Awards for Theology & Religion Online

“Highly recommended. General readers through faculty.”

Theology & Religion Online is delighted to have been named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 by the American Library Association.

Review for Ancient Christian Writers in Katina Magazine, May 2025

"Paulist Press: Ancient Christian Writers is an excellent addition to the Theology & Religion Online platform. The interface is easy to navigate, and the ability to search either within this collection or across all collections to which the institution subscribes is appealing. Libraries interested in this content are likely to already own it in print, so the main advantages of the resource are the unlimited online access and searchability. The pricing seems reasonable, especially compared to similar products."

Stephanie Michel is a reference/instruction librarian at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon.

Review in The Charleston Advisor, 2021

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“This database is curated and presented in a way that high school students, college students, and scholars will find easy to navigate with authoritative resources that are comprehensive and regularly added to.”

“Exclusive online content, authoritative texts, well-rounded variety of curated texts with topic breadth and depth.”

“Hot Topics and Overview Articles provide an excellent orientation to the sides that opponents have taken on various social and religious issues…the Hot Topics are well written and interesting”.

Librarian Testimonials

"To be honest, it’s one of my favorite platforms due to its design, ease of use, and page number integration. The commentaries and Eerdmans Digital Reference Library are particularly helpful.[…]In short, we’re finding TARO very useful and easy to navigate.”

Brady Beard, Head of Research and Instruction, Pitts Theology Library

"Our students and faculty especially like the Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries collection. Before subscribing, we had 11 copies of the entire run of the Anchor Commentaries. With the online access, we were able to de-dupe to free up shelf space, as the students prefer the online version for full-text searching."

Beth Kumar, Director of Library Services, Graduate Theological Union Library

"I'm so thrilled with TARO [Theology and Religion Online] as a platform. It combines lovely design, intuitive navigation, and authoritative resources in a way that you just don't see in other scholarly platforms. It's got the content my more established researchers want presented in a way that welcomes my novices as well. As a librarian supporting a fully online seminary, I can't overstate how wonderful it is to have content that is otherwise only available in print searchable in one place on a site that students actually want to use. I've also been really pleased with our communication with the folks at Bloomsbury. Our questions are answered quickly and thoroughly, and I feel valued as a customer, which is refreshing in an environment where limited vendor options can result in a take-it-or-leave-it approach to design and customer care."

Kate Wimer, Research and Instruction Librarian, George Fox University Library