Luther Rice University Bertha Smith Library

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Luther Rice UniversityBertha Smith Library

• Learning to Use
• ATLAS

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In this tutorial, you will learn . . .
What ATLAS is,
How to access ATLAS,
How to quickly and efficiently search ATLAS, and
How to read and print articles from ATLAS
Been through the tutorial before? Click the links
to go directly to the corresponding sections.
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What is ATLAS?
ATLASerials (ATLAS) is an online collection of
major religion and theology journals selected by
leading religion scholars and theologians.  ATLAS
users can read articles or research the history
of a topic from as early as 1924 to the present.
Researchers may search ATLA citations, or browse
ATLASerials to retrieve images of the pages of
journals.
ATLAS contains over 80 well known journals,
including
Bibliotheca Sacra
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Interpretation
Novum testamentum
Review and Expositor
Theology Today
And more!
Church History
From ATLAS help page
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Accessing ATLAS
There are two ways to access ATLAS
On Campus
Online

• Go to the LRU Library website
• From the Main Menu choose
• Frequently Used Databases
• Click on the ATLAS link
• Login by using your username and
• Password .

• Find any available Library or Computer Lab
  terminal,
• Go to the LRU Library website
• 3. Double-click the ATLAS
• oncampus link on the Frequently
• Used Databases page.

• Go to the LRU Library website
• From the Main Menu choose
• Frequently Used Databases
• Click on the ATLAS link
• Login by using your username and
• Password .

• Go to the LRU Library website
• From the Main Menu choose
• Frequently Used Databases
• Click on the ATLAS link
• Login by using your username and
• Password .

You may have to hold CTRL while clicking if you
have Internet Explorer Popup Blocker enabled
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ATLAS Layout
ATLAS provides you with a very simple layout that
is quick and easy to use.
The Main Menu lets you choose where you want to
be in the ATLAS database.
The Help tab takes you to the help page. It
offers a general introduction to Atlas, including
technical informationsuch as logging in and
browser settingsto general informationsuch as
search and access procedures. It is definitely
recommended reading!
The Browse Journals tab takes you to a complete
list of journals available through ATLAS, which
you can browse at your convenience.
The Search tab takes you to the main search
page as seen at the right. Do NOT click this
after entering your search terms, as it will
refresh the page and lose your information.
The Exit Atlas tab does exactly that. It logs
you off of ATLAS.
These are the search fields available in ATLAS
that you can use to locate material.
Enter your search terms into these search bars.
Limit your search results by year or type of
publication.
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Searching ATLAS
If you arent at the search page, click the
Search tab in the Main Menu.
Then enter your search terms in the appropriate
field.
You can search by Keyword . . .
Journal . . .
Author . . .
Title . . .
Language . . .
Record . . .
Subject . . .
Scripture passage . . .
Or ISSN . . .
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Searching ATLAS
Use Boolean Operators to expand your search
capabilities
AND searches for both words in a given field
NOT searches for the first word in a given field,
but not the second
OR searches for either word in a given field
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Searching ATLAS
You can also truncate words to help you search
Use (Shift 8) after a word to find all
possible variations.
Hist will find all occurrences of history,
historical, and historicity
Bapt will find all occurrences of baptize,
baptism, baptist, etc.
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Searching ATLAS
Enter search terms in multiple fields to focus
your searches
Limit your searches to focus your results.
Click Submit Search, and wait for your results
. . .
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Search Tips
Be sure you know how to use each of the search
fields correctly to maximize your searchs
potential Keyword Use this field to retrieve
an article or review with a particular word or
phrase any where within the full citation with
the exception of Language, Scripture Passage,
Year or Record type. Language, Scripture Passage,
Year or Record Type terms should be searched in
other fields or as limiters. Author/Editor
Use this field to retrieve an article or review
by a particular author, editor, translator, or
reviewer. Both individual personal names and
collective corporate names are included in this
Search Field. Personal names are usually indexed
in the inverted form last name, first name
middle name (or middle initial).   Title Use
this field to retrieve an article, review or
serial description with a particular word or
phrase within its cited title. Subjects Use
this field to retrieve an article that has been
assigned a particular ATLA subject heading.
Scripture subject headings are included under the
heading Bible? Personal name subject headings
are included, as well as fictional and mythical
characters.
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Search Tips
Scripture Passages Use this field to retrieve
an article that makes reference to a particular
scripture passage. Most references indexed in
this field are canonical there are very few
apocryphal references. It is possible to
construct a search that specifies a scriptural
book, chapter, and/or range of verses. Multiple
biblical books require that the number of the
book being searched be spelled out prior to the
name of the book. Example Genesis 1
1-20Result Returns records discussing the first
chapter of the book Genesis, verses one through
twenty. Example Matthew-JohnResult Returns
all records discussing the book Matthew through
and including the book John. Example First
Kings 2-7Result Returns all records discussing
the first book of Kings, verses two through
seven. Example First Kings 2-Second Kings
1Result Returns all records discussing the
second chapter of the first book of Kings through
the first chapter of the second book of Kings.
Citations referencing specific scriptural
passages are also indexed in the Subjects data
field under the heading Bible? Because indexing
practices vary between the two data fields, a
search for the same scripture citation in the
Subjects and Scripture Passage fields may not
yield identical results. It may be profitable to
perform a scripture search using both fields.
  Journal Use this field to retrieve an
article or review published in a specific journal
or journal issue. This field can also be used to
retrieve the serial record of a specific journal.
  Language Use this field to retrieve an
article or review written in a specific language.
 
