Site Guide
Authorized Users
Religionsource is primarily intended for journalists. By request, journalism
professors and journalism students can also be authorized. Scholars whose
contact information is included in the Religionsource database are
automatically sent authorization.
If you are a journalist employed at a bona fide news outlet, you can use the
database by signing in with your name, news outlet, your email address at the
news outlet, and primary beat. Subsequent sign-ins require only the email
address.
Email us with the following. We
can usually email authorization within one
business day.
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your name and phone number
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the name of the news outlet you are on assignment for, or names of the outlets
with which you will try to place your story
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citations for at least two other articles you've had published
If you are a journalism professor teaching a course that includes writing on
religion topics and you would like to authorize your class to use this
database, email us with the
following, and we'll email authorizations to your students within a week. We
require this process in order to deter general students or members of the
public from bothering scholars with queries that are more appropriately
answered by visiting a library. (If you yourself want to use the database,
simply send us an email including
your faculty position and the name of your institution.)
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your name, position, email address, and phone number
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the name of the course and of your institution
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a list of the names and email addresses for the students in your class
If you are a college student pursuing a journalism degree or writing for your
school's news outlet and want to use this database for those purposes, send
your journalism professor or outlet's faculty adviser an email including your
email address, phone number, and school, and the name of the course or news
outlet, asking the professor to add his or her name and faculty position and to
forward the email to source@religionsource.org.
Once we receive the email, we can normally send you authorization within two
business days. Student authorizations are valid for six months,
renewable using the same procedure.
We automatically send authorization to scholars whose contact information is
listed in the database. Given the need to conserve network-server resources
so that journalists can get quick responses to searches, other scholars are
normally not authorized to use the database. Designed to work well for journalists—whose
ways of searching differ substantially from that of scholars—this database
may not serve scholars' needs as well as library databases, which are designed
with scholars in mind. Click
Who's Included in the database to learn about the criteria for being listed.
If you have questions about being listed, please
contact us.
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