ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

Published: Sun, 11 Jul 2021

Welcome to the Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials Screen! Browse the topics listed below to find what you are looking for:

[About the Database]
[Searching Tips]
[Searchable Fields]
[Definition of Fields]
[Publications Authority File]
[Subject Terms Authority File]
[Index Browse]
[Copyright and Restrictions of Use]
[Where to Send Your Comments]

About the Database

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials

Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®) with AtlaSerials® (AtlaS®) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with Atla's online collection of more than 370+ major religion and theology journals. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

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Searching Tips

There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link terms together; limit the search to a specific title; and /or restrict the search to a particular date range.

Note: Stopwords are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. These words are not indexed for searching in the database. For example, 'the', 'for', and 'of' are stopwords. When a stopword is used in a query, any single word or no word is retrieved in place of the stopword. When searching strings that contain stopwords or a Boolean operator, it is necessary to use quotation marks.

Boolean Operators

Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.

USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or full text.

• For example, type high risk AND injury to find results that refer to both high risk and injury.

USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.

• As an example, search high risk AND injury OR trauma to find results that contain either the terms "high risk" and "injury", or the term "trauma".

USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.

Type: high risk OR injury NOT trauma to find results that contain the terms "high risk" or "injury", but not the term "trauma".
To further define your results, type: high risk AND injury AND trauma to constrict the search to include all terms linked by the "AND" operator.

Grouping Terms Together Using Parentheses

Parentheses also may be used to control a search query. Without parentheses, a search is executed from left to right. Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched first. Why is this important? Parentheses allow you to control and define the way the search will be executed. The left phrase in parentheses is searched first; then based upon those results the second phrase in parentheses is searched.

Generalized Search:
early education OR pre-school AND adult education OR secondary schools
Focused Search:
(early education OR pre-school) AND (adult education OR secondary schools)

In the first example, the search will retrieve everything on "early education" as well as references to the terms "pre-school" and "adult education", and everything on "secondary schools".

In the second example, we have used the parentheses to control our query to only find articles about "early education or pre-school" that reference "adult education or secondary schools".

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Searchable Fields

All fields are searched as a default in an unqualified search, except for the following: ISBN, ISSN, Library of Congress Number, Linking record control Number, Related links and Publication Type.

Note: At this time, the EBSCOhost search engine does not support the searching of diacritical marks (accent marks), present in fields within this database. The diacritical search enhancement will be implemented at a future date.

The following list will help you locate detailed information referenced in this database as a field.

Searchable tag	Description	Example
AA	Abstract Available [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the records have an abstract available.	AA Y
AB	Abstract [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of the abstract summaries.	AB catholic
AN	Accession Number [Phrase indexed] Performs an exact search for an article's unique identification number..	AN Atla0000785063
AR	Author Phrase [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for an article's author, in the format of last name, first name, and middle initial if available.	AU Enninger, Werner or AR "Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts"
AU	Author [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for any authors of an article.	AU Enninger, Werner or AU Noble, Paul R.
BN	Scripture Book Name [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for any scripture book.	BN Thessalonians, 1st
CA	Corporate author [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for any corporate authors of an article.	CA Coldplay
CB	Contents Note [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of notes regarding contents.	CB Genesis
CC	Classification Code [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of Atla classification codes.	CC Nature
CH	Chapter [Word Indexed] Performs a search of the scripture chapter number	CH 24
CO	Conference name [Word Indexed] Performs a search of the related conference.	CO European Mission Conference
DE	Heading or Keyword [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search of the heading descriptors listed in the records.	DE Women -- Education
DO	DOI [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search of DOI listed in the records	DO 10.1163/15700666-12341268
DT	Date of Publication [Date Indexed] Performs an exact search for the date of publication of an article into the database in YYYY, YYYYMM or YYYYMMDD format	DT 1999 DT 19990201
ED	Entry Date [Date Indexed] Performs an exact search for the date of entry of an article into the database in YYYYMMDD format.	ED 20160820
FM	Format Full Text [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for an article's type of full text. The searchable values and what they indicate are as follows: T - HTML Full Text C - Embedded Image in the Full Text P - PDF document	FM P
FT	Full Text Available [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the records have full text available.	FT Y
GE	Geographic Terms [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of geographic locations pertaining to an article's content.	GE Africa -- Church history
IB	ISBN [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for a publication's International Standard Book Number.	IB 9780195337105
IP	Issue [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for a publication's issue number.	IP 4
IS	ISSN [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for a publication's International Standard Serial Number.	IS 0021-969X
JN	Journal Name [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for the journal name of the article.	JN Academy
LA	Language of Item [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the record's listed languages.	LA eng
LC	LCCN [Word Indexed] Performs a search for a record’s Library of Congress Control Number	LC 2016.0228
NA	Subject Name [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of a record's personal or corporate subject terms.	NA accademia
NT	General Note [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of the general notes on the article.	NT Bibliography
OA	Open Access Flag [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the records are open access.	OA Y
OT	Uniform Title [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the uniform title	OT National Moratorium On Prison Construction
PB	Publisher [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the publisher name.	PB Sage
PD	Papal Date [Date Indexed] Performs an exact search for the Papal date associated with an article into the database in YYYY, YYYYMM or YYYYMMDD format	PD 19801025
PG	Number of Pages [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for an article's page count.	PG 18
PN	Pagination [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for an article’s page range	PN 72
PP	Place of Publication [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the publication place	PP London
PT	Publication Type [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for a record's publication type.	PT article
RV	Peer-Reviewed [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles are peer-reviewed.	RV Y
RW	Non-author Contributor [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search on non-author contributors such as reviewers, editors, or translators	RW Stewart
SC	Scripture Citation [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the scripture citation.	SC Luke 12:40 SC Luke 15:11 - 15:32
SO	Publication Name [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for the journal name of the article.	SO Anima
SP	Start Page [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for an article's starting page number.	SP 13
SR	Scripture Expanded [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search on the single scriptures contained within a cited range.	SR John 1:15
ST	Series Title [Word Indexed] Performs an exact search for series title.	ST American Academy of Religion
SU	Subject Terms [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of the subject headings listed in the records.	SU Linguistics
SV	Series Volume [Phrase Indexed] Performs a keyword search of the related series including volume information.	SV 3
TI	Title [Word Indexed] Searches keywords in a record's English and non-English title field.	TI London Quakers
TP	Subject Topic [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search on all subjects in a record.	TP music
TX	All Text [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search of all the database's searchable fields. Using the TX field code will cause the search to look for the keyword in the full text as well as the citation record.	TX Jesus
UT	Subject Uniform Title [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search for titles as subjects.	UT acts
VE	Verse [Word Indexed] Performs a keyword search on a scripture verse number.	VE 3
VI	Volume [Phrase Indexed] Performs an exact search for a publication's volume number.	VI 5
XF	Full Text Only [Word Indexed] Performs an exact search for Full Text Only	XF church
YR	Year Published [Date Indexed] Performs a date search for the year published in a YYYY format.	YR 2005

