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Anthropological Index Online
Based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at The British Museum going back to 1957, this index includes periodicals in all branches of anthropology from many academic institutions and publishers around the world.

ATLAS Religion Database
The American Theological Library Association's ATLAS database includes thousands of citations and full-text articles from a wide variety of theological and religious journals, including a comprehensive "scripture reference" index.

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Biblical Archaeology Society Online
Studies and reports illuminate the use of archaeological methods to assess the historicity of biblical texts, and all biblical references are linked to the scriptural texts.

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Compact Memory—Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika (in German)
Compact Memory offers searchable digitalized versions of dozens of German-Jewish journals and newspapers from the 18th through 20th centuries.

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Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
The Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive offers thousands of fully searchable tracks of Jewish music and humor, including cantorial, Yiddish, Ladino, Israeli and Hasidic performances and radio broadcasts. Hebrew College's extensive LP collection has also been digitized and included in the Archive. Click here for on-campus access to the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. (QuickTime music player must be installed.) .

Off-campus access is available: To access the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive from off campus, please send an email to djsa@hebrewcollege.edu to receive your user name, password and instructions. Be sure to include your name, email address and Student ID or Gann Library membership bar code in the body of the email. If you have questions or encounter difficulties, please contact Harvey Sukenic or the Library Circulation Desk at 617-559-8750 or library@hebrewcollege.edu.

DataJEM
DataJEM, the Database of Jewish Educational Materials, is a project of The Pedagogic Center of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Materials reviewed include books, films, computer software, games, websites, posters, maps and journals in English or Hebrew.

DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals includes many full-text, quality-controlled scholarly journals. The more than 600 journals included in the directory cover the areas of religion, philosophy, social sciences, gender studies, education, anthropology and more.

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ebrary
ebrary is a database containing over 20,000 titles in the Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Economics and other fields from over 150 leading academic publishers! ebrary is fully searchable and allows you to read full-text books from the convenience of any Internet-enabled computer. (ebrary reader software must first be downloaded and installed.) Download the Ebrary Patron User's Guide.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
While many of our e-journals are available individually, this database allows you to perform combined searches in more than three dozen e-journals to which the Gann Library subscribes:

AJS Review

American Jewish History

The Chronicle of Higher Education

East European Jewish Affairs

Educational Theory

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

Harvard Education Letter

Harvard Educational Review

Harvard Theological Review

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Israel Horizons

Israel Studies

Jewish History

Jewish Social Studies

Jewish Studies Quarterly

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Journal for the Study of Judaism

The Journal of Israeli History

Journal of Jewish Education

The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Palestine Studies

The Journal of Religion

Journal of Religious Ethics

Journal of Semitic Studies

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Library Journal

Modern Judaism—A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues

Patterns of Prejudice

Prooftexts

Religious Education

Review of Rabbinic Judaism

Revue des Études Juives

Shofar

Teachers College Record

The Jewish Quarterly Review

Vetus Testamentum

Encyclopædia Britannica Online
This resource includes the entire Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, 150 full-text periodicals offering current-events coverage, links to websites selected and reviewed by Britannica editors, and video clips.

Encyclopædia Judaica
The completely updated online version of the classic, authoritative Encyclopædia Judaica contains more than 21,000 articles as well as maps, tables, photos and over 30,000 new bibliographical listings.

ERIC
The ERIC database of articles, books and documents on a broad range of education-related issues is published by Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally funded national information system.

Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers—many with full text and images. Part of the InfoTrac group of databases.

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History E-Book Project
The History E-Book Project is a continually growing database of hundreds of full-text books of major importance to historical studies. With concentrations in American, European, Middle Eastern, and Comparative World history, this fully searchable collection is unique in that most of its titles are not available in electronic format anywhere else.

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Index to Jewish Periodicals
The Index to Jewish Periodicals is a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1988. The Index to Jewish Periodicals will link directly to the full-text journal when available. Choose the EBSCOhost Web link.

InfoTrac
InfoTrac is a collection of databases that can be searched globally or individually. It includes:

Academic OneFile (includes The New York Times full text from 1995 and is searchable as a separate file)

Business and Company Profiles

Expanded Academic ASAP

General Business File ASAP

Health Reference Center Academic

Professional Collection

Student Edition (for high-school students)

Student Resource Center—Junior

IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect is a comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications, primarily in the hard and soft sciences. IngentaConnect offers nearly 30,000 article citations and summaries. Articles are also available for purchase on a pay-per-view basis or may be requested free of charge via Interlibrary Loan.

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The Jerusalem Post Online
The Jerusalem Post contains all articles and editorial supplements from 1990 onward, with content updated every three months. Includes weekend magazine, "Time Out," "Festivals, "Books" and "Money" sections.

JewishEncyclopedia.com
The 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia was originally published between 1901–1906. This online version contains more than 15,000 unedited articles and illustrations from the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish history (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.).

Jiddischer Drucke (Yiddish Prints)
This "Yiddish Prints" Collection of the Frankfurt University Library contains about 800 Yiddish books of all kinds, some of which are extremely rare books or unique editions. The texts were printed in Hebrew letters in Western, Central and Eastern Europe between the middle of the 16th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection
Focused on the arts and humanities, JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 150 journals, which include important titles in Jewish studies, religion, philosophy and women's studies. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve searchable images of journals as they were originally designed. [Because it is an archival collection which often includes the first volume ever printed, there is a delay of 3-5 years between the current issue and the issue available in JSTOR.] Click here for the complete title list.


