Reference Tools

Selected Web Resources

Indexes to Online Reference Sources

General Reference Tools

Selected Online Judaica Gateways

Selected Judaica Reference Tools


Indexes to Online Reference Sources

InfoMine
Scholarly internet resource collection.

The Internet Public Library
Many basic reference tools, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias.

iTools
Access to many internet resources, including encyclopedias, biographies and newspapers.

Librarians' Internet Index
A well-organized collection of quality online resources, covering a wide range of topics. Check under "Reference" for dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, etc.

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General Reference Tools

Acronym Finder
More than 156,000 acronym listings and their meanings.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Fully searchable, with audio pronunciations.

APA Citation Guide

Chicago Manual of Style
Visitors may register for free and gain access to the latest edition of this literary tool, including examples of Chicago-style documentation, such as the humanities style and the author-date system.

Columbia Encyclopedia, 200l edition
Contains nearly 51,000 entries on a comprehensive range of topics with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.

Columbia World of Quotations, 1996 edition
65,000 well-known quotations by 5,000 authors.

Confusing Words
A tool that sorts out words whose meanings are easily confused.

The Elements of Style
Classic (1918) aid for basic writing, by William Strunk.

Internet Citation Guides
Guide to citing electronic resources.

Journalism Resources: Guide to Citation Style Guides
University of Iowa guide to citation styles.

Roget's Thesaurus
An on-line version of the standard reference book.

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Selected Online Judaica Gateways

Association of Jewish Libraries
Provides many links to internet resources useful to Judaica scholarship.

eJewish.info
An initiative of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel to offer access to a variety of Jewish-oriented web directories, indexes and archives.

The Jewish Virtual Library
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) index of internet sites in history, biography, US-Israel cooperation, maps, reference tools, and more.

Judaism and Jewish Resources
An index to Jewish sites compiled by Andrew Tannenbaum.

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Selected Judaica Reference Tools

Academic Guide to Jewish History
Print, internet and scholarly resources on Jewish History.

The Ariga Glossary of Yiddish Expressions
An indexed-by-first-letter listing of familiar and not-so-familiar Yiddish words and expressions, with their English translations.

Interactive Jewish Calendar Tools
Includes Hebrew date converter and Shabbat candle-lighting times.

JewishEncyclopedia.com
The 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia was originally published between 1901 and 1906. This online version contains more than 15,000 unedited articles and illustrations from the original encyclopedia. Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish history (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.).

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
Created to assist those researching their Jewish ancestry.

The Jewish History Resource Center
Over 3,000 links to websites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish History.

Jewish Women's Archive
Supports and conducts rigorous scholarship on the history of American Jewish women.

Judaic Web Institute for Teachers
A compilation of Judaic resources on Jewish heritage, holidays, texts, Torah/Talmud study and more.

MyJewishLearning.com
Transdenominational website of Jewish information and education geared toward learners of all ages and educational backgrounds.

Nextbook
Gateway to Jewish literature, culture and ideas.

Rav-Milim Dictionary
A comprehensive Hebrew-English Dictionary. Type in a Hebrew word in any form for all forms of the Hebrew word, synonyms, English translations, and a list of idioms and phrases emanating from each dictionary entry (with English translations), a listing of rhyming words, and a complete grammatical analysis ("part of speech, gender, tenses, conjugations, root, and more"). Type in an English word for a Hebrew translation.

The Shamash Jewish Network
Central point of Jewish information and discussion on the Internet (project of Hebrew College Online).

Virtually Jewish: An Internet Tutorial from a Jewish Perspective
An introduction to the internet with a Jewish emphasis

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