ATLASerials
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 and updated monthly,[1] 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. The database is available on a subscription basis through a database aggregator.
| Producer | American Theological Library Association (United States) |
|---|---|
| Access | |
| Providers | EBSCO |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Theology and religious studies |
| Format coverage | Journal articles, plus bibliographic citations featuring PDFs, with searchable texts of articles and reviews |
| Temporal coverage | 1949-present, with retrospective indexing for some journal issues back to the nineteenth century |
| Geospatial coverage | Global |
| No. of records | Over 678,000 |
| Update frequency | Monthly |
| Links | |
| Website | https://p.atla.com/research-tool/atlas/ |
| Title list(s) | https://p.atla.com/research/title-lists/ |
The total database includes over 588,000 article citations from over 330 journals.[2]
Coverage
The database indexes scholarly works on major world religions. Some records cover articles as far back as the 19th century. Atla claims full coverage for core journals back to 1949.
Scholarly fields with significant degrees of coverage include:
- Bible
- Archaeology
- Antiquities
- Human culture and society
- Church history
- Mission
- Ecumenism
- Pastoral ministry
- World religions
- Religious studies
- Theology
- Philosophy
- Ethics
References
- "ATLA Announces Monthly Updates and Major Product Enhancements". www.atla.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-04. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
- "ATLASerials® (ATLAS®)". www.atla.com. Retrieved 2018-04-03.