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Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC), a comprehensive full-text literary reference database from EBSCO, provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day, combining information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and literary journals. LRC contains full text plot summaries, synopses and overviews; articles/essays of literary criticism; author biographies and interviews; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and texts.

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Mechon Mamre: Online Resources for Learning Torah
This online database offers free access to the texts of Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim (in Hebrew, Aramaic, English and parallel Hebrew and English); Rambam's Mishneh Torah (in Hebrew); Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, and Talmud Bavli (in Hebrew). For Tanakh verses with links to relevant references in the Rabbinical literature (in Hebrew), go to Sifrut HaKodesh.

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Naxos Online Music Library (including the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
Naxos Online offers continual access to more than 80,000 musical tracks in classical, jazz, folk, blues and world music. We have online access to the entire Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, consisting of hundreds of cantorial, klezmer, Hasidic, Sephardic and Yiddish classics. Click here to access Naxos Online from campus at any time. To access the Milken Archive from Naxos Online, go to Categories, then Collections, then Milken Archive.

Off-campus access is available: To access Naxos Online from off campus, send an email to naxos@hebrewcollege.edu to receive your login username, password and instructions. Please be sure to include your full name, email address and Student ID or Gann Library membership bar code in the body of the email. If you have questions or encounter difficulties, please contact Harvey Sukenic or the Library Circulation Desk at 617-559-8750 or library@hebrewcollege.edu.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary enables you to search and view the full text of more than 6,700 eBooks. With any selected book, you can read through the content page by page or search within the full text for particular topics or keywords. Plus, if you set up your own free account, you can use additional features such as creating a list of titles for quick review or making notes in individual titles for future reference.

NewsDirectory.com
A directory of thousands of online English-language newspaper and magazine sites searchable by topic and geographic region. Jewish sites include links to Tikkun, Forward, Jewish Press, Hadassah and many others.

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OCLC FirstSearch
FirstSearch provides instant online access to WorldCat, the OCLC catalog of books, web resources and other material.

OnlineNewspapers.com
Check here for Israeli newspapers including Ha'Aretz, Jerusalem Post, Ye'diot Achronot, Ma'ariv and more. Find current information on Israeli politics, events, business and entertainment in English, Hebrew and Russian.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of English language sources, and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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Project Muse
Project Muse (Standard Collection) is a comprehensive online collection of hundreds of full-text humanities, arts and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers and university presses. Project Muse provides research libraries with widely held, peer-reviewed academic journals specifically designed to support liberal arts curriculums.

Proquest Newspapers
Full-text content of Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe (1980 to current) and the Boston Herald (1991 to current). Choose the News- Proquest Newspapers link under Database on the Proquest page.

ProQuest Religion
ProQuest covers more than 120 major journals in the field of theology, many since 1996. ProQuest Religion is a comprehensive source for religious news and commentary, and is completely searchable through a combined search across all journals. With most of its articles are in full text, ProQuest Religion is designed to meet the research needs of theological and general academic programs. Choose the Humanities- Proquest Religion link under Database on the Proquest page.
Publication List

The following list features publications of interest to Hebrew College students:

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism

The American Journal of Sociology

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism

The American Journal of Sociology

American Journal of Theology & Philosophy

Bible Review

Biblical Archaeology Review

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

Commentary

Commonweal

Conversations in Religion and Theology

Cross Current

History of Religions

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

International Journal of Practical Theology

Israel Studies

Jewish Social Studies

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Journal of Biblical Literature

Journal of Church and State

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

Journal of Islamic Studies

Journal of Media and Religion

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Pastoral Counseling

Journal of Psychology and Theology

Journal of Religion & Abuse

The Journal of Religion

Journal of Religious Ethics

Journal of Religious History

Journal of Religious Thought

Journal of Semitic Studies

Journal of Theological Studies

Journal of Women and Religion

Judaism

Literature & Theology

Modern Theology

Moment

Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und
        Religionsphilosophie

New Oxford Review

Old Testament Abstracts

Prooftexts

Religion and American Culture

Religion, State & Society

Religious Education

Religious Studies

Religious Studies and Theology

Sociology of Religion

Spiritual Life

Teaching Theology and Religion

Theological Studies

Theology Today

Tikkun

Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Zygon

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RAMBI
RAMBI—The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies—is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles—in English, Hebrew, Yiddish and European languages—mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library in Israel. To search, select Rambi Web.

Rav-Milim Dictionary
The Rav-Milim Dictionary website is a comprehensive Hebrew-English Dictionary. Simply type in a Hebrew word (using a screen keyboard), in any form, and an "array of linguistic information is displayed," including: all forms of the Hebrew word with English translations, all the synonyms and "a complete list of idioms and phrases emanating from each dictionary entry" (with English translations), a listing of rhyming words and a complete grammatical analysis ("part of speech, gender, tenses, conjugations, root, and more"). For a Hebrew translation, simply type in the English word.

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Serials Solutions Journal/Database Portal
Serials Solutions provides an easy link to full-text journals, citations and all of Hebrew College's databases.

Snunit
Israel's main learning and teaching resource for children, parents, educators and schools, provided by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in Hebrew), Snunit offers access to various databases and journals, portals and websites, lesson plans and teaching materials, teachers' and students' chat rooms. It includes a subject navigator and full-text searches.

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World Book Online
World Book Online offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles suited to the educational level of users through grade 12. It also offers an interactive atlas with maps linking directly to articles, 1,800 tables covering a wide array of facts, plus audio clips, animations and a Spanish-language encyclopedia.

WorldCat
WorldCat is a combined catalog of books, web resources and other material in libraries around the world.

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