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ATLA Religion Database
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- Alternate title
- Religion Database
- Description
- The ATLA Religion Database is an essential tool for the study of religion. It is
the
premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of
religion. The fact that many publishers solicit the inclusion of their journals in ATLA RDB
is
indicative of the stature it has achieved in the community of religion scholars.
Journals are selected for inclusion according to their scholarly merit and scope. Journals
representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups
are included.
ATLA's indexing of multi-author works, such as Festschriften and conference proceedings,
is
unique among religion databases. Unlike indexes that catalog books of essays as a single entry,
ATLA indexes each individual essay in such works.
- Help
- Detailed search help is available from the vendor. Look in the upper right-hand corner of the screen
for the link to HELP.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- User tools and features
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- Journal alerts and Search history alerts, searchable cited references for 1,000 titles,
author email addresses.
- Scriptures link on the tool bar provides a clickable menu of
biblical books, chapters and verses indexed in the database. The SC
[Scripture Citation] field tag in Advanced search permits similar
searches.
- A visual search tab allows the user to search efficiently across
broad subjects, and then returns a visual map of results, organized by
topic.
- Dates covered
- 1949-present.
- Updating frequency
- Semi-annual.
- Sources
- The Database includes records for journal articles, articles in
essays collections and book reviews in English and other languages.
A list of currently
indexed serials is available from ATLA.
- Type of coverage
- Contains full bibliographic citations [with some links to full text]. Contents are listed for many
edited books and other compilations.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- The ATLA Religion Database, produced by the American Theological Library Association,
is a compilation of three print indexes:
Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO®),
Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT®), and
Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR®)
- Funder
- VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey
- Producer/content provider
- EBSCO Publishing
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Ebsco
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