The Ostrow Library strives to provide support for student and patron research needs. This list of journal, website, and database resources, organized by subject, may help direct your investigation.
If you encounter a resource not included below but that you believe is beneficial to other researchers, please contact the library at library [at] aju.edu (library[at]aju[dot]edu) with recommendations. We will evaluate the resource for possible addition.
Off-campus AJU students and faculty/staff members can access subscription resources by selecting the below links and logging in with their AJU email and password.
SEARCHABLE ARTICLE & EBOOK DATABASES
Directory of Open Access Journals
EBSCOhost Articles & eBooks
Gale eBooks
JSTOR
OCLC FirstSearch
ProQuest Databases
ProQuest Ebook Central
SAGE Journals (select access)
WorldCat Discovery (the AJU catalog, which pulls resources from the above databases)
EDUCATION & PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCES
American Psychological Association
Chronicle of Higher Education
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
** Education Resource Guide List of Education Journals
Educational Leadership Journal
Journal of Jewish Education
Lookstein for Jewish Educators
PsychOpen
JEWISH & RABBINICAL RESOURCES
Bar Ilan Responsa Project
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Hebrew Books
JTS Digital Collection, Jewish Theological Seminary
Lieberman Talmud Database
RAMBI Index of Jewish Studies
Rav-SIG Rabbinic Genealogy Bibliography
Sefaria Sacred Jewish Texts
RESEARCH & WRITING RESOURCES
** Avoiding Plagiarism, Excelsior OWL
Copyright, American Library Association
Library of Congress Classification Outline
Library of Congress Classification System
Library, Research, & Teaching Tools, Association of College & Research Libraries
*** Online Writing Lab, Excelsior OWL
** Online Writing Lab, Purdue OWL®
U.S. Copyright Office
WRITING STYLE GUIDES
APA, Purdue OWL®
Chicago, Purdue OWL®
MLA, Purdue OWL®
Turabian, University of Chicago Press
ARCHIVAL, LIBRARY, & MUSEUM RESOURCES
AJU Archive, Callimachus
Berman Archive
California State Board of Education Records, 1866-2004 (OAC)
Educational Resources, California Secretary of State
Educator Resources, National Archives
Free Library Resources, Hebrew College
Internet Archive
Jewish Virtual Library
Library of Congress
Library of Congress Digital Collections
National Archives
National Library of Israel
Online Archive of California (OAC)
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
Records of the Office of Education, National Archives
Skirball Cultural Center Museum
Western States Jewish History Archive, 1800-2004 (OAC)
The Yehuda Schwarzbaum Online Library
STATISTICAL RESOURCES
CIA World FactBook
Demographics, California Department of Finance
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
U.S. Geological Survey