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Search Tips
Record Use this field to retrieve article,
review or serials records assigned a unique
number by ATLA. Records that indicate a
relationship with another record will also be
retrieved when that records unique number is
searched.   ISSN Use this field to retrieve
serial records, or articles and reviews within a
serial publication with a given International
Standard Serial Number.   Limiters Year Use
this field to retrieve an article or review
published in a particular year or a serial that
started in a specific year. The pull-down menu
allows for selection of the type of year input
All years, Greater than (a specified year), Less
than (a specified year), Equal to (a specified
year), or a range (of specified years).
  Limiters Type Use this field to retrieve
specific types of records. There are three
possible record types. Article Retrieves ATLA
citations of articles and other journal contents
along with the link to the available images of
that material. Review Retrieves ATLA
citations of reviews within journals along with
the link to the available images of that
material.   Serial Retrieves ATLA citations
describing journal titles and their relationship
to other journal titles along with links to the
volume list of the ATLAS coverage for that title.
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Search Tips
Use Boolean Operators to refine your searches.
ATLAS recognizes the operators AND, NOT, and
OR. AND Finds articles with both words in the
selected field. OR Finds articles with either
word in the selected field. NOT Finds articles
with the first word, but not the second, in the
selected field. Truncate words to broaden you
search results. In ATLAS, the truncation symbol
is Example Bap or Bapt or BaptisResult
Retrieves records that contain the words Baptist,
Baptism, Baptismal, etc. Example SpaResult
Retrieves records that contain the words Spain,
Spanish, Spaniard, etc. Alternatively, it is
also possible to enter the "" symbol within a
word in order to retrieve an increased result
set. Example womnResult Retrieves records
that contain the words woman, women, womyn.
Example analye Result Retrieves records that
contain either the word analyze or analyse
Note ATLA recommends use of truncation
searching only in the following fields Keyword,
Author/Editor, Title, Subjects, Journal, and
ISSN. Truncation cannot be used in the Scripture
Search. Use Phrase Searching to find exact
matches. Simply put the search terms in quotation
marks. Note that Boolean Operators within
quotations are treated as part of the
phrase. Example 'philosophy or
miracles'Result Retrieves records that include
the exact phrase "philosophy or miracles".
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Browsing by Journal
ATLAS also allows you to browse the various
publication titles it indexes. Simply click the
Browse Journals tab in the Main Menu.
A new screen will come up showing a complete list
of journal titles available. To access a
publication, just click the title.
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Accessing and reading Articles
In this last section, we will deal with how to
access the documents found in your searches and
what you can do with them.
Suppose we want to research general revelation.
Our search may look like this . . .
And our results like this . . .
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Accessing and reading Articles
We decide the second article looks the most
promising.
First, we access the bibliographic information by
clicking Complete Citation.
From there, we can get such information as the
Author, ISSN, Record , etc.
We can read the actual article by clicking View
Article.
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Accessing and reading Articles
To print the article or page use ATLAS Print
feature (NOT your browsers print command!)
To move forward or backward, use the page
navigation buttons.
The single arrows move forward or backward one
page
The double arrows move to the first and last
pages of the journal.
To see what other articles are available in this
issue of the journal, click the Table of
Contents icon.
And to view the other issues available in this
journal of the same year, click the Issue List
icon.
To go to a specific page in this issue, type the
number in the Go to Page bar and click GO
The full text of the article is available in the
reading window. Note that the article is in a
scanned format, so you view it page by page as in
a regular journal.
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Accessing and reading Articles
To print from ATLAS, input the range of pages you
want to print.
Then click Redisplay
The pages to be printed will appear in the print
preview window.
Then click Print.
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For further help . . .

• Congratulations! Youve completed the Bertha
  Smith ATLAS Tutorial. If you have any further
  questions, you can
• See the search tips section on the ATLAS search
  page,
• See the Guide to Searching Library Databases at
  any of the on-campus computer terminals,
• Request assistance from any of the Library staff,
  or
• Send questions to library_at_lru.edu or call
  770-484-1204 ext. 247.
• Happy searching!