Databases

Currently enrolled RTS students have campus-wide and remote access to the library’s subscription databases specific to their campus. Links to each database are provided below under “Finding Books” and “Finding Articles,” followed by a detailed listing of each database.

  • The PBSC and PsycARTICLES databases are only accessible by the Jackson and Orlando campuses, and MAC students should request remote access instructions from their library staff.
  • If you are an RTS Alumni, please contact the library staff on your graduating campus for instructions on accessing the Alumni ATLA/S account.

How to Sign-In 
To access a database off-campus, use one of the database links below. At the RTS Sign-in page, use your student.rts.edu or rts.edu account e-mail and password.  Once you have signed-in, you will forward to the database you selected.

Your RTS account, or a personal EBSCO account, will not work at the EBSCOHost sign-in.

 

FINDING BOOKS

RTS Library Catalog

EBSCO E-Book Collection

ProQuest Religion & Philosophy E-Book Collection

Digital Loeb Classical Library

Digital Karl Barth Library

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Login instructions below)

Trismegistos / Leuven Database of Ancient Books (Expires January 1st, 2025)

 

FINDING ARTICLES

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS

ATLASerials, Religion Collection

Old Testament Abstracts

New Testament Abstracts

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection *

APA PsycARTICLES *

ATLA/S for ALUMNI

* Only accessible to currently enrolled Jackson and Orlando MAC students.


 

 DATABASE DESCRIPTIONS

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS & ATLASerials, Religion Collection

The ATLA Religion Databases are an essential tool for research in theology, biblical studies, and church history. It is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. The more than 1,315,000 records in the ATLA Religion Database include journal articles, essays from multi-author works, and book reviews. Over 1,500 journal titles are currently indexed. ATLA/S is a full-text online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from 1949 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLA Serials as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than fifty different journals, which includes more than 100,000 entries (including articles and book reviews).  RTS graduates are also eligible for the ATLA/S for ALUM program and must contact their library for alumni login details.  Help using EBSCOHost may be found here.  For help using the ATLA series of databases, please see this helpful Libguide.

 

Old Testament & New Testament Abstracts

Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.  New Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985. Help using EBSCOHost may be found here.

 

EBSCO E-Book Collection

Currently, the RTS libraries have added over 4,200 e-books to the library catalog.  They are accessible through the EBSCO E-Book collection database, as well as through their records in library catalog.  You only need to  select “PDF Full Text” or “EPUB Full Text” to access an e-book.  If you need to view an e-book offline, contact your library staff about the item’s availability and software requirements.  Please refer to the libguide on accessing e-books, and for EBSCO e-books, see their helpful user guide.

 

ProQuest Religion & Philosophy E-Book Collection

ProQuest offers the largest high-quality, aggregated e-book subscription in religion and philosophy with more than 16,000 carefully curated e-books with anytime, anywhere access. Spanning topics such as philosophy, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, criticism and interpretation of The Bible, and religious history, beliefs, ethics, culture, politics, and more, the subscription provides a solid base of religious content that meets the research needs of students and scholars alike.  Titles can be read online or checked out to be read offline.  Help using ProQuest may be found here.

 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Orlando and Jackson MAC students)

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in PsycINFO. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.

Content includes:

  • More than 480 full-text journals and
  • More than 300 full-text journals with citations in PsycINFO.

When you are off-campus, the EBSCOhost platform that includes the Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection requires a separate set of login credentials that you will enter at the EBSCOHost login screen. For Jackson students, please send a request with your name and student id to library.jackson@rts.edu to receive the current login id and password. For Orlando students, please send a request to library.orlando@rts.edu to receive your login credentials.

 

APA PsycARTICLES (Orlando and Jackson MAC students)

The premier database of full text peer-reviewed articles published by APA and affiliated journals.

With current journal coverage and historical content dating back more than a century, this esteemed collection provides access to the full spectrum of research in the field and is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and educators.

When you are off-campus, the EBSCOhost platform that includes the APA PsycArticles requires a separate set of login credentials that you will enter at the EBSCOHost login screen. For Jackson students, please send a request with your name and student id to library.jackson@rts.edu to receive the current login id and password. For Orlando students, please send a request to library.orlando@rts.edu to receive your login credentials.

 

Digital Loeb Classical Library

The Digital Loeb Classical Library is designed to make Classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. It presents an interconnected, fully searchable, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture— with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available.  Help using the Loeb Classical Library may be found here.

 

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Since its inception, the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. The Online TLG contains more than 110 million words from over 10,000 works associated with 4,000 authors and is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts.

To access the database, click on the link above. You will need to register a new account once at the TLG website. You will then receive an email from TLG with a link to confirm registration.

 

Trismegistos / Leuven Database of Ancient Books

The LDAB database attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts, as opposed to documents, not only in Latin and Greek, but in all ancient languages. Cuneiform is not yet covered, nor are the Egyptian Books of the Dead. At present, it includes 16982 items, dating from the fourth century B.C. to A.D. 800 and incorporating authors from Homer (8th cent. B.C.) to Romanus Melodus and Gregorius the Great (6th cent. A.D.), including 3671 texts of which the author is unknown.  Expires January 1, 2025.

 

Digital Karl Barth Library

The current release features Barth’s magnum opus, Die kirchliche Dogmatik, in its entirety. Also featured are the first 36 volumes of Barth’s Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. These volumes are supplemented by seven additional German works that have not yet been published as part of the Gesamtausgabe and English translations of twelve important texts by Barth. New content will be added on a quarterly basis.  Help using the Digital Karl Barth Library may be found here.

 

ATLA/S for ALUMNI

This subscription provides access to the full-text module of the ATLA/S database for RTS Alumni who have graduated with a degree. You must contact the campus from which you graduated to obtain the login & password information.