EBSCO Religion and Theology Collection

EBSCO

Year Joined PERii
2008

Resource Name
EBSCO Religion and Theology Collection

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

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Title Listing

http://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists

Content Overview
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

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 DatabaseTM is the definitive index for information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history and religion in social issues
  • Nearly 1.7 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages
  • Content includes article citations, essay citations from multi-author works, book review citations and a growing number of multimedia citations
  • Most coverage spans from 1908 to present, while an ambitious retrospective indexing project provides citations of select titles back to their original publication date
  • Languages:
  • 60% English, 8% German, 6% French, 26% other 

    • Usage Guides
    Document ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (85kb)
    Document CPLI: Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online (82kb]
    Document New Testament Abstracts Guide (94kb)
    Document Old Testament Abstracts Guide (106kb)

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