EBSCO Religion and Theology Collection

License Agreed
Institutional subscriptions for selected paying institutions

Service Type
A collection of online databases of journals and other learned content

Content
EBSCO has made special provision to enable access to

  • ATLA Religion Database
  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  • CPLI (Catholic Periodical and Literature Index)
  • New Testament Abstracts
  • Old Testament Abstracts
  • Religion & Philosophy Collection

Titles of Journals
A list of titles available in the ATLA Religion Database is available Document here [Excel 500kb].

Subject Strengths

  • Religion and human culture
  • Theology, philosophy and ethics
  • Christian denominations
  • Church history, missions and ecumenism
  • World religions and religious studies
  • Bible archaeology and antiquities
  • Pastoral ministry

Service Strengths

  • The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion
  • The 1,400,000 records in ATLA include:
    • 416,000+ journal article records
    • 211,700+ essay records from 15,700+ multi-author works
    • 432,000+ book reviews of 208,600+ books
    • 1,580 journal titles, 571 of which are currently indexed
  • Languages:
    • 60% English, 8% German, 6% French, 26% other

URL to platform/collection access
www.epnet.com

Registration
When your institution has paid its subscription through KLISC, EBSCO will set up your access and no further registration is necessary.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

URL to general publisher site
www.epnet.com

Usage guides

For help and support from the publisher please contact
arabiaep@emirates.net.ae

For further information please contact your country coordinator
Your country coordinator's contact details can be found by selecting your country from the drop down list towards the top right-hand side of this page.

More information for librarians
Please go to the Librarian's information page, here.

Subject Strengths

  • single resource and single interface containing over 16,500 abstracted and indexed titles
  • good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities
  • strong business coverage
  • strong nursing, medicine and allied health coverage
  • dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from peer-reviewed content 

Service Strengths

  • single resource and single interface containing over 7,000 titles
  • 1-8 databases can be searched at the same time; many journals can be searched at once
  • clean, clear, intuitive interface with good search facilities
  • saved search facility for repeat search queries
  • good quality, context-sensitive help
  • user statistics available online

How Do I Gain Access?

I am a librarian, how do I register my institution for access?
Please go to the PERI registration page. You should select to browse by country, select your country, then resource and follow the instructions from there. You can download help documents on the registration process.

You will need to know the IP range of your Institute in order for your users to gain automatically authenticated access and for you to gain usage data specific to your Institute. If this is impossible, access is also available for those without a permanently assigned IP range through Username /Password.

I am a user, how do I gain access?
If you are at an institution please check whether your librarian/IT department has set access for the computer you are using. Access is controlled via IP addresses entered within the institutional administrative system. Please contact your librarian or PERI Country Coordinator if you are in any doubt.

Accessing Statistics
Registered institutes can click here to access usage statistics. If you need an Administrator user id and password, please contact deannafecteau@epnet.com giving the full name and address of your institution. This will only be supplied to the person named on the registration system as the primary contact for the institution.

Tutorials and help documents
Tutorials and support documents are available by clicking here.

Web sites for further information
Full information on each of the 8 EBSCO databases available through PERI can be found at www.epnet.com - click on Academic Library and navigate from there.

Contact for Help/Support
Deanna Fecteau deannafecteau@epnet.com
Also see the EBSCO support web site: http://case.support.epnet.com