Trinity Evangelical Christian University & Seminary
TECU Digital Library
With today’s technology, digital libraries are here to stay and as a University and Seminary, we desire to keep our costs as low as possible to support the global church for its theological needs.
TECU’s Administration has worked hard to find the best Open Access or Free high-quality digital library resources. Many options offer books in English, French, German, and a wide range of theological languages.
There is an option for those who are able to purchase access to a greater range of theological resources.
Open-Access Theological Libraries
- Global Theology and Ethics Digital Library.
https://www.globethics.net/gtl
Note: You do need to register, but it is free.
Over 200 Journals (Thousands of Articles) in English and French to read from.
Over 100,000 E-Books in English and French.
Note: This resource has great international journal access from those African and Asian Journals. - The Digital Library – Open Access (Free)
https://libguides.thedtl.org/oadtl
1,000,000 plus E-Books
52,000,000 plus Articles
36,000 plus Journals - Open Access Theses and Dissertations
https://oatd.org/
There will be a wide selection of religious and non-religious Master Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. - Directory of Open Access JournalsFind open access journals & articles.
- Divinity Archive (Duke University)Open access books, digitized from the Duke Divinity School Library’s collection of pre-1923 religious titles.
- Theological Commons (Princeton)
- The Theological Commons is a freely accessible digital library of over 166,000 resources on theology and religion. Developed in partnership with the Internet Archive, it contains books, journals, audio recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and other formats dating from the medieval era to the present.
- HathiTrustThey say you can only access from the USA. Not sure how true it is, but a simple VPN can resolve this issue.
Paid Theological Digital Library
For those interested, here is a list of additional digital library resources that require a low subscription-based option. Those listed here are not required to use, but are only a recommendation.
1. The Seminary Bookshelf
- https://seminarybookshelf.libguides.com/home
- Over 1,300,000 Ebooks (850,000 from the last 25 years, 400,000 from the last ten years, and 125,000 from the last five years.
- Expected cost is 10 dollars a month.
