Electronic resources for Religious Studies

  • Britannica Original Sources
  • Britannica's Omega Sources (previously Original Sources) is a primary source documents in many subject areas. *Merriam-webster and original sources are both accessible/available through Britannica online platform.

  • Christian-Muslim Relations online I & II (600-1900)
  • Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general online history of relations between the faiths. It covers the period from 600 to 1900 CE, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages.

  • Coptic Gnostic Library Online
  • The Coptic Gnostic Library is the only authoritative edition of many of the Coptic writings of the Gnostics from the first centuries AD.

  • Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān
  • The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.

  • Encyclopedia of Christianity
  • The Encyclopedia of Christianity Online describes modern-day Christian beliefs and communities in the context of 2000 years of apostolic tradition and Christian history. Based on the third, revised edition of the critically acclaimed German work Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon.

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
  • The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online (EJIW) is the first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.

  • Oxford Journals
  • Full text journals covering law, social sciences, and arts & humanities.

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
  • Oxford Scholarship Online currently provides AUC with unlimited access to over 20,000 Oxford University Press books, including some of their latest published titles and prestigious series. These titles cover all subjects and disciplines due to the EBA subscription in 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online is a searchable, full-text database of classic scholarly books from Oxford University Press online up to and including Jan 2009. AUC Libraries provide access to the collections Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology. In addition AUC Library has access to Biology (to 2018),Economics and Finance (to 2018) plus Apr.2019-Mar.2021 updates, Law Top Up 2018-19 (105 titles) plus 2019-20 & 2020-21 updates, Literature Apr 2018- Mar 2021 updates, History top up 2017-19 (232 titles), Psychology April 2019-Mar.2021 updates and Religion (to 2016) & top up 2017-19(270 titles), Social Work (to 2018). *Availability online is based on the year of Oxford Scholarship online publication and not the print publication.