St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Fr. Georges Florovsky Library has greatly expanded its electronic research resources by acquiring full access to the JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection.
The Florovsky Library previously had access to JSTOR Essential (nearly 700 titles). The upgrade to the Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection means seminarians, faculty, and visiting scholars and students now have access to a total of 2,892 titles.
“This is an important expansion to our electronic collections, and we are happy to be able to offer this to our seminarians and faculty,” said Seminary Dean Dr. Ionut-Alexandru Tudorie. “We have been working to make St. Vladimir’s Seminary a hub for Orthodox scholars, and having the best research library possible is an important piece in attracting the best scholars here.”
In addition to JSTOR, patrons of the Fr. Georges Florovsky Library also have access to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Sources Chrétiennes Online, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, ATLA, plus a selection of theological journals published by De Gruyter, Brepols, Peeters, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.
About the Fr Georges Florovsky Library
The Library at SVOTS has always been considered one of the Seminary’s greatest assets, with over 160,000 volumes in holdings ranging from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries and hundreds of periodicals. It has been called the “richest library of Eastern Christian holdings in the Western Hemisphere” by Dr. James Billington, the former Librarian of Congress (1987-2015). In addition to serving the students, faculty, and alumni, the Library is now used by scholars from all over the world, and many outside patrons regularly request use of library materials.
