Online Research Databases

 E-Journal List – links to full-text of all journals available online through the Kaplan library.

EBSCO DATABASES:  Academic Search Elite – abstracting/indexing for over 3000 journals and full-text for over 2000 journals in many varied areas of scholarly pursuit  ATLA Religion Database – abstracting/indexing for edited books, book reviews, and journals in religion, with some links to full-text  Index to Jewish Periodicals – index to 160 English-language periodicals of Jewish interest since 1988. No abstracts, some links to full-text

FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES:  ArticleFirst – index to thousands of articles, scholarly and popular. Some links to full-text  ECO – abstracting/indexing for over 5000 journals, with some links to full-text  WorldCat – extensive database of book and journal holdings of libraries nationwide; no full-text  WorldCat Dissertations – subset of WorldCat, limited to dissertations & theses; no full-text

 Encyclopaedia Judaica – searchable full-text of the 2006, 2nd edition

 Encyclopedia of Religion – searchable full-text of the 2005 edition

 Online Responsa Project (Bar Ilan) – searchable Hebrew and Aramaic full-text of Bible, Talmud, Codes and Responsa

 Talmud Text Online Databank – searchable full-text of primary textual witnesses to tractates of the Babylonian Talmud including manuscripts, first printed editions and Cairo Geniza fragments

 Google Book Search – specialized database of books only; full-text for books out of copyright

 Google Scholar – specialized database for scholarly literature (articles, theses, books, etc.); Check the library’s E-Journal List and Catalogue for links to full-text.

 Hebrew Books.org – a collection of thousands of Hebrew religious books/seforim for free viewing, searching in the text, and downloading or printing  Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia – online, interactive version of the 2006 CD-ROM version, edited by Professors Paula Hyman of Yale University & Dalia Ofer of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

 JTA Jewish News Archives – JTA Global News Service of the Jewish People’s digital archive of some 250,000 articles covering Jewish news around the world, 1923 to the present

 National Library of Israel Digitized Book Repository – online collection of Talmudic manuscripts, Tanakhs, mahzorim, haggadot and more

 Rambi – index to articles in journals and edited books in English, Hebrew, and other languages on all aspects of Jewish Studies, from the Hebrew University. Enter search terms in English or Hebrew. No full-text.

Access all of these databases from all computers at RRC without a password in the following ways:  From the library online catalogue (http://rrc.ipac.dynixasp.com/), click on the Databases tab on the main search screen.

 From the RRC courses opening screen (http://courses.rrc.edu), click on Library Online Research Databases.

Access all of these databases from your home computer with a password in the following ways:  From the library online catalogue screen, (http://rrc.ipac.dynixasp.com/ or link from the RRC website, http://www.rrc.edu/) click on the Databases tab on the main search screen. After choosing a database you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from your RRC ID card. This barcode number will give you access to all of the databases.

 From the RRC courses opening screen (http://courses.rrc.edu), click on Library Online Research Databases. After choosing a database you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from your RRC ID card. This barcode number will give you access to all of the databases.

Troubleshooting Tips

If typing in your RRC ID card barcode number does not give you direct access to these databases from home, try one or more of these steps:

1) Double-check with the library that the barcode on your ID card matches the number we have recorded for you at the library. 2) Do you have a firewall installed on your computer? It must be set to allow cookies, java script, and exe files. 3) If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser, try another browser. One that is free, easy to download, and known to work is Firefox, from Mozilla. Download it at: http://www.mozilla.com/

8/2011