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Tutor: Mark Hangartner

Librarian – Colin Library, Te Kupenga – Catholic Theological College

(Note: Te Kupenga has been formed by the merger of Good Shepherd College & The Catholic Institute)

20 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, PO Box 3440, Auckland 1140

0277153987 library@ctc.ac.nz Website: http://www.ctc.ac.nz

ATLA Religion

Index using

EBSCO

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course you will find theology articles by knowing how to:

▪ Search by keyword ▪ Search for images ▪ Print / Email / Save your search results ▪ Limit and expand your searches ▪ Use search history and email alerts ▪ Use online help and search tips

mailto:library@ctc.ac.nzhttp://www.ctc.ac.nz/

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Contents Accessing ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials .......................................... 3

Why choose ATLA Religion Database ..................................................................... 3

Searching EBSCOhost .............................................................................................. 3

Advanced Keyword Search ................................................................................. 3

Boolean Operators and Truncation Signs in EBSCOhost ...................................... 3

Limiting or Expanding Your Search Results ..................................................... 4

Limiting your search results ................................................................................... 4

Search Results ..................................................................................................... 4

Citation and records ............................................................................................... 4

EBSCOhost article formats – HTML and PDF ....................................................... 5

Adding articles to a folder ...................................................................................... 7

Printing, emailing and saving your search results .................................................. 7

EBSCOhost Account and Alerts ............................................................................... 8

Creating a Free Personal Account in EBSCOhost ............................................ 8

Saving Your Search Alerts .................................................................................. 8

Setting Up New Issue Alerts ............................................................................... 9

New issue alerts via publications list ...................................................................... 9

Summary of EBSCOhost ................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

Ebsco Ebooks .......................................................................................................... 10

Last Update: March 2020

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A full-text version of the ATLA Religion Database, which indexes 650 journals (more than 490 journals fulltext) and other multi-author publications in the area of Biblical Studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues..

Accessing ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

https://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/library-a-resources/useful-links

choose ATLA RELIGION DATABASE WITH ATLASerials PLUS

Log in with your Veech Login

Why choose ATLA Religion Database

• Principal index for theology and religious studies

• Access to many full text articles – the database will deliver articles to your desktop.

• Access to peer reviewed professional articles.

• Allows searching for images and maps.

Searching EBSCOhost

Advanced Keyword Search

Advanced Keyword Search is the default search – you get this search option as soon

as you hit the Connect or Continue buttons.

Use Boolean operators to connect keywords in each search box. Use truncation signs

to search for all possible word endings.

Boolean Operators and Truncation Signs in EBSCOhost

“ ” Searches for the phrase: "priestly formation"

Subject headings are often phrases e.g. Politics and Christianity;

* Searches for stem term only:

apocalyp* finds apocalypse, apocalyptic, apocalypticism etc

? Replaces a single character:

wom?n searches for woman and women

and

or

not

Searches for both terms: eschatology and millennialism

Searches for either of the terms: Septuagint or Hebrew Scriptures

Excludes one of the terms: science not creationis*

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Exercise 1: Search for articles about Images of Women.

Analyse the concepts and think of alternative terms:

Freetext examples: representations of women; film, art, novels

Subject headings in ATLA Women in the Bible;

Step 1: Do a comparison search: in Subject field.

Step 2: Combine these e.g.

Limiting or Expanding Your Search Results

Limiting your search results

You can always limit your search results by clicking the tab. From here you can limit your search results to: ▪ full text only ▪ articles published in scholarly journals only ▪ a particular journal ▪ within a certain period of time

Exercise 2: Limit your search to (gift of tongues in default or glossolalia in Subject) .

Choose to refine your search

Choose to search using the scripture citation field

E.g. to find articles about Jerusalem which cite either Book of Kings:

If you want to be more precise about the scripture reference you

must follow the unusal citing style e.g. Kings, 2nd 22 means 2 Kings 22.

Another approach is to use the indexes button and type in the

book and chapter you want, then select from the browse list,

click on Add, then on Search e.g. looking for Deuteronomy 8

verses 1-10.

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Search Results

Citation and records

The citations of the articles will be displayed in the search

results. The citation provides bibliographic information about

the article. It normally includes article title, author and source

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(journal title, date of publication, volume, issue, page numbers).

EBSCOhost article formats – HTML and PDF

Records in EBSCOhost may be available in several formats:

The link will show you all our holdings from Voyager, both print and electronic.

OR

Click on the

title link

Citation

The citation includes the article’s author, title and where

the article was published, as well as an abstract (brief

summary of the article) Where available it continues with

the Full Text.

HTML

Full Text

without

graphics

The HTML Full Text (without graphics) format

includes the citation and abstract, along with the complete

text of the article. It does not include graphics such as

photographs, illustrations or charts that were originally

published with the article.

PDF

Full Text

The PDF Full Text format is a scanned image of the

article pages as they were originally printed, delivered in

PDF – Portable Document Format. The benefits of this

version include: page numbering of the printed

publication, compact font size that is easier to read and

often uses fewer pages when printed.

An example of Citation format:

Citation: title, author and source

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An example of PDF format:

PDF format is good for printing. HTML format is good for viewing online and for

saving onto disk.

Note this display shows exact page numbers.

This option will take you to

another database with

download options

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Adding articles to a folder

If you are interested in several articles, you can add them to a folder then print, email

or save them all at the same time.

1. On the search results page and tick the icon next to each title. This will add the articles to a folder.

2. Click on the link at the top of the search results page.

3. Only the articles that you have ticked are displayed in the folder. You can now print, email or save them all at the same time.

Printing, emailing and saving your search results

You can print, email or save an article or all the articles in your folder by clicking on

the following icons:

: print article(s)

: email article(s)

: save article(s) onto a disk or USB drive. G drive

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EBSCOhost Account and Alerts

In EBSCOhost you can set up a free EBSCO account to check your saved searches,

search alerts, journal alerts, etc.

Creating a Free Personal Account in EBSCOhost

1. Click on at the top right hand side of the EBSCOhost search screen.

2. Click on on the next screen.

3. Fill in the online form

Saving Your Search Alerts

1. Click on the tab in the second half of the search screen.

2. Click on to save your searches (login if you haven’t

already). You can save your searches: ▪ Permanently

▪ Temporarily (24 hours) or

Please remember your username and password for your EBSCOhost

account.

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▪ As an email alert – you will receive an email alert of your last search result

3. Once you login to your personal account, you can also:

▪ : open, edit or re-run your saved searches

▪ : open and edit your saved alerts

Before your alert expires, you will receive an email reminder to renew it:

Setting Up New Issue Alerts

You can set up new journal issue alerts in two ways: publications list or journal

search. First Log in to the database.

New issue alerts via publications list

This option is only available in some EBSCOhost databases.

1. Click on the tab.

2. Click the journal title that you would like to receive new issue alerts for.

3. Fill in the online form

4. Click

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To get updates on a subject begin from the Advanced Search, apply limits as needed

e.g. This is a search for reviews of books about contextual theology, where the full

text is available in the database.

Ebsco Ebooks

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