This journal utilises the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system amongst participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Abstracts of Verbum et Ecclesia are indexed in:

• Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Google (Scholar).
• SABINET Online (South African Information Network).
• UP OpenAccess, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.
• Bibelwissenschaftliche Literaturdokumentation Innsbruck (BILDI), Innsbruck, Austria.
• Elenchus of Biblical Bibliography of the Editrice Pontificio Institutio Biblico, Rome, Italy.
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) and International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature, Osnabrück, Germany.
• Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete (IZBG), International review of Biblical Studies.
• New Testament Abstracts, Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA.
• Old Testament Abstracts, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
• Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP).
• Religious and Theological Abstracts, Myerstown, PA, U S A.
• South African Theological Bibliography (Electronic resource).

All articles published in Verbum et Ecclesia from 1995 are available on the Internet via Google Scholar.