Focus on Asia: Atla Continuing Content Expansion
/February 22, 2021
Diversification is a key component of Atla’s ongoing strategic work across all of its digital research tools. Expanding in geographic coverage, content areas, and languages are three prongs of this strategic work. The realm of Asian languages, religions, and academic studies is no exception. The Atla team is committed to adding titles that cover all faith traditions and philosophical and theological perspectives throughout Asia, with special attention given to non-Christian Asian religious traditions and faith/spiritual practices, such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Overall, Atla is working to include as many interdisciplinary, unique, and specialized sources from Asia as possible.
Our team is working to expand upon current coverage areas by listening and learning from scholars, publishers, and other information providers. By having these conversations with those in the field, Atla hopes to gain more insight into the scholarship being done on religion and theology both across Asia, as well as specifically on Asian religions. One way that Atla hopes to do this in 2021 is by attending the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Virtual Annual Conference. Learn more about Atla’s participation here.
Currently, Atla has more than 220 titles relevant to Asian content across its digital research tools, with nearly half available via open access linking and over 75% being peer-reviewed.
Download a PDF of the full list of titles relevant to Asian content included across all Atla digital tools.
Content from seventeen countries is included across our indexed and full-text materials: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey.
In twenty-four languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malay, Nepali, Pali, Persian, Polish, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu
Atla has an in-house team of ten metadata editors and analysts comprised of scholars in the fields of religion, theology, anthropology, and philosophy who read and analyze these materials. These Atla scholars also have capabilities in more than forty languages.
Here is a spotlight list of newly indexed and full-text titles currently in Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®), AtlaSerials® (Atlas®), and AtlaSerials PLUS® (Atlas PLUS®):
Spotlight of Titles Now Available in our Index
Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute
- Publishing Partner: Japanese Biblical Institute
- Country of Origin: Japan
- Language of Publication: English, French, German
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Asian American Theological Forum
- Publishing Partner: Asian American Theological Forum
- Country of Origin: United States
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
교회사학 (Research journal of Catholic Church History)
- Publishing Partner: 천주교 수원교구 유지재단 소속 수원교회사연구소
- Country of Origin: Korea
- Language of Publication: Korean
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
한국교회사학회지 (Journal of Church History Society in Korea)
- Publishing Partner: The Church History Society In Korea
- Country of Origin: Korea
- Language of Publication: Korean, English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Global journal al-thaqafah
- Publishing Partner: Pusat Kembangan Kolej Universiti Islam Sultan Azlan Shah
- Country of Origin: Malaysia
- Language of Publication: English, Malay, Arabic
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Jain Journal
- Publishing Partner: Jain Bhawan
- Country of Origin: India
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Journal of Sikh Studies
- Publishing Partner: Guru Nanak Dev University
- Country of Origin: India
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions
- Publishing Partner: Doshisha University
- Country of Origin: Japan
- Language of Publication:
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
臺大佛學研究 (Taiwan Journal of Buddhist Studies)
- Publishing Partner: 國立臺灣大學文學院佛學研究中心 [National Taiwan University Press]
- Country of Origin: Taiwan
- Language of Publication: Chinese
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Journal of East-West Thought
- Publishing Partner: International Association for East-West Studies
- Country of Origin: United States
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database
Spotlight of Titles Now Available in Full-text
Journal of Sufi Studies
- Publishing Partner: Brill
- Country of Origin: Netherlands
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database, AtlaSerials
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture
- Publishing Partner: Sungkyunkwan University
- Country of Origin: Korea
- Language of Publication: English, Korean, Chinese
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database, AtlaSerials, and AtlaSerials PLUS
Journal of Religion in Japan
- Publishing Partner: Brill
- Country of Origin: Netherlands
- Language of Publication: English
- Atla Tool: Atla Religion Database, AtlaSerials, and AtlaSerials PLUS
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