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ATLAS Full Text Plus (Full Text)
A collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included. Information dates as far back as 1949, and coverage continues through the present.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

InfoTrac (Full Text)
Articles on current events, humanities, social sciences, business, and health. Citations, abstracts and some full-text. From 1994 - 1999 with some back files to 1980.

America: History and Life
Comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Covers 1964 to the present.

GalleryWatch CRS Reports (Full Text)
Includes abstracts and the PDF full text for more than 25,000 CRS Reports and is updated daily, Content spans from 1993 to the present and covers a range of subject areas including economics, the environment, foreign affairs, immigration, medicine, civil rights, national security, terrorism, and more. Current and archived versions of each report are included, providing comprehensive coverage of edits and amendments.

Historical Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to historical literature (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

JSTOR (Full Text)
A collection of full-text articles from over 150 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to the last 4 or 5 years.

Literature Resource Center (Full Text) Collegiate Discus
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

MLA International Bibliography Collegiate Discus
The Modern Language Association's comprehensive index of scholarly journals and series in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1926 to the present.

National Newspapers(Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times (1980 to present), Washington Post (1987 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present) and Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present).

NetLibrary(Full Text)
Over 14,500 electronic books for searching and reading. A web browser plug-in is sometimes required to read NetLibrary books. Click here to download the NetLibrary web browser plug-ins.

Sociological Abstracts
An index to over 1,700 journals covering the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal articles and U.S. and foreign government documents). International coverage of information about political, economic and social issues and events in specific countries. Covers 1972 to the present.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Project Muse (Full Text)
Project Muse provides electronic access to the full text of over 40 scholarly journals in the humanities, and social sciences. Most coverage starts in 1994.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

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Print and Electronic Resources

American Jewish Desk Reference
REF E 184.35 .A44 1999

American Jewish Yearbook
REF E184 J5 A6 2006

Contemporary American Religion
REF BL2525 C65 2000

Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend
REF BM 50 U58 1991

Encyclopedia of American Religions
REF BL2525 M449 7th edition

Encyclopedia of Buddhism
REF BQ128 E62 2004

Encyclopedia of Hasidism
REF BM 198 E53 1996

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
REF D804.3 E53 1990

Encyclopedia Judaica
REF DS102.8 E496

Encyclopedia of Judaism
REF BM 50 K37 2006

Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer
REF BM 660 N85 1993

Encyclopedia of Religion
REF BL31 E46 2005

The Jewish Religion
REF BM 50 .J28 1995

Jewish Women in America
REF DS115.2 J49 1998

Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
REF BM 50 .O94 1997

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Internet Resources

Academic Guide to Jewish History

Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory

Association for Jewish Studies

The American Jewish Historical Society
The American Jewish Historical Society strives to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through their online collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history.

Art Judaica
Art Judaica is a comprehensive, searchable virtual art gallery. Art is arranged alphabetically and by type.

Forward
Forward is an award-winning Jewish-American paper published in New York Citydevoted to Israeli and Jewish-American interests of all philosophical persuasions. Contributors have included Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Hillel is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world with foundations and affiliates in the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia, Europe and South America.

Index to Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI)

Jewish Encyclopedia.com
This Web site contains the complete contents of the massive 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, originally published between 1901-1906 by the Funk & Wagnall's Company.

Jewish Virtual Library
Formerly JSOURCE, a division of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.

Jewishnet: Global Jewish Information Network

Judaism and Jewish Resources
Andrew Tannenbaum has put together a page full of Jewish Resources and links.

New York Public Library Dorot Jewish Division

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This is the web site for the Holocaust Museum in Washinton, D.C. Exhibition links include The Nuremberg Code and Human Rights, Voyage of the St. Louis, and Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Primary documents are shown.

Virtual Jerusalem

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