Navigating Databases

• ATLASerials Religion PLUS
  ATLAS PLUS provides expanded access to the full text of 450 journals, as well as indexing for a total of 2,000 journals.  
  Note: Restricted to current students, faculty, and staff. Alumni, see ATLASerials for Alum
• Old Testament Abstracts
  A index of abstracts in Old Testament literature. Login as you would to ATLA.
  Note: Access: Current students, faculty, staff, on campus visitors
• New Testament Abstracts
  An index to abstracts on New Testament research. Access this as you would ATLA.
  Note: Access: Current students, faculty, staff, on campus visitors
• American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals, 1684-1820
  The most comprehensive collection of historical periodicals published in America between 1684 and 1912.
  Note: Access: current students, faculty, staff, on campus visitors
• ATLASerials for Alum
  
  Note: Alumni of the seminary and its predecessor seminaries must contact the Alumni Relations Office for login informaiton.

Your access to JSTOR is limited to about 600 of the 2,300 journals available. All JSTOR title coverage goes back to the first issue of each journal. Coverage most often ends five years in the past, but some titles offer access to more recent content and others still ended participation and have no new content coming in. 
JSTOR is useful for students doing research in the social sciences, religion, and history. Nearly all titles in its collection are peer reviewed, however not every article within each journal is peer reviewed.

• JSTOR
  A collection of full-text access, from Vol. 1, Issue 1, of journals. 
  Note: Access: current students, faculty, staff, and on campus visitors
• Find a Journal
  Find all online journals available to students, faculty, and staff at ULS.
  Note: Find all online journals available to students, faculty, staff and on campus visitors.

JSTOR allows you to both read the article online as single-page images or download the PDF of the article. When you click "Download the PDF" a pop-up saying "Accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions Below." Click "I accept, proceed to download" to download the PDF. The JSTOR terms & conditions mean that you won't share the article on the open web, use JSTOR for commercial purposes or financial gain, systematically download the entire contents of JSTOR, and you will abide by US Copyright law, among other things.

There are two search forms on JSTOR.org, a Basic Search (JSTOR ) and an Advanced Search.
Using Advanced Search:

• Use the drop-down boxes to limit search terms to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.
• Use the drop-down boxes to combine search terms using the Boolean operators, AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator looks for the combinations of keywords within 5, 10, or 25 words places of each other. The NEAR operator only works when searching for single keyword combinations. For example, you may search for cat NEAR 5 dog, but not "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.
• Use the “Narrow by” options to search only articles, include/exclude book reviews, search for content published during a particular time frame, or in a particular language.
• Focus an article search in specific disciplines and titles using checkboxes.

WorldCat Discovery (All Content)  offers students, faculty, staff, and off-campus visitors an opportunity to search nearly all of the library's collection of print and online resources through one interface. WorldCat replaces an older tool, OCLC FirstSearch , which is still available for those that feel more comfortable with its search interface.
Alternative ways of accessing WorldCat include:

• WorldCat Books  for searching books only.
• WorldCat Dissertations  to see dissertations and theses only.

The majority of the library's purchased online ebooks come from Oxford University Press. This collection of scholarship provides users with both in-depth coverage (through products like Oxford Scholarship Online ) and overview of topics (such as in Oxford Handbooks Online  and Oxford Very Short Introductions ).

• Oxford Biblical Studies Online
  OBSO provides extensive information on the study of the Bible and biblical history. OBSO integrates authoritative scholarly texts, references works, and student study bibles, offering a wealth of Bible text and commentary.
• Oxford Handbooks Online
  Oxford Handbooks offer introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in over 80 topical areas.
• Oxford Scholarship Online
  Access nearly 2,000 recent scholary books published by Oxford University Press at this link or through the library catalog. All areas of religious research are included.
• Oxford Very Short Introductions
  The ULS Library offers current students, faculty, and staff electronic access to 59 Very Short Introductions in religion, which offer concise introductions to important topics.
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Religion
  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.
• Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies
  OBO offers over 200 bibliographies on topics related to the study of the bible. 
• Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies
  OBO offers over 150 bibliographies on topics in Jewish Studies, including historic figures, Jewish culture (US and Europe), the Shoah, and modern Jewish politics.
• Oxford Bibliographies in the Renaissance and Reformation
  Providing bibliographies on over 340 topics,Oxford Bibliographies in the Renaissance and Reformation cover a broad spectrum of topics in global history, with a special focus on Europe.

The ULS Library utilizes Project Muse to provide students, faculty, and staff with access to roughly 2,000 ebooks in PDF format. Muse is a non-profit based at Johns Hopkins University and provides access to the ebooks from many academic/university-based presses, including over 500 titles from Augsburg Fortress Publishers (1517 Media).

ACLS Humanities ebooks offers our community over 5,000 ebook titles from leading, global academic presses. These titles have recently been moved to a new platform. While you're welcome to search & browse its site, ACLS Humanities ebooks , there are no new search or user tutorials available yet.

The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception offers researchers extensive background information on places, people, and things found throughout the Bible and how scholars and the church has interpreted those things (and individual books) through time. It will ultimately include over 14,000 articles, but is only about halfway through the alphabet at this time.