Library Services for Distance Learners
All Library Services are available or explained on the Library’s website.
Highlights are listed below:
Contact JTS Librarians:
Phone – 212-678-8081 Monday – Thursday 9am-6pm
Email – library@jtsa.edu
IM or Chat – Gmail Chat with imjtsa weekday afternoons
Contact JTS Library Circulation Staff
when librarians are not available
212-678-8082 option 1
Library Hours: Click here for hours.
Reserve Readings via Blackboard.
Remote Access to Subscription Databases
Log on using your JTS email ID and password.
Free databases are not listed here. Some of the most useful databases are non-subscription: RAMBI, ERIC and
Berman Jewish Public Policy Archive (over 1,000 full text articles and recent reports on Jewish education) are
free! Access them via Online Resources.
Articles in Journals:
The links below will allow you to identify the best database to search, but remote log-on, searching and full-text
retrieval must be accomplished via Remote Access, described above.
Journal Locator: Is the article you want available digitally at JTS? Check the journal title in our Journal Locator.
Subscription databases providing articles are listed at Online Resources.
The best article databases for each subject are listed by subject, under the heading “articles”
Many article databases are also listed at Jewish Studies (General) – Articles
Hebrew article databases are available here; most do not require a subscription
Books
Digitized books from the JTS digital collections: Includes rare books, pamphlets and manuscripts.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and other Reference Resources Encyclopedia Judaica 2nd ed., Encyclopedia
of Jews in the Islamic World, Oxford English Dictionary, Rav Milim (a Hebrew Dictionary) and other reference
materials are available via Remote Access.
Dissertations An extensive database of full-text dissertations from US and foreign universities is available via
the ProQuest Dissertations database. Please access it via Remote Access login.
EBooks:
Selected books in the JTS library are available as eBooks. They are accessible off-campus via
Remote Access login. Choose Ebrary ebooks. Search by author, title, subject or words in full-text. To see
a list of our eBooks by discipline, click on Browse All Titles.
Bar Ilan Responsa Database
Bible, Mishna, Talmud, Midrash, codes, commentaries, Responsa, and
hundreds of other Rabbinic texts, with sophisticated searching capabilities. Available via Remote Access
login. For best results, set your browser to enable cookies, and download the latest version of java.
Hebrew Books
Worldcat
An extensive collection of Hebrew books is available via www.hebrewbooks.org
Find a copy of a book in a library near you via www.worldcat.org
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Request your local library to borrow, on your behalf, a book from the JTS
Library or another research library.
Additional full-text books
are available via the websites listed in Online Resources - Browse By
Subject/Type. For each discipline, see the section entitled "Books"
Library Research Guides:
Consult subject-specific annotated guides to printed and web-based materials; watch video guides on your
computer. Available here.
Online Resources
Subscription databases and vetted web-based resources, useful in an academic Jewish studies environment,
arranged by subject and by title.
JTS's Digital Collections
Selected items from JTS’s Special Collections (manuscripts, archives, music, rare books, etc) which have been
digitized. Available here.
Manuscripts
Approximately 3,000 selected JTS manuscripts have been digitized and are available at
www.hebrewmanuscripts.org