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Subject Research Guides : find information on these topics
Holidays
Hanukkah
High Holidays
Passover
Purim
Rosh Hodesh (New Moon)
Shavuot
Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Simhat Torah
Tisha b'Av
Tu-Bi-Shevat

Texts/Literature
Bible
Early American Reform Liturgy
Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation (Jerusalem)
Practical Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish Thought(Cincinnati)
Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah, Talmud, etc.

Special topics
American Jewish History
Ancient Near East and Cuneiform studies
Art
Blessing of the Sun
Comparison chart of Selected CD-ROMs of Sacred Texts (Los Angeles)
Digital Resources
Genealogy
Holocaust
HUC-LA history
Israel
Jews of Los Angeles
LGBT resources
Music
Reform Judaism
Theses (Cincinnati campus)
Theses (Los Angeles campus)
Writing tools

Periodical Indexes and other search tools
RAMBI (The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies / by the Jewish National and University Library) {open access} Hints for searching RAMBI. Citations to many scholarly journals and books in several languages on the topics of Jews, Judaism, Israel, humanities and social science.

Index to Jewish PeriodicalsCitations to many popular English language journals, magazines and newletters. {access varies - ask your local librarian}

WorldCat.
While you can search thousands of libraries worldwide with this search engine, one of it's most helpful features is the ability to limit the search to local libraries.

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
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.