Bahá’í Research is a new web-based tool for accessing holy writings of the Bahá’í Faith and other religions. Those familiar with the Ocean research tool will recognize a lot here, since the texts are ported over and the interface is very similar. This web-based application does have a few features that Ocean doesn’t, notably you can easily search a subset of publications by marking the checkboxes next to the books you want to include in the search.

As a private service project, this web application allows the general public to easily search for key words and phrases in many of the world’s holy scriptures.

Special thanks must be given to Chad Jones for the work he did in compiling much of the texts for his free and fantastic Ocean windows-based application. This site uses many of them but expands into other areas such as Arabic and allows users access to a powerful tool when they can’t install Ocean on their PC.

There is also a short video tutorial that walks you through how to use the program.

The site is platform independent, and mentions that it works faster on Firefox, though personally I was only able to get it running properly in Internet Explorer. Your mileage may vary.

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