Digital Projects
The Institute ensures that the best digital resources and scholarship in the field of Jesuit Studies are available in Open Access, for everyone, everywhere, and will continue that commitment with additional forthcoming projects. The Institute welcomes collaborative partners in the digital humanities.
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The Portal to Jesuit Studies
The Portal collaborates with publishers, institutions, and scholars to provide informed direction to some of the richest primary sources and most important recent scholarship on the Society of Jesus.
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Jesuit Online Bibliography
A collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century.
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Jesuit Online Library
The Jesuit Online Library allows users to search 39 Jesuit titles and more than 150,000 pages simultaneously or to browse single volumes individually.
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Jesuit Historiography Online
An Open Access resource that will offer more than 70 scholarly essays on a variety of topics and in a variety of disciplines associated with the history of the Society of Jesus.
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Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits
Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits is a journal dedicated to Jesuit history and spirituality, examining the spiritual doctrine and practice of Society of Jesus through scholarly essays.
All the digital initiatives organized by the Institute operate under The Portal to Jesuit Studies. This open-access database allows users to search a curated collection of primary sources and scholarly publications in the field of Jesuit Studies. The Portal aggregates resources from different websites, making their contents all available in a single search engine. The Portal's editors collaborate with scholars, editors, archivists, and rightsholders to give informed direction to some of the richest primary sources and burgeoning scholarship in the field of Jesuit Studies.
The Portal to Jesuit Studies provides free, online access to a fully searchable collection of primary sources and scholarly publications in the field of Jesuit Studies. The Portal curates resources from different websites, making their contents all available in a single search engine. The Portal's editors collaborate with scholars, editors, archivists, and rightsholders to give informed direction to some of the richest primary sources and burgeoning scholarship in the field of Jesuit Studies.
Accessible in Open Access at JesuitOnlineBibliography.com, the Jesuit Online Bibliography is a database of bibliographical records for scholarship (books, chapters, articles, reviews, dissertations, and others materials) in the field of Jesuit Studies. Editorial oversight of bibliography is a collaborative effort between Jesuit research centers and archives as well as scholars and publishers. To learn more, please contact jesuitportal@bc.edu.
Begun in 2016, the Jesuit Historiography Online will eventually consist of more than 70 essays on a variety of topics and in a variety of disciplines associated with the history of the Society of Jesus. Essays will be updated and new essays added on a regular basis. The Institute supports the project as an Open Access resource.
The Jesuit Online Library allows users to search 39 Jesuit titles—more than 150,000 pages in more than 1,000 volumes—simultaneously or to browse single volumes individually. The collection includes books and journals in English, French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Portuguese. Searches can be refined by title, date, publication, or author. The Institute collaborates with rightsholders to make these titles available online at no cost to the users or publishers. The full contents of the Jesuit Online Library are included with the search capacity of the Portal to Jesuit Studies.
Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits is a journal dedicated to Jesuit history and spirituality, examining the spiritual doctrine and practice of Society of Jesus through scholarly essays. It is a product of the Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, whose membership is composed of Jesuits appointed from their provinces in the United States.