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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed., 2007)
(Trexler Library Reference Collection 296.03 E56j)
Signed entries by invited contributors. Good for topic-finding and topic-narrowing.

Books (secondary and primary resources published in books)

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Search catalogs from libraries across the country and around the globe. Publication title level search only - no articles or chapters. Items owned by Trexler Library show a Muhlenberg College library icon. Request items not owned by Trexler Library directly through WorldCat using the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) button. Items generally take 4-14 days to arrive.

Google Books
Search for books indexed and scanned by the Google books project.

Periodical articles (mostly secondary material, with some references to primary documents)

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive from Stanford University of scholarly journals in all subject areas.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Recent archive of journals from a number of academic presses.

America History & Life
The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A subscription database. Standard index for European history. Some full text.
Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new window
***RECOMMENDED***
A subscription database. Standard index for scholarship on Jewish religion and culture. Some full text.
RAMBI (Index of Articles on Jewish Studies) This link opens in a new window
A selective index of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.

Search engines

Google
Google Scholar
May be used in conjunction with interlibrary loan. Access to full text is maximized by searching from the Muhlenberg network.

Preferred spelling of names

Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai
Zevi Hirsch Kalischer
Moses Hess
Perez Smolenskin
M.L. Lillienblum, Lilienblum
Leo Pinsker
Max Nordau
Ahad Ha'am
Nachman Syrkin
Ber Borochov
Aaron David Gordon, Aharon David Gordon, A.D. Gordon
Samuel Mohilewer, Mohliver, Mohilever
Yehiel Michael Pines, Mikhal
Abraham Isaac Kook
Jakob Klatzkin, Jacob
Vladimir Jabotinsky

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.

Or visit the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero. Directions for installing Zotero here.

For help with annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for definitions and format of an annotation.

Articles and books via interlibrary loan

Articles and books not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.

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