Abstracts are included for 1975-1985. RIO subscribers receive a semiannual perfect-bound installment in November that includes indexing through the first half of that year. Each spring subscribers are sent a hardbound cumulation of the past year's listings in a handsome casebound volume. RIT annually indexes more than 8,000 essays in and related to the field of religion from more than 500 books, international in scope. It covers multi-author books that are primarily scholarly in nature, including Festschriften, conference proceedings, and congresses.
Bibliographic access is available by subject heading, author-editor name, and scripture citation.
This edition of RIT will be its final print version. RIT will be available online in 2001. Religion Index Two is also available on this web site. The Index to Book Reviews in Religion is moving to an all-electronic format for 2000, and will be available for institutional subscription on the ATLA Web Site. Multiple search fields will access nearly 400,000 book reviews from 1960-2000.