (Biografisch Archief van de Benelux)