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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.
Catalog (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
The library book catalog also known as the Eastern Cluster Catalog Online (ECCO)
Flipster Digital Magazines
Find digital versions of Biblical Archaeology Review, Christian Century, and America here.
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.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
The ORE offers long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. Regularly updated, the ORE offers up-to-date information for any religion research looking for reliable information to understand an unfamiliar topic.
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.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther Restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther provides in-depth coverage of the cultural, political, economic and artistic contributions made by Luther. It features state-of-the-art articles by leading experts worldwide, and provides a guide to the secondary literature. It also considers Luther’s legacy in a global perspective. All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
Hermeneia Commentary Series Access restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and on campus guests.
ULS Library has online access to all fifty volumes in the Hermeneia series from Fortress Press.
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Restricted to Students, Faculty, Staff, and on campus visitors.
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Available Online
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.

When accessing subscription-based content from off campus, you will be prompted to login. Your username is the first part of your ULS email address (the letters before the @ symbol), and your password is the same as the password for your ULS email.

Forgot your email password? You can find more information here.

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

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

Navigating Databases

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

We are here to help you with your research.

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 ).

Research Guides

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

Writing Center Information

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.

Requests

Cluster Request Form

Request Interlibrary Loan

Home Delivery Request

The New York Times

Students, faculty, and staff of United Lutheran Seminary can now enjoy free New York Times—All Access. Go to www.accessnyt.com to register.

Access includes everything The New York Times offers:
News: Understand the world with original reporting from 1,700 journalists
Games: Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more.
Cooking: Recipes, advice and inspiration for any occasion.
Wirecutter: Independent reviews for thousands of products
The Athletic: In-depth, personalized sports journalism.

At www.accessnyt.com you will find clear instructions on how to gain access to the Times. If you have difficulties or questions about the process, please send an email to library@uls.edu.

Library Hours

Summer 2025 Hours:

Gettysburg:

Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Closed: Saturday and Sunday

Philadelphia:

Monday - Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Closed Saturday and Sunday

Library Closed:

May 26 - Memorial Day

June 19 - Juneteenth

July 4 - Independence Day

September 1 - Labor Day

November 26 - 28 - Thanksgiving Break

December 23 - January 1 - Christmas Break

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.

United Lutheran Seminary Library: Home

Welcome to United Lutheran Seminary's Library Website!

Flipster Magazines

Databases

When accessing subscription-based content from off campus, you will be prompted to login. Your username is the first part of your ULS email address (the letters before the @ symbol), and your password is the same as the password for your ULS email.

Forgot your email password? You can find more information here.

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

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

Contact Us

Search the Catalog (ECCO):

We are here to help you with your research.

Research Guides

Check Out Our new Books

New eBooks

New books at A.R. Wentz Library Gettysburg

New books at Krauth Memorial Library Philadelphia

Collection Development Policy:

Writing Center Information

ULS Writing Center

Requests

The New York Times

Library Hours

Library Hours

Summer 2025 Hours:

Gettysburg:

Philadelphia:

Archives at ULS