Transcript Finding Essays in Books using the ATLA Religion Database

Find an Essay in a Book
Using Sophi Search or the
ATLA Religion Database
Where to search
1. Start on the
Research Tools page
of the library web site
2b. OR click “Access
EBSCO’s ATLA” under
the Databases tab to
just search the ATLA
Religion Database in
EBSCOhost
2a. Then use the All tab
in Sophi Search to
search across all our
databases (including
ATLA).
One of the types of publications indexed in our
databases is collections of essays in books.
Conduct your
search as you
normally would up
here.
To limit the search to
essays in books,
select “Essay” as the
Publication Type
Note: Limiting to essays is
not available in Sophi
Search, but the next slides
will show you how to
identify books with essays
in your search results.
Here is an example of a citation for a book
that contains a collection of essays:
In ATLA
Note that the
publication type is
“Book.”
In Sophi Search
The full record for this book includes a list of
the essays that it contains under “Contents.”
Here is a partial view:
In ATLA
In Sophi Search
Information on individual
essays in the book is
listed here.
Each of the essays listed in the contents also has
its own citation. Here is the citation for the essay
“The space between earth and heaven.”
In ATLA
The Source is With
wisdom seeking God, the
book from our first
citation.
This tells us that the
essay by Paulsell can
be found on pages 1123 of the book.
Note that the Publication
Type is Essay, because
this is one essay in the
larger book.
In Sophi Search
Note: You can tell this essay
is not available in full text
online because there is no full
text PDF or HTML link. On
the next slide we’ll see how to
search for the print book.
To see if our library has a copy of the
print book, you can:
1. Open the Joint Library online catalog
at http://voyager.austinseminary.edu (or
click on the link from the library web site)
Click on “Basic
catalog search”
to go to the
search screen
OR 2a. Search in the Library Catalog tab
of the Sophi Search box.
OR 2b. Limit your search in the Sophi
Search interface to “Catalog Only”
Do a title search of the book title (not the
essay title) by entering the title into the
“Search” box with the “Title” field selected.
In ATLA
In Sophi Search
OR
In this case, Stitt Library does
have the book!
In Catalog
“APTS Stacks” means the
book is at Austin Seminary
and not Seminary of the
Southwest.
Write down the full Call Number of
the book – you will use it to find the
book on the shelf.
Note that the Status of the
book is Not Charged (or
Available), which means that
the book is not checked out.
In Sophi Search
After you have the full call number, you can use the
maps on the following slides to locate the BV 4511
section of the library.
Note that
these maps
are also
available on
the web site!
Any Questions?
• Stop by the Circulation Desk.
• OR: email
[email protected]