Library Resources for Jewish Studies
The CAT | Finding & requesting materials | Online Reference Sources |
Selected Reference Works |
Journal Articles
The CAT: Penn State 's online library catalog
Find books and other materials at Penn State by searching in the CAT (the online catalog). Begin your search by choosing the BROWSE page to search by title, or the KEYWORD page to search for books on your topic. For more info on searching the CAT, click here .
Finding and requesting materials from other libraries
- Virtual Electronic Library (VEL) : The combined catalog of the CIC libraries
- WorldCat : Holdings of over 65,000 libraries worldwide
- EZ Borrow (PALCI) : combined catalogs of Pennsylvania academic and research libraries
- ILLiad: University Libraries' online Interlibrary Loan system at https://ill.libraries.psu.edu/
Online reference sources
- Contemporary American Religion 2v, 1999
- Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed., 22v, 2007 Online via Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Encyclopedia of American Religions 7th ed., 2003
- Encyclopedia of Buddhism 2v
- Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed., 15v, 2005 Online via Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices 3v, 2006
Selected reference works in the Arts and Humanities Library (click the title for copies in other locations)
- American Jewish desk reference. Ref E184.35.A44 1999
- Encyclopaedia of Judaism. Ref BM50.E63 2000 (3 vols.)
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Ready Ref D804.25.E53 2000
- Every person's guide to Jewish philosophy and philosophers. Ref B154.I73 1999
- Jewish women in America : an historical encyclopedia. Ref DS115.2.J49 1998 (2 vols.)
- Jewish-American history and culture: an encyclopedia. Ref E184.J5J48 1992
- Judaism and human rights in contemporary thought: a bibliographical survey. Ref BM645.H85B74 1993
- The Modern Jewish experience: a reader's guide. Ref DS115.95.M63 1993
- Oral history of contemporary Jewry: an annotated catalogue. Ref DS125.U55 1990
- Oxford handbook of Jewish studies. Ready Ref BM70.O95 2002
- Routledge dictionary of Judaism. Ready Ref BM50.N47 2004
Locating Journal Articles and Other Resources
- America: history and life
- American and Canadian history from the pre-Columbian period to the present
- Over two thousand journals worldwide, including state and local historical journals
- “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
- Ethnic newswatch
- Newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
- Over 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications.
- Searchable in both English and Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching.
- An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.
- Historical abstracts
- World history from 1450 CE to present, except for the United States and Canada (see America : history and life )
- Over two thousand journals worldwide as well as dissertations, and books;
- “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
- JSTOR
- Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in classical literature and archaeology
- Some content back to the nineteenth century
- Content excludes the most recent three to five years
- ProQuest Direct
- Electronic resource available via LIAS E-Resource List
- Over five thousand magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers
- Especially useful for current national and world news, contemporary topics, and popular culture
- “Get It” feature will retrieve full text online
- TOCS-IN : Tables of Content of Journals of Interest to Classicists
- Journals in classics, religious studies, and the ancient Near East
- Indexes about 160 journals and some collections of articles, such as Festschriften
- Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto )
- Free resource offered by CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Toronto )