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Databases

ATLA Serials Religion Plus This link opens in a new window Restricted to current students, faculty, and staff. Alumni, see ATLASerials for Alum
ATLAS PLUS provides expanded access to the full text of 450 journals, as well as indexing for a total of 2,000 journals.
Book Catalog (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
The library book catalog also known as the Eastern Cluster Catalog Online (ECCO)
JSTOR Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
A collection of full-text journals, with access, from Vol. 1, Issue 1.
OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new window Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
OmniFile Full Text Select is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text for articles from over 2,500 journals and periodicals.
Luther's Works in English This link opens in a new window Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
The American Edition of Luther's Works, including volumes 1 - 55.
Religion and the Law This link opens in a new window Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
Religion and the Law includes over 2,300 titles, including works on Religion & Freedom, Jewish Law, Canon Law, Religion & Politics, The Bible & Public Schools, and History of Church & State.
WorldCat Discovery (All Content) This link opens in a new window Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
WorldCat Discovery (All Content) is the full database of all content WorldCat indexes, which includes articles, books, videos, and more.
WorldCat Books This link opens in a new window
Search the world's books, journals, and dissertations from one location!
ULS Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
A Collection of materials digitized by the ULS Library for public use, including videos of major events at ULS, manuscript collections, and PDFs of historic seminary publications.
Search the ULS Archives This link opens in a new window
A catalog of the manuscript collections head by United Lutheran Seminary and the Region 8 Archives of the ELCA.
ULS Lifelong Learning Videos This link opens in a new window
Videos produced by ULS and hosted on YouTube. This is a hierarchical way to view videos, based on topic and year of the event.
ATLA Serials for Alum This link opens in a new window Alumni of the seminary and its predecessor seminaries must contact the Alumni Relations Office for login information.
The ATLA Serials Religion database available to ULS, LTSG, LTSP Alums.
Find a Journal This link opens in a new window
Find all online journals available to students, faculty, staff and on campus visitors to ULS.
Databases A to Z This link opens in a new window
Not seeing the database you're looking for? Search for the database here. This link will take you to a search that will allow you to find all the databases the ULS library provides access to.

To access the library's subscription based content from off campus, please log in using your ULS email username and password when prompted.

Not finding what you're looking for in the databases?

Follow the link below to find tutorials for using the databases:

Navigating Databases

Research Guides

Welcome to United Lutheran Seminary's Library Website!

We hope that we can help you in all your research needs.

If you know the name of the database you would like to use, click here to see an A-Z list of all available databases ULS subscribes to. Otherwise, look to the left for a list of key databases.

Listed on the left, you can find the tools we recommend for research in various subject areas. Eventually, each guide will have a short description of the kinds of information accessible to you, a few key starting points, and a list of all relevant databases and websites to your topic.

The ULS library provides joint library services to seminary students at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary through the Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries. A wealth of resources are available to all our users; even without LTSS, the library is one of the largest independent seminary libraries in the United States, with over 380,000 volumes available to researchers and an additional 123,000 available at Southern. We are slowly growing our digital collections, with over 30,000 purchased ebooks for students, faculty, and staff and 57,000 open access and out of copyright ebooks available to the public in our Book Catalog . In addition, the library provides access to over 1,700 ejournals through ATLASerials Religion PLUS and JSTOR for current research and over 5,000 historic journals in electronic format(American Antiquarian Society Periodicals, 1684-1912 and Accessible Archives ).

Library Covid-19 Information

MASKS are optional in the ULS Library. As always, the Library’s 40,000 ebooks and multiple research databases remain fully accessible to ULS students, faculty, and staff from their homes. Users can continue to request print books and article scans from the Library staff by emailing library@uls.edu

Check out the Library COVID-19 Information page for further details. We continue to offer books by mail and article scanning upon request to all users, regardless of distance from campus.

Library COVID-19 Response Page has further information about the Library's current status and future planning.
Please also regularly check the Seminary's COVID-19 Update Page for complete information on ULS's response to COVID-19.

Branches United: The ULS Library's Blog

Blog Homepage: https://branchesunited.wordpress.com

Check Out Our new Books

New eBooks

ULS eResources

Cluster eResources

New books at A.R. Wentz Library Gettysburg

Books published since 2017, sorted with newest additions first for the Gettysburg Branch can be found at this weblink:

New Gettysburg Books

New books at Krauth Memorial Library Philadelphia

Books published since 2017, sorted with newest additions first for the Philadelphia Branch can be found at this weblink:

New Philadelphia Books

Collection Development Policy:

The Collection Development Policy of the ULS Library can be downloaded at the link below:

Collection Development Policy

Archives at ULS

The United Lutheran Seminary Library contains two major archives: The ELCA Region 8 Archives and the ULS Seminary Archives.
Both of these archives are held in the A.R. Wentz Branch of the United Lutheran Seminary Library in Gettysburg, PA.

For Church Records, click here.

Click here for Digital Collections

The ULS digital collection includes

Lutheran Periodicals
Proceedings of Lutheran bodies
Class Photos from LTSG, LTSP, and ULS
Urban Theological Institute Preaching with Power sermons
Commencement and Convocation videos
Luther Colloquy lectures

ULS Writing Center

The Writing Center provides research assistance, writing skills development, editorial assistance, and more. Contact us at library@uls.edu to schedule an appointment which we will schedule within five business days. Please include in your email the assignment or paper prompt. We will review up to ten pages of text per assignment. For more information, go to https://library.uls.edu/writing_center/home.

Library Hours

Fall 2023 Hours:

Gettysburg:

Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM -4:00 PM

Closed Saturday and Sunday

Philadelphia:

Monday - Tuesday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wednesday 10:00AM to 6:30 PM
Thursday - Friday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Closed Saturday and Sunday

Library Closed:

Monday, September 4th (Labor Day)
Wednesday, November 22nd at 12 Noon -Friday, November 24 (Thanksgiving)
Thursday, December 21st at 12 Noon- Monday, January 1 (Christmas & New Year)

Book Requests

Cluster Request Form

Request Interlibrary Loan

Home Delivery Request

Contact Us

Krauth Memorial Branch
7301 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-248-6329
Wentz Memorial Branch
61 Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-338-3014
library@uls.edu

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