Key Online Tools and Reference Sources
These tools will be useful for all your research in Harvard Libraries. All but one are in English:
Chicago Manual of Style: the fully searchable online version of the 15th edition of this standard style manual.
Citation Linker: an online form for finding e-journal articles; using pieces of a bibliographic citation, this automatically links you to either the electronic full text of a journal article or to the HOLLIS record showing which Harvard libraries own it.
Citation Tools at Harvard: a page linking you to reference management software packages and how to use them at Harvard.
Cross Search: lets you search more than one database at a time in a variety of subject areas.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 28; Twentieth-century American-Jewish fiction writers (1984), a printed volume in the Widener Loker Reading Room: Widener RR3129.5 vol.28
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 299; Holocaust Novelists (2004), a printed volume in the Widener Loker Reading Room: Widener RR 3129.5 vol. 299
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 333; Writers in Yiddish (2007), a printed volume in the Widener Loker Reading Room: Widener RR 3129.5 vol. 333
Dissertations and Theses Full-Text: indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities. Provides full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990-present. Index covers 1861-present.
Encyclopaedia Judaica: the online version of the encyclopedia covering all aspects of Jewish history and culture in the Diaspora and in Israel.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: this 14-volume printed set, edited by Keith Brown (2006), is in the Widener Loker Reading Room: Widener RR 2993.20
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: a 10-volume printed set, edited by R.E. Asher (1994) is in the Widener Loker Reading Room: Widener RR 2993.20 F
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaica, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder (1974), is in Widener Library: WID-LC DS102.8 .E52 x
Handbook of Pragmatics: topical articles and brief biographies of scholars in the field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, and cultural) science of natural language use.
Harvard Libraries Portal: the web gateway to most of the electronic resources (journals, indexes, online databases) available through Harvard Libraries.
HOLLIS: the online catalog for most of the materials held by Harvard Libraries (books, journals, etc.).
Index Translationum: a list of books translated in the world (an international bibliography of translations, with bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history, etc.
Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing Online: information collected on a large number of endangered languages in all parts of the world.
The Jewish Encyclopedia : a Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day / a printed set edited by Cyrus Adler. Funk and Wagnalls, c1925. Located in Widener Library: WID-LC DS102.8 .J65 1925
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: an alphabetically arranged survey of literary criticism and theory, with entries for individuals, critical topics, movements, theories, and contributions of specific countries and periods.
Lib-Web-Cats: a database that provides the URLs to web-based library catalogs worldwide.
Lib-X: a browser toolbar add-on that allows you to search the HOLLIS Catalog, E-Journal List, E- Resource List, Citation Linker, and Google Scholar quickly, with links to other search tools and library resources.
Maagarim - Historical dictionary of the Academy of the Hebrew Language: covers thousands of Hebrew works from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the 11th century, and is constantly expanded. It can search for all occurrences of a Hebrew root, work, form, or expression, in all or some subset of the corpus. The texts can be read online in full, according to the best manuscripts, along with variant versions and bibliography.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present, an 8-volume printed set, edited by Peter N. Stearns (2008) is in Widener Library: WID-LC D205 .O94 2008.
Oxford English Dictionary: the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material produced in the progress towards the Third Edition.
Transliteration Tables for non-Roman Scripts: the definitive transliteration guide for anyone who transliterates words, names, titles, or text from a non-Roman script into the Roman script.HCL Web Site: find here information on the libraries and collections in the College Library, as well as online forms and services, including:
Library Hours
Widener Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
How to get "On Order" or "Ordered-received" materials you find in HOLLIS
Consult Judaica Division Request Form
Getting Materials from HD (the Harvard Depository)
Making Library Purchase RecommendationsJewish Languages and Literatures: A Harvard Seminar in World Literature website, from The Lily Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, founded in 2008 to support the study of the languages of Jewish communities across the globe.
Finding Books in HOLLIS
The HOLLIS online catalog will be a rich resource for this course; it provides access to between 14 and 15 million items owned by Harvard Libraries.
