Falvey now subscribes to Index Religiosus (IR), the new online international reference bibliography from KU Leuven, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, and Brepols Publishers that indexes a vast array of academic publications in the areas of theology, religious studies, Bible, liturgy, archaeology, canon law, and Church history.

It includes publications, written in various European languages, on subjects ranging from ancient thought and society to contemporary systemic theology, ethics and culture. It has a wide geographic and ecumenical range, and incorporates the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique (RHE) and the Elenchus Bibliographicus (EB), which are no longer published as separate bibliographies in print. IR gives the researcher the ability to limit a search to either of these two previously mentioned bibliographies, as well as making available to a user combined simple and advanced searching. It even features an email alert system for staying informed of new content.

A welcome newcomer to the databases offered by the Library, Index Religiosus already contains more than a half a million citations, and the number of fully searchable bibliographic records continues to grow. The content of more than one thousand scholarly journals is systematically checked so that references can be regularly added to IR. It covers the following publications, just to name a few:

Acta Apostolicae Sedis
Analecta augustiniana
Ancient Philosophy
Augustinian Studies
Augustiniana
Augustinianum
Augustinus
Biblical Archaeology Review
Biblical Theology Bulletin
Bibliotheca sacra
Bioethics
Bulletin for Biblical Research
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Diakonia
Ecclesia Orans
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Estudio Agustiniano
Foi et vie
Geist und Leben
International Journal of Systematic Theology
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Journal of Eastern Christian Studies
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Kerygma und Dogma
Logos
Near Eastern Archaeology
Recherches Augustiniennes et Patristiques
Revista Agustiniana
Revue d’éthique et de théologie morale
Revue d’Études Augustiniennes et Patristiques
Studia Theologica
Studia liturgica
Studia Missionalia
Studia Moralia
Theological Studies
Theologie und Glaube
Theologie und Philosophie
Theologische Literaturzeitung
Theology and Science
Theology Digest
Theology Today
Una sancta
Vigiliae christianae and
Voices from the Third World.

One can search the active list of periodicals in the database by clicking the coverage tab, once in the user interface for Index Religiosus.

Falvey’s access to IR strengthens a user’s ability to do library research and is, therefore, listed under core databases on the theology and religious studies subject guide. Other online resources from Brepols Publishers that Falvey subscribes to include a multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500), The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), and the Vetus Latina database of the digitized catalog of comprehensive patristic records related to the Old Latin translation of the Bible from the Vetus Latina Institute.

Article by Darren Poley, the theology subject specialist, scholarly outreach librarian, and curator for the Augustinian Historical Institute.