Need help looking for online resources to support your research project? This guide aims to put all the links you need in one place. Below, find out how to contact a librarian about your research question; watch recorded tutorials that walk you through search strategies for various databases; and find a list of helpful links to connect you with additional online resources to support your research.
Not sure where to begin? Go straight to the source: librarians are still working offsite to answer your research questions and give you advice about where to find the sources you need. You can submit a general email query, set up an appointment with a librarian, or request a purchase.
Use this email form to ask us anything: from factual inquiries about the library’s holdings and services, to citation verification, to selection and use of electronic databases and resources, to guidance on how to begin library research for a term paper or class project.
Prefer to set up a Zoom appointment to have a conversation with a librarian? No problem! Make an appointment with a librarian so that we can hear more about your research interests. Zoom allows us to share our screen, so we can also walk you through searches of databases or other resources we think will be helpful to your project!
Make an Appointment with Katie Benjamin
Make an Appointment with Lacey Hudspeth
Have you identified a print resource that would help your research, and wonder if it’s available as an electronic book? Use this form to email a purchase request to the Library Director.
Note: To speed request processing, the most important information you can include on the form is the book’s 10- or 13-digit ISBN! This can be found in the library catalog record (if Duke already owns the print book) or on a book seller website like Powell’s or Amazon.
Using the Divinity School Library Website
Searching the Atla Religion Database
Troubleshooting: Searching a partial citation using Online Journal Titles
Searching HathiTrust – Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) ◊ Hathi Trust Digital Library — Home page
Searching Intelex Past Masters (Written tutorial) ◊ Past Masters — Homepage
How to Return your Library books: At this time, we ask that only graduating seniors who need to clear their library accounts return their books. This page walks you through the various ways you can do that.
Divinity E-Reserves: Electronic versions of books required for Spring 2020 courses. (Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 coming soon!)
Quick-guide to Databases and Electronic Resources: The top 13 search strategies and databases Divinity students should know about.
Research Guide: Open Access Resources in Religious and Theological Studies — Duke Divinity School Library
Research Guide: Art and Images — Duke Divinity School Library
Research Guide: Biblical Studies — Duke Divinity School Library
Digitized pre-1923 Books on Divinity Archive — Duke Divinity School Library
Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)
Theological Commons — Digital Collection from Princeton Theological Seminary
Online Theology Resources — Bridwell Library (SMU)
National Emergency Library — Internet Archive