Here are some hot-linked samples of Library of Congress Subject Heading searches; simply click a link and it will automatically do a search for you in HOLLIS on that subject. To find more LCSH for the subject you are researching, do a keyword search in HOLLIS, pull up the record for an interesting title, then click on the Subject links displayed at the end of the record (those Subject links are LCSH).
Try using the HOLLIS Expanded Search; it lets you limit searches by language, date, format, and library, and makes it easy to use multiple terms in your searching.
The guide, Searching the HOLLIS Online Catalog provides a more comprehensive introduction to working with HOLLIS.
Finding Journal Articles
For this course there are a host of journal indexes and databases for you to delve into the periodical literature supporting your research. This is a selection of files we think can be useful:
Academic Search Premier: offers information across the disciplines and includes full-text for many articles from 1990 to the present.
Anthropology Plus: a comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive: browse and search access to publications of the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS).
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online: an annotated bibliography of the field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, and cultural) science of natural language use.
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book: a database covering approximately 90% of all the books published in the Hebrew language over a period of 500 years (from 1473 to 1960). It also features a complete list of books in Ladino and thousands of books featuring text in Hebrew and Yiddish, as well as hundreds of books in lesser-known Jewish languages such as Judeo-Arabic and Bucharit.
Ethnic NewsWatch: an interdisciplinary full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Google Scholar: not just Google — this is an index to scholarly articles using Google's search system. Use this link and the system recognizes you as a Harvard searcher... so you get full-text for free, rather than having the system ask you to pay for it.
Historical Abstracts: articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
Index to Hebrew Periodicals: a bibliographic indexing project centered at the University of Haifa Library. It covers articles of Hebrew periodicals, collections, a few monographs, newspapers, and articles in other languages dealing with the land of Israel.
Index to Jewish Periodicals: an index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.
ISI Web of Knowledge: a multi-disciplinary database covering arts, humanities, science, social science, and technology articles from 1945 to the present.
JSTOR: searches and displays the full text of important scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
JSTOR Folklore: searches and displays the full text of 9 journals in JSTOR in folklore.
JSTOR Jewish Studies: searches and displays the full text of 4 journals in JSTOR specifically in Jewish studies.
JSTOR Language and Literature: searches and displays the full text of 103 journals in JSTOR specifically in language and literature.
Language and Linguistics Compass: a research tool that provides generalized articles on the area of Language and Linguistics, covering: Computational & Mathematical, Education & Pedagogy, Historical & Comparative, Phonetics & Phonology, Pragmatics & Semantics, Cognitive Science of Language, Sociolinguistics, Syntax & Morphology, and Typology.
Linguistic Bibliography Online: provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications on all branches of linguistics and all the languages of the world, irrespective of language or place of publication.
Linguistics Abstracts Online: provides abstracts from more than 400 leading linguistics journals in a variety of linguistics fields covering articles written from 1985 to the present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from over 1200 journals annually in all areas of language and linguistics.
Literature Compass: gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.
Literature Online (LION): a collection of several hundred thousand works of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary reference and critical resources.
Magill On Literature Plus: a large collection of literary resources including review essays, plot summaries, character descriptions, and short biographical sketches of fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and philosophers.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies: an index to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
MLA International Bibliography: indexes bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present.
Old Testament Abstracts: a database featuring indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
Periodicals Index Online: an index to the contents of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences, from the 18th century to the present.
Philosopher's Index (1940-): gives bibliographic information for journal articles and major articles from anthologies and books published since 1940. The articles covered in here are written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. Since systems of thought influential in East Asia, such as Buddhism or Confucianism, are sometimes treated as philosophy rather than as religion, you may find useful references here.
RAMBI, the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies: a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: a database that crosses the disciplines with articles from 1890 to 1982.
Sociological Abstracts (AKA Sociofile): a core resource for researchers, professionals, and students in sociology, social planning/policy, and related disciplines.
Questions?
If you need more information, please get in touch with one of us:
Cheryl LaGuardia, at claguard@fas.harvard.edu, is a Research Librarian in Widener Library.
Dr. Charles Berlin, at cberlin@fas.harvard.edu, is the Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, and Head of the Judaica Division in Widener Library.
To reach the Judaica Division in Widener Library, please e-mail: juddiv@fas.harvard.edu.