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Research  The RTS Libraries offer several online resources for research. Those resources that require a password are for the use of current RTS students, faculty, and staff only. Please contact your campus librarian for password login information. | Web Resources | Our listing of online resources for theological research, including links to many online journals. | ATLA Periodical Index + ATLAS full text Journals (Password Required) | The ATLA Religion Database Index is an essential tool for the study of religion. It is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. The more than 1,315,000 records in the ATLA Religion Database include journal articles, essays from multi-author works, and book reviews. Over 1,500 journal titles are currently indexed.
ATLAS is a full-text 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 1949 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLA Serials as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than fifty different journals, which includes more than 100,000 entries (including articles and book reviews). | Old Testament Abstracts & New Testament Abstracts (Password Required) | Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
New Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985. | Religious & Theological Abstracts (Password Required) Click on "Search R&TA" to login | R&TA provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology since 1958. Listed are a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provide English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. | | TREN | The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 7,800 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies, including:
- Evangelical Theological Society
- American Society of Church History
- Society for Pentecostal Studies
- North American Patristic Society
- American Catholic Historical Association
Many of these titles are in the RTS Library Collections (search). Other titles can be ordered online. (NOTE to Charlotte students: ask library staff how to obtain TREN e-docs for free online.) |
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