ATLASerials

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Atlaserials®
Producer
religious studies
Format coverageJournal articles, plus bibliographic citations featuring PDFs, with searchable texts of articles and reviews
Temporal coverage1949-present, with retrospective indexing for some journal issues back to the nineteenth century
Geospatial coverageGlobal
No. of recordsOver 678,000
Update frequencyMonthly
Links
Websitep.atla.com/research-tool/atlas/
Title list(s)p.atla.com/research/title-lists/

Atlaserials (Atlas) is an online full-text collection of major religion and theology journals used by libraries, librarians, religion scholars, theologians, and clergy. Created by the American Theological Library Association[1] and updated monthly,[2] the database indexes journal articles and bibliographic citations, featuring PDFs, with searchable texts of articles and reviews, related to a wide range of scholarly fields related to religion.[3] The database is available on a subscription basis through a database aggregator.

The total database includes over 588,000 article citations from over 330 journals.[4]

Coverage

The database indexes scholarly works on major world religions. Some records cover articles as far back as the 19th century.[5][6]

Scholarly fields with significant degrees of coverage include:

  • Bible[7]
  • Archaeology
  • Antiquities
  • Human culture and society
  • Church history
  • Mission
  • Ecumenism
  • Pastoral ministry
  • World religions
  • Religious studies
  • Theology
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Terrie. "LibGuides: Religious History: Finding Periodical Articles: Online Indexes". libguides.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  2. ^ "ATLA Announces Monthly Updates and Major Product Enhancements". www.atla.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-04. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  3. ^ Wilson, Terrie. "LibGuides: Religious History: Finding Periodical Articles: Online Indexes". libguides.lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  4. ^ "ATLASerials® (ATLAS®)". www.atla.com. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  5. ^ "Atla Religion Database (Atla RDB) with AtlaSerials (Atlas) | EBSCO". www.ebsco.com. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  6. ^ "ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials | Indiana University Libraries". libraries.indiana.edu. 2006-04-04. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  7. ^ "Tutorial Videos". Atla. Retrieved 2023-07-18.

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