Library databases and stand alone electronic resources are accessible remotly off campus, to the college's staff and students via the faculty/students portal (identification with email + password required).
The list below contains a brief introduction to the resources featured on the 'Library Databases' