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The navigation on the top of the homepage provides a variety of options to access content on the site, including Explore By and Browse Content functions.

The basic search bar appears below the main navigation for quick and easy searching across the site.

Below the search bar is an image carousel with a link to browse the featured content, followed by a short description about Theology & Religion Online below. Below this section are buttons for the T&T Clark Theology Library, T&T Clark Jesus Library, Library of Catholic Thought, Bloomsbury Religion in North America Collections, Eerdmans Bible Commentaries and Digital Reference Library, and T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. These buttons lead to a dedicated landing page for each collection, with links to each of the key content sets, product highlights, and a series of subject categories through which to browse and filter the collection.

Keep scrolling to access and learn more about other current featured topics on Theology & Religion Online.

At the bottom of the page, one can find a banner promoting forthcoming collections.

Search

To search, type your search term in the Search bar at the top of each page. Clicking the magnifying glass button or pressing return will take you to the results page.

The search page will list results in most relevant order and can be reordered by title or date, ascending or descending. The standard results page shows 10 results and can be adjusted to 5 or 20 results. The search results will show the chapter, author, and reference or eBook title, with a preview snippet of text that includes the search term with the search term appearing in bold.

Search results can be refined using the left-hand column by Content Type, Field, and Year

Navigate to the desired results by clicking on the chapter title at the top of each result.

Advanced Search

To the right of the search bar, click on the Advanced Search button.

Enter your search term in the search bar with the option to refine by Title, Author/Editor/Creator, Summary/Abstract, Category, or Identifier. Enter additional search terms using “Add Field” with search functions of “AND,” “OR,” and “NOT” and the same options listed above.

Further refine results by Date range by year and Content Type, from Book Chapter and Articles.

Use the same search results functions on the search page to refine results further and access results.

Books pages

Navigate to a specific eBook from Browse Content. Book pages show the title of the book, author, copyright information, DOI, ISBN, edition, place of publication, and date published online in the left-hand column and the cover and a link to purchase the book in the right-hand column.

The copyright information is followed by a search bar for searching within the book, followed by the table of contents with links to jump to specific sections and chapters of the book. Pagination in the table of contents matches the print edition of books.

Chapter pages

The left-hand column of the chapter page displays the book cover, author, copyright year and imprint, and the search within this book function, followed by Subject information and extensive Related Content (link to related content on this page here) links.

The main right-hand column shows the chapter title, DOI and page range of the chapter, followed by a linked table of contents for easy movement to other chapters within the book, following by the full text of the chapter. Hovering over the chapter text will show the corresponding page numbers at the appropriate breaks to match print editions of books.

Search within books

Searching within the “Search book” function from the book or chapter page will bring up all references to the search term within each chapter of the book.

Explore

The Explore By section of each collection landing page provides options to access the content by Religion, People, Sources, Doctrines, or Topic.

Clicking on any option leads to an alphabetical list for browsing. The numbers in brackets next to each term show the amount of content aggregated under each term. Clicking on any term will lead to a results page for all the content on the site that has been tagged with the term.

The results page offers further filter options in the left-hand column.

Browse

The Browse Contents tab on the top navigation bar offers options to browse all of the content types included across all collections, including eBooks, Articles, Reference, Images and the Theology and Religion Online Timeline.

Each link brings up a page listing all of the items from that content type on the platform in alphabetical order by title, showing the cover, title, and author.

The title list pages are subscription sensitive; by default, you will only see the content from collections to which your institution has access, unless you uncheck the box marked 'Only Show Me Content I Have Access To', in which case items to which you do not have access will be marked with a padlock.

Related Content

On each content page, including book chapters, the left-hand column of the page will show Subject information, including Content Type, and Topic. All content on the site is tagged using these terms and clicking on any of the listed links will lead to all content tagged with that term.

Under the Subject section, a Related Content section will appear.

Personal account, Saving, and Folders

Create a personal account using the sign-up function to save content and searches in folders. Create an account by clicking “Log in” In the top right-hand corner of the site above “Librarians.” At the bottom of the pop-up window, click “Sign up now.”

After signing up or logging in to your personal account, you can save search and content to folders. To save a search, click the “Save this Search” button from any search results page, which appears on the right side of the page above the search results and below the static search bar.

To save content, locate the “Save” icon in the top right-hand corner of any page of the content (directly under “Advanced Search”) that you wish to save. Clicking on ‘Save’ will enable you to save the URL of the relevant page into a folder. You can create multiple folders and save different content into each.

Access folders from “My Content” under the welcome message in the top right corner of the site.

Cite

APA, MLA, and Chicago citations are available for all content on the platform. Click the “Citation” button next to the Save and Print links. This will bring up a pop-up window with citation information that you can copy to clipboard or export as a RIS file.

Social Sharing

Clicking the “Share” button on any content page will bring up a form with options to share content via email, Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, with options to personalize the message before posting or emailing.

Librarians

Access the Librarians section of Theology & Religion Online using the “Librarians” navigation in the top navigation bar. The Librarian section provides useful information on the Benefits for Subscribing Institutions, MARC Records, Promotional Materials for the platform, as well as Help and Contact Us information.