Searches among ATLA and Its Database Rivals: A Comparison Study of Search Results and Unique Results for Theological-Specific Research Questions

Q3 Arts and Humanities Journal of Religious and Theological Information Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI:10.1080/10477845.2022.2047381

Bret David Fearrien

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Abstract This original study formulates three hypothetical queries tailored to college-level theological research questions that focus on topics pertaining to biblical theology. The study runs searches for those queries in four religion-specific databases and two multidisciplinary databases in order to compare the total tally of peer-reviewed journal articles in each database along with the total unique results contained within each database. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials performed best for both objectives. Meanwhile, Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO) and Religion Database (ProQuest) proved helpful for some of the research queries. Consequently, Religion and Philosophy Collection (Gale) performed poorly for both objectives. The two multidisciplinary databases (Academic Search Complete and ProQuest Central) performed unevenly. ATLA represented the best choice if simply performing one search in a database; however, using all databases (other than Religion and Philosophy Collection, Gale), represented a stronger strategy for retrieving a high number of unique results, as the databases did not have a high number of shared resources.

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在ATLA及其数据库竞争对手之间的搜索:神学特定研究问题的搜索结果和独特结果的比较研究

摘要这项原始研究针对大学级别的神学研究问题提出了三个假设性问题，这些问题集中在与圣经神学有关的主题上。这项研究在四个宗教特定数据库和两个多学科数据库中搜索这些查询，以比较每个数据库中同行评审期刊文章的总数以及每个数据库中包含的唯一结果。ATLA宗教数据库和ATLA系列在这两个目标上表现最好。同时，《宗教与哲学汇编》（EBSCO）和《宗教数据库》（ProQuest）对一些研究问题也有帮助。因此，《宗教与哲学集》（Gale）在这两个方面都表现不佳。两个多学科数据库（Academic Search Complete和ProQuest Central）的表现参差不齐。如果只是在数据库中执行一次搜索，ATLA代表了最佳选择；然而，使用所有数据库（除了宗教和哲学收藏，Gale）代表了检索大量独特结果的更强有力的策略，因为这些数据库没有大量的共享资源。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Religious & Theological Information is an essential resource for bibliographers, librarians, and scholars interested in the literature of religion and theology. Both international and pluralistic in scope, this peer-reviewed journal encourages the publication of research and scholarship in the field of library and information studies as it relates to religious studies and related fields, including philosophy, ethnic studies, anthropology, sociology, and historical approaches to religion. By "information" we refer to both print and electronic, and both published and unpublished information.