ATLAS is an online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from as early as 1908 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLAS as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than one hundred fifty different journals. 

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Notable Features

• more than 285,300+ articles and book reviews combined
• ATLAS  features PDFs, with searchable texts of articles and reviews. 
• affordable versions for various audiences
• available through  EBSCOhost and OvidSP platforms (contact information is listed below);
interested subscribers should contact each of these aggregators directly for information about pricing, licensing, terms of use, subscription terms, trials, features, and technical support

Format:	online
Data type:	electronic collection of journals plus bibliographic citations
Coverage:	as early as 1908 to the present
Title list:	on ATLA web site
Coverage areas:	Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, mission, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics
Updated:	quarterly: February, May, August, and November

Contact

Online Aggregators

Two major online aggregators have produced their own versions of the ATLA Religion Database. These products are created from MARC records provided to the aggregators by ATLA. Interested subscribers should contact each of these aggregators directly for information about pricing, licensing, terms of use, subscription terms, trials, features, and technical support. 

EBSCO Publishing, offering EBSCOhost platform 
800.653.2726
fax: 978.356.6565
www.ebscohost.com

Ovid, offering OvidSP platform
646.674.6300
toll-free in U.S.: 800.950.2035
fax: 646.674.6301
www.ovid.com

Important Notice to Existing ATLA Religion Database and ATLASerials (ATLAS) subscribers via OCLC/ FirstSearch---March 2010:

EBSCO has recently purchased the rights to license certain vendor-owned databases that are currently available via FirstSearch.  Here is the news release.  Existing subscribers to the ATLA Religion Database and ATLASerials (ATLAS) via OCLC/FirstSearch will continue to receive access to these databases on the FirstSearch service through the end of their current subscriptions.  In order that customers experience an ideal transition to EBSCOhost following the current subscription period, EBSCOhost access to the ATLA Religion Database and ATLASerials will be activated to run in parallel with FirstSearch access for the remainder of the current subscription.  For more information refer to FAQs here (pages 1 and 7-13 focus on the FirstSearch databases) and here, or contact support@atla.com. 

If you are an ATLA member purchasing the databases through the ATLA consortia, there are still outstanding questions to be answered specifically regarding the ATLA/OCLC and ATLA/EBSCO Publishing consortia.  We are working with OCLC and EBSCO staff to answer them in order to continue the consortia negotiations.  We would like to pass along member feedback and questions to our OCLC and EBSCO representatives.  Should you wish to comment, please contact Barbara Kemmis, ATLA Director of Member Services, by e-mail (bkemmis@atla.com) or phone her at 888/665-2852.