HUC-JIR Libraries

Internet Links - Search Engines/Directories/Indexes

While the Library staff thinks that these sites may be useful to our patrons, they are not under our control and we are not responsible for their content.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
Google
Yahoo
Alta Vista
MSN Home page
DMOZ open directory project

Periodical Indexes

RAMBI (The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies / by the Jewish National and University Library) {open access} Hints for searching RAMBI.

FindArticles.com
FindArticles.com is an archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles from about 900 magazines and journals. {open access}

Google Scholar
The is a new product by Google labs. They say: "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research" with the warning that it's not "quite ready for prime time." There are some links to full texts and many citations. {open access}

Index to Hebrew Periodicals (IHP) Database / by the University of Haifa Library (explanatory lead_in screen)
Go Directly to IHP Search Page {"in house" use only}

Other Searching Tools

Finding Images on the Web
A tutorial on the legal use of copyrighted images, image searching, downloading, and use. Includes a great collection of links to art, science, map, advertisement, photograph, and other image collections and image search engines. Created by art and art history bibliographer Ruth S. Thomas at the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston University.
http://www.bu.edu/library/training/webimages.htm
Subjects: Internet searching... Created by: rv
Copyright 2002 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org.

The Jewish History Resource Center
The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History offers a site with over 6,000 staff evaluated links in 30 categories. Users may search by time periods, topics, resources (maps, documents, etc.), or organizations. Tools include indexes in English, Spanish, and Hebrew. The site receives daily updates.
Subjects: Jews -- History... Created by: bb
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/
Copyright 2002 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org.

www.koogle.net
As it says on their web site, "Koogle is a parody created by Alon Landau Web Development and is in no way affiliated with the fine folks at Google. Nevertheless, Koogle is a real & effective Index/search engine targeted for the Jewish & Israeli community on the web."
http://www.koogle.net