Librarian for Jewish and Israel Studies
Research Assistance
Research assistance in the social sciences and humanities is available at the Charles E. Young Research Library. See Reference and Research Help for complete reference service options.
Online Catalog for Finding Books at UCLA and Other Libraries
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Search UCLA's local library collection as well as the collections from all 10 UC libraries, two regional library facilities and the California Digital Library
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Locate the full text of millions of print and online books, journal articles, and other content
- Get up-to-the-minute status information on what's checked out, do things like renew your books, recall books checked out to other people or request items stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF)
Tips
Select the scope most appropriate for what you are looking for:
- Articles, books, and more searches all 10 UC campus libraries, the electronic resources subscribed to, as well as electronic resources that may not be in the UC libraries, but that can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
- Course Reserves searches material put on reserve by your professor. Search by course number, title or instructor.
- UCLA Library Catalog searches just material in the UCLA Libraries, with the exception of journal articles.
- UC Libraries Catalog searches all 10 UC campus libraries, with the exception of journal articles.
- UCLA Film & Television Archive searches only the holdings of the Film & Television Archive.
- WorldCat Global Catalog searches material in libraries throughout the United States and some foreign countries.
. You can request materials from anywhere in the world using the Interlibrary Loan service—you don't even have to specify where it's coming from—but it may take weeks or months to get here, and extremely rare materials may not be available for loan.
E-books
Below is a selection of e-books and e-book collections. Some are freely available, others are subscription services, so remote access may be necessary when accessing from off-campus.
- Digitized UC BooksUC's copies of our mass-digitized books and serials are loaded into HathiTrust. In addition, our digitization partners (Google and Internet Archive) also host copies of the UC books they have digitized. In all cases, copyright status determines whether books can be viewed in full.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, and social history, philosophy, and literature of selected countries and subjects. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.
- Digi20 "The present project was developed in the context of the long-term project “Digitalization of the DFG (German Research Society) special subject fields”. It concentrates on the digitalization of literature not in public domain, predominantly in the field of humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on monographs..."
- DSpace@Cambridge DSpace@Cambridge is the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge. The repository was established in 2003 to facilitate the deposit of digital content of a scholarly or heritage nature, allowing employees and their departments at the University to share and preserve this content in a managed environment.
- eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window UC's open access repository. Included are journals and peer-reviewed series such as the UEE: Open Version, and the Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window A repository of scanned books contributed from academic institutions across the United States, including UCLA. Books still in copyright are scanned and searchable, but the full text scans will not become available online until their copyright expires.
- Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository "The Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce the first stage of a project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection. The aim of this project is to make these works freely available not only to on site users but also to the public worldwide. This will both preserve the originals and greatly increase the number of people who will be able to refer to them. About 1100 volumes have been digitized with the generous support of the Dorot Foundation. Additional works are added weekly. Selection will be based on considerations of demand, preservation and funding. Only works in the public domain will be considered..."
- Judaica Europeana Judaica Europeana will work with European cultural institutions to identify content documenting the Jewish contribution to the cities of Europe...
- NYPL Yizkor Books Online The New York Public Library's Digital Yizkor Book Viewer provides page-turner technology to read or consult crystal-clear digital images of complete Holocaust memorial books, exactly as issued. 650 of the 700 postwar yizkor books at The New York Public Library are accessible online in their entirety.
- SOAS Research Online A free, publicly accessible repository of the research outputs of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The full text of these materials will be made available where possible.
- SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowImmense array of books, chapters, conference proceedings and journal articles in the social sciences and sciences, published by Springer-Verlag. After searching, unclick Preview Only Content, whose materials are not under UCLA subscription. Advanced search enabled at wheel icon to right of search.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowFifteen databases, plus individual journals and e-books. Includes 2011-present IEEE-Wiley books.
Dissertations
UCLA dissertations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
YRL Stacks and SRLF LD791.9.N3
- Catalogue of Russian dissertationsPDFs available for purchase
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign DissertationsSearch the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowIncludes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
Google Books
Romanization Tables
Click the links below to see Library of Congress Romanization tables, which you will need in order to locate UCLA Library holdings: