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Atla Religion Database

Academic journal article database

Field	Value
title	Atla Religion Database
producer	American Theological Library Association
country	United States
providers	EBSCO
cost	Subscription
disciplines	Theology, religious studies
formats	Journal articles, essays, book reviews
temporal	1949–present, with retrospective indexing for some journals back to the nineteenth century
geospatial	Global
number	Over 2.1 million
updates	Monthly
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The Atla Religion Database (ATLA RDB) is an index of academic journal articles in the area of religion. It is updated monthly and published by the American Theological Library Association. The database indexes articles, essays, and book reviews related to a wide range of scholarly fields related to religion. The database is available on a subscription basis through a database aggregator.

The total database includes over 3.0 million article citations from over 2,400+ journals. There are more than a quarter of a million essay citations from more than 18,000 multi-author works. The number of book reviews is over half a million. Atla indexes multi-author works, such as Festschriften and conference proceedings, with separate records for each essay.

Formats

The Atla Religion Database, formerly available on CD-ROM, is a MARC record format database that incorporates several out-of-print indexes, including Religion Index One: Periodicals, Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.

Coverage

The database indexes scholarly works on major world religions. There are, however, selection criteria for inclusion according to scholarly merit and scope. More than 60 languages are represented. 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:

Ancient history
Anthropology
Archaeology
Bible
Church history
Ethics
Mission
Philosophy
Pastoral ministry
Religious studies
Theology
Human Culture & Society
Ecumenism
World religions

References

(April 15, 2011). "Finding Religion". [[Library Journal]].
"ATLA Announces Monthly Updates and Major Product Enhancements".
"Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®)".
"ATLA Religion Database". American Theological Library Association.
(1998). "American Theological Library Association Summary of Proceedings". American Theological Library Association.
Campbell, Cameron J.. (2004). "World Religions/Religious Studies in ATLA's RDB". Summary of Proceedings of the Annual Conference- American Theological Library Association.

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