Searching the ATLA Religion Database Knox Theological Seminary Darcy Gullacher, Reference Librarian November 14, 2002

Last Week We Covered: Library catalogue How to Find Books and Journals

Goals Introduce the ATLA Religion Database and ATLA Serials Project Show Basic Searching Techniques Using Boolean Operators Show how to read the citations and access the articles you need

ATLA Religion Database Comprehensive Index of Journal Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews in Religion Records go back to 1949 Currently Indexes over 600 journals in over 36 languages Over 1.2 million records

ATLA Serials Project Project designed to give access to scanned, full text copies of journal articles. Currently there are about 90,000 articles available Linked to the ATLA Database

Access Through the University of Alberta Libraries Website

Boolean Operators When searching for information, Boolean Operators are used to broaden or narrow a search

“And” Will only give results where both the terms are in the record I.e “Barth” and “Christology”

“Or” Will give results when either one of the terms is in the record I.e. “Barth” or “Christology”

Parentheses Will look for all the terms located in the parenthesis first I.e. (Christology or Christ) and Barth ( )

Luther and His Thought on Communion

Where is More Information? “A Guide to the ATLA Religion Database” PowerPoint Tutorial

Next Week Advanced Search Features Truncation and Wildcards

Contact Information Darcy Gullacher Reference Librarian Phone: (780)