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Judaic Studies Library Research Guide

Star Best Bet Databases in Cultural & Area Studies > Middle Eastern & Judaic Studies

Index Islamicus Star

Comprehensively covers periodicals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, 1906-present.
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Index to Jewish Periodicals Star

Citations to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, 1988 to present.
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Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Star

An index to articles and other scholarly literature on the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa, 1900-present.
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Additional Databases in Cultural & Area Studies > Middle Eastern & Judaic Studies

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Visual History Archive

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Encyclopaedia of Islam
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Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books and dissertations on world history from 1450 to present, 1954-present.
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International Political Science Abstracts
Citations to articles from international political science periodicals, 1951-present.

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IPSA

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JSTOR
Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.
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Middle East Newsstand
More than 30 current, full text newspaper French- and English-language newspapers from the Arab world, Israel, and the subcontinent.
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Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive
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Fifty thousand video testimonies in 32 languages, from 56 countries, on the Holocaust. Public access version (requires registration, contains indexing and limited videos only).

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Visual History Archive

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