| Producer | American Theological Library Association (United States) |
|---|---|
| Access | |
| Providers | EBSCO |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Theology,religious studies |
| Format coverage | Journal articles, essays, book reviews |
| Temporal coverage | 1949–present, with retrospective indexing for some journals back to the nineteenth century |
| Geospatial coverage | Global |
| No. of records | Over 2.1 million |
| Update frequency | Monthly |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Title list(s) | www |
TheAtla Religion Database (ATLA RDB) is an index ofacademic journal articles in the area ofreligion.[1] It is updated monthly[2] and published by theAmerican Theological Library Association. The database indexes articles,essays, andbook 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.[3] 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.[4] Atla indexes multi-author works, such asFestschriften andconference proceedings, with separate records for each essay.
TheAtla Religion Database, formerly available on CD-ROM, is aMARC record format database[5] that incorporates several out-of-print indexes, includingReligion Index One: Periodicals,Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, andIndex to Book Reviews in Religion.[1]
The database indexes scholarly works onmajor world religions.[6] 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.
In 1996 Susan Smailes' masters thesis criticizedAtla Religion Database for under-representing the emerging fields oflesbian theology andwomanist theology in its coverage.[7]
Scholarly fields with significant degrees of coverage include: