You don’t have to wait for the next volume to come out to start reviewing the Joseph Smith Papers collection at JosephSmithPapers.org. The website lets you search and view the documents in a digitized format next to the transcription, which isn’t available in the printed volumes.

The Joseph Smith Papers Project just published more than 100 Joseph Smith documents on its website, including letters, revelations, discourses, and other documents dating from 1841, as well as a record book of Joseph Smith’s letters and an account by Sidney Rigdon detailing the persecution of the Latter-day Saints in Missouri.

Watch the video below about the Joseph Smith Papers online.

Some of the features on the website include the following:

• Short biographies of hundreds of early Latter-day Saints and other Joseph Smith contemporaries.
• An interactive map explaining places relevant to Church history.
• A chronology of important events from Joseph Smith’s life and early Church history.
• A glossary of Church terminology and how the meanings evolved over time.
• Maps and charts that put Joseph Smith’s world in context.
• Links to the earliest existing copies of revelations found in the Doctrine and Covenants.
• Links to primary accounts of the First Vision.

For lessons, talks, or personal study, you might also want to see the Revelations in Context series on history.lds.org, which relies in part on the Joseph Smith Papers and other Church History Department research to explain the historical background of many sections of the Doctrine and Covenants.