Jewish Studies Proprietary Databases

• ***** Central Search (Googlize ebooks & ejournals) - Search all or selected proprietary & some public domain ebooks & ebook & ejournal databases. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• ACLS Humanities E-Book Project - Was the History E-Book Project. Search & browse 1,500 ebooks on African, American, Asian, European, Jewish, Latin American, Middle Eastern, etc., history. Covers comparative history & the history of technology (computers, etc.). Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Bar Ilan Responsa 14 - Networked CD-ROM version. Search over 68,000 works from the Responsa Literature; the Bible, Talmud & principal commentaries; works about Jewish law & customs; major codes of Jewish law (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch with principal commentaries, etc.); midrashim, Zohar. Use the Bar Ilan University Responsa for the titles listed here. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) PCs.



• Bar Ilan University Responsa - Online version. Search over 68,000 works from Responsa Literature; the Bible, Talmud & principal commentaries; works about Jewish law & customs; major codes of Jewish law (Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch with principal commentaries, etc.); midrashim, Zohar. Use the Bar Ilan Responsa 14 to read the Encyclopedia Talmudit. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, LIJ.



• Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, The - Search citations for about 141,000 titles & over 15,000 author biographies. Covers over 90% of all books published in the Hebrew languages (3,800 Yiddish, 2,800 Ladino, etc.) from 1473 to 1960. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, France, Israel, Moscow, South), Law, LIJ.



• Dissertations & Theses @ Touro - Search over 440 School of Health Sciences & 150 Graduate School of Jewish Studies masters theses. All theses also listed in UMI's printed Masters Abstracts International, included in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Database, preserved on microfilm in the UMI vault & at the Midtown Library. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual theses. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. TO DOWNLOAD THESES, FOLLOW THE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS & DOWNLOAD THE ACROBAT READER IF NECESSARY.



• ebrary - Search & browse over 31,000 ebooks. Covers all areas of academic study. To get started, go through the ebrary Quick Start Training Program flash demo (covers the ebrary Reader & ebrary InfoTools) or read the ebrary Quick Start Guide. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN, LIJ. WHEN LOGGING IN THE 1ST TIME, DOWNLOAD EBRARY READER.



• Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1st ed. - Networked CD-ROM version. Has 20,000 articles by leading experts on the Jewish experience (religion, history, culture, law & thought, scholarship & arts) & famous Jews. Includes 26 volumes of the original text, a media gallery (pictures, audio, maps, videos, slide shows, tables & charts), timeline. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) PCs.



• Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. - Search 21,000 articles on Jewish life, culture, history, religion by Israeli, American, European subject specialists. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, Thmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Ereserves - Link to required electronic course material selected by professors & input by library staff after filing with the Copyright Clearance Center. Includes ebooks & ejournal articles; scanned book chapters & journal articles; Web sites, documents, databases, etc.; Course Reserves pages in the Books & Media (Library Catalog). Read "Information for New Users," then go to "Electronic Reserves & Reserve Pages" & search for material by course, department, instructor, document. There is a link to EReserves in Blackboard courses that require online course materials. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South), Thmed.



• History Reference Online Elite - Search 270 history reference ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South).



• Index to Hebrew Periodicals - Search over 600,000 bibliographic references. Includes the Index to Hebrew Periodicals back to 1977; Eretz Israel Data Base of earlier & non-Hebrew materials; Tel-Hai Index to Israeli Newspapers, 1985-92, 1994-97 (selective); Bar-Ilan University Index to Newspaper Literary Supplements back to 1985 (selective). In Hebrew. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, France, Moscow).



• Index to Jewish Periodicals - Search citations of English-language articles, book reviews, feature stories in over 160 journals back to 1988. Covers Jewish history, activity, thought, contemporary Jewish & Middle East affairs. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, France), TUC.



• Jewish People's University of the Air (JPUA) - A series of audiotapes (27 radio courses totaling 341 half-hour lectures) created between 1979 & 1991 to introduce the public to topics in Jewish studies. History, religion, music, literature all surveyed by renowned professors in their fields. Converted to AIFF format by Touro College Libraries & made available as the 1st of Touro Digital Collections on March 16, 2007. Some lectures restricted to the Touro community.



• netLibrary - Search over 13,180 ebooks. Covers all areas of academic study. To get started, go through the Welcome to NetLibrary flash demo (covers econtent & eaudiobooks) or read the NetLibrary QuickStart Guide & NetLibrary Audiobooks QuickStart Guide. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. CHECKOUTS LAST FOUR HOURS.



• NoodleTools - Generate, edit, publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with rules of the current MLA Handbook & APA Publication Manual. For detail on using this program, read our Creating Your Bibliography with NoodleTools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION. FACULTY - Create a Class Name for your students so they can share their citation/reference lists with you for review & comment.



• OCLC FirstSearch - Search over 30 bibliographic, numeric, full-text specialty databases. Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, BasicBIOSIS, Biology Digest, Business and Management Practices, Clase and Periodica, Contemporary Women's Issues, Dissertation Abstracts Online, EconLit, GEOBASE, MDX Health Digest, Media Review Digest, PAIS International, ProceedingsFirst, SIRS Researcher, WorldCat, etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) library PCs.



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Otzar Ha-Hochma Electronic Library - Search 28,000 ebooks (the Bible, Mishna, Talmud , Jewish thought & philosophy [1,400 Chabad-related]). Includes subject indexes & an every-word index for 5,000 books that are not Talmud or Pentatuech. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, France).



• Oxford Reference Online (premier collection) - Search & browse over 100 ebooks in 24 categories. Covers the English language, history, literature, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, science, etc.). Includes bilingual dictionaries. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• ProQuest Central - Search articles in over 11,300 periodicals and in over 760 full-text newspapers. Encompasses ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax with Standards, Asian Business and Reference, Banking Information Source, Canadian Business & Current Affairs, Canadian Newstand, Career & Technical Education, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Full Text Dissertations (30,000), Hoover's Company Records, OxResearch, Pharmaceutical News Index, ProQuest Biology Journals, ProQuest Computing, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Military, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, ProQuest Telecommunications, Research Library, Snapshots (3,000 industry reports), and Social Science Research Network. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Research Library - Search articles in 2,000 journals back to 1971. Covers the arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, international, law, literature, military, multicultural, political science, psychology, sciences, social sciences, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Web Sites of Print Subscriptions - EBSCOhost EJS (Electronic Journals Service). Link to Web sites for over 150 of Touro College Libraries' print subscriptions, most with articles back several years. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).