A valuable and overlooked pre-pub: Religious and Theological Abstracts

For $49.95 you get abstracts (summaries) of all the articles in all the available issues of 738 theological journals! (See the list of them all on the product description page -- link below.)

What an awesome research tool. And what a bargain!

http://www.logos.com/product/8652/religious-and-theological-abstracts

All content available in the rtabstracts.org database will be available and easily searchable through Logos. Normally you need a subscription to access that content, and it costs $45 per year. Now you'll be able to permanently own all the content currently in that database for a one-time cost of just slightly over that. No word yet on how future updates will be handled. But this is a buy-once product, not a subscription. So it seems like an awesome thing to grab now while you can, as who knows what will happen in the future.

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Simon’s Brother

Now all we need is to get all those journals in Logos...maybe one day....I can see this would be valuable though for working with the Journals that are currently in Logos as I see some names there that are in my library....so you've got me to sign up...

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358662#Comment_358662

this would be valuable...for working with the Journals that are currently in Logos

Even for journals not currently in Logos it would be useful. Say you're researching some very specific topic and you search in RTA and find that there are three articles in different journals that seem to be exactly about the topic you're writing on. You can read the summaries of the articles and find out if they would contribute to your thesis. If you're in seminary and they have a decent library, they might have those issues in the stacks, but if not, they could probably get photocopies of them for you from some other library in the Inter-Library Loan system. In fact, probably any public library could get photocopies (or scans) of them for you from another library. Yeah, it's not as nice as sitting at home and doing all your research within Logos. But if you come across reference in one of your Logos resources to an article that looks intriguing but isn't available in Logos, you can at least read a summary of it. That's better than nothing!

fgh

This is one prepub I really wish would move faster!

Logos: could you please write a blog on it? [^][G][W]

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358662#Comment_358662

I can see this would be valuable though for working with the Journals that are currently in Logos

Those journals will already turn up in searches. It's for locating articles in journals we don't have that it'll be invaluable.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358797#Comment_358797

Those journals will already turn up in searches. It's for locating articles in journals we don't have that it'll be invaluable.

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Scott S

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358665#Comment_358665

Rosie,

Do you know how helpful the abstracts are themselves? Do they contain the conclusions of the articles? (I looked for example abstracts at the RTA site, Logos product page, and at Amazon, but didn't see any.)

In fact, probably any public library could get photocopies (or scans) of them for you from another library.

I didn't realize the library sharing system included religious journals, thanks for mentioning it.

Scott

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358834#Comment_358834

I looked for example abstracts at the RTA site (...) but didn't see any.

You can search the site without subscription (click Search R&TA on the left); you just won't be able to see more than the first 5 results (unless you find ways to work around that restriction (which is possible, but takes time)). You'll get something like this:

The quality of the abstract will depend entirely on who's written it, but here's one:

Rev Chris

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/358926#Comment_358926

It would be nice if they included Scripture tags. Anyone know how this compares to Ebscohost?