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Definition of Fields

The following table explains the contents of each field in an Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials record's detailed display (not all fields are listed in every record).

Field name	Description
Title	Title of the article.
Alternate Title	Non-English title of the article.
Language	Language in which the article was published.
Authors	Any author's names listed in last name, first name format.
Source	The source in which the article was published and any other additional information available be it volume number, issue number, pagination, page count or specifics on illustrations found in the article.
Historical Period	Chronology content marking time event details of the record.
Document Type	Indicates a record's document type, such as article, book, abstract, company report, industry overview, and more.
Benchmarks	The specific article’s Benchmark subject headings describing the record's content.
Subject Terms	The specific article’s subject headings describing the record's content.
Geographic Terms	The specific article's geographic subject headings describing the record's content.
Author-Supplied Keywords	Searchable terms in relation to the article that are provided by the author.
Keywords	Searchable terms based on the article's content. If keywords are in a language other than English, the corresponding language will be noted.
Company/Entity	Company or institutional names related to the article’s content. May include DUNS numbers and/or Ticker numbers.
Reviews & Products	Products mentioned or reviewed in the article.
NAICS/Industry Codes	NAICS industry codes and industry names related to the article’s content
People	Personal names related to the article’s content
Abstract	A brief summary taken from the article itself.
Disclaimer	Disclaimer statement associated with a publication title
Notes	General statement listed in the record regarding the article.
Author Affiliations	The organization or institution affiliated with the authors of the article.
Country of Publication	The country in which an article was originally published.
Committee Name	The government department or committee referenced in the document.
Region/Area	The region or area referenced in the document.
Place of Event	Location of the event referenced in the article.
Guest	Guests referenced in the article.
Full Text Word Count	The word count of the article's full text.
ISSN	Indicates a record's International Standard Serial Number.
ISBN	Indicates a record's International Standard Book Number.
URL	Indicates a record's Uniform Resource Locator.
DOI	Indicates a record's Digital Object Identifier.
Document Number	The unique identifier associated with a dissertation
Accession Number	Unique number to identify the record.

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Publications Authority File

The Publications authority file is a list of the publications from the Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials. The Publications authority file is drawn from the publications listed in each record; therefore, all terms will provide links to pertinent records. User is able to browse publications by using one of three modes: "Alphabetical", "By Subject & Description" or "Match Any Words".

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Subject Terms Authority File

The Subject Terms authority file is a controlled vocabulary of terms that assists in more effectively searching the database. You can browse the keywords search list "Alphabetically" or as "Relevancy Ranked".

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Index Browse Authority File

Index browsing allows the user to view all values that occur in specified fields in a database, along with corresponding hit counts. Access the index browse feature by clicking the green "Indexes" button on the upper portion of the "Advanced" search screen. Use the drop-down menu to choose an index to browse. Indexes can also be searched using tags. Since browsable indexes are phrase indexed, the exact form and spelling of terms as they appear in the database must be used in conjunction with the tags when entering a search manually. Indexes available for browsing in Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials are listed below. Tags for all fields included in the index browse feature begin with "Z" (e.g. "ZA" for Author).

Accession Number	ZC
Author	ZA
Publisher	ZB
Book Title	ZK
Classification Code	ZS
Conference Name	ZQ
Corporate Author	ZO
Subject Genre	ZZ
Subject Geographic	ZG
ISSN	ZI
Journal Title	ZJ
Language	ZL
Subject Name	ZM
Publication Type	ZT
Year Of Publication	ZR
Bible Citation	ZP
Scripture Reference	ZP
Series	ZY
Subjects All	ZU
Topical Terms	ZE
Update Code	ZD
Year of Publication	ZR