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Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals on cultural, economic, political, and social change. Covers theories and practices of socialism and revolution, including ecology, democracy, anarchism, feminism, organized labor, indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ+ issues.
Ethnic NewsWatch offers full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals from African American, Native American, Hispanic, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, and Jewish cultures. Featuring over 2.5 million articles, including historical coverage from 1959-1989, it is an essential resource for diverse perspectives in ethnic and minority studies.
Historical Abstracts indexes periodical literature in history and related social sciences, covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. It includes topics like world history, military history, women's history, and the history of education.
RAMBI is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies, and in the study of Eretz Israel. The database compiles sources from thousands of periodicals, mainly from the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Users can search in English and Hebrew, and can save results in personal folders. RAMBI also provides links to catalogs at other libraries in Israel, as well as other indexes and bibliographic resources.
The following research libraries maintain excellent guides to openly available primary materials for Judaic Studies. Others are easily located by googling: primary sources jewish studies
Guide to Online Primary Sources: Jewish Studies, UC San Diegeo
Jewish Studies, Primary Sources, Arizona State University