Growth in Atla’s Global Full-text Catholic Content

The Atla products team strives to provide users with access to high-quality scholarship across many diverse perspectives. One way we do this is to regularly evaluate the makeup of our research tools and identify subject areas with opportunities for growth.

One area of recent focus for Atla has been scholarship about the study of global Catholicism, a particular growth area supported by the integration of the Atla Catholic Periodical and Literature Index^® (Atla CPLI^®) into the Atla Religion Database^® (Atla RDB^®) in 2017.

This integration was met with enthusiasm from the research and publishing communities allowing us to grow collaborations with international Catholic publishers. This includes expanding long-standing agreements with large content partners and developing exciting relationships with new publishers.

Recent Developments

Here are highlights of our increased scholarship in global Catholicism:

• The long-running Sisters Today sheds light on the life of women religious in 20^th century North America.
• Stimmen der Zeit, published by Herder, covers European Catholicism with printed issues dating back to the early 1900s.
• The agreement between Atla and Ateneo de Manila University Press, a Catholic press in the Philippines with two religion journals available in AtlaSerials^® (Atlas^®).
• The long-running Peruvian social and cultural chronicle Paginas joined AtlaSerials PLUS^® (Atlas PLUS^®) in the fall of 2017.
• The inclusion of Cambridge’s British Catholic History in Atlas PLUS, among several others.
• The 2018 announcement of multiple new partnerships in Rome including four new Catholic journals from Gregorian and Biblical Press and La Civiltà Cattolica, Italian Version.

And most recently at Atla Annual 2019 held this June in Vancouver, BC, Canada, staff shared that our full-text products now contain fifty-six full-text titles supporting Catholic scholarship in multiple languages. These titles come from several European countries as well as Asia, Australia, and South America.

A full list of all fifty-six full-text journals supporting Catholic scholarship as of June 2019 can be found here and the full Atla title lists can be found here: https://www.atla.com/research/title-lists/.