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Atla provides resources, collaboration opportunities, and research tools to promote worldwide scholarly communication in religion and theology.

Announcing Additions to Atla Products – December 2022

Atla is pleased to announce the addition of titles now available in the Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®), AtlaSerials® (Atlas®), and AtlaSerials PLUS® (Atlas PLUS®).

Atla Announces Selection of John F. Kutsko as Next Executive Director

August 4, 2022 – John F. Kutsko, current Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), will become Atla’s next Executive Director effective December…

Islamic Calligraphy: The Spirituality of a Sacred Scribal Art

The O’Toole Library of Saint Peter’s University received an Atla Library Impact Grant and used the funds to host artist and calligrapher Faraz Khan at a community event. Learn more about the event.

Metadata Profile: Meet Dr. Iskandar Bcheiry

Our new series introduces the experts behind the Atla Research Tools, the Atla Metadata Team. We kick off the series by introducing Dr. Iskandar Bcheiry, metadata editor, scholar, author, and priest.

Spotlight on Inclusive Subject Headings & Journals: Indigenous Peoples Headings (Part 2)

Learn more about Atla's metadata work to make subject headings more inclusive and to better identify scholarship about and by Indigenous peoples in the second part of our series.

Atla Announces Publication of Grant-Funded Open Educational Resource on Spiritual Direction

Funded by the Atla OER Grant Program, Books@Atla Open Press releases 'Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality' as an open access resource.

Member Spotlight – Álvaro Pérez

In this month's Member Spotlight, meet Álvaro Pérez, former Library Director at the Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana in Sabanilla, Costa Rica.

Atla Awards Digitization Grants 

This April, Atla awarded over $13,000 USD in grants to four institutions to digitize and describe their unique collections. Learn more about their projects and the digitization grant.

Announcing the Board Slate for 2023

The Nominating Committee has named a slate of candidates for the four director positions to be filled on the Board for the term 2023-2026.

Tools for the Study of Religion & Theology

Atla produces a variety of research tools for the study of religion and theology. Atla research tools are available through libraries who subscribe to our products, while resources developed collaboratively by Atla members are freely available to all. If you are looking for bibliographic information or full-text collections of journal articles covering diverse topics and languages, these tools are the place to start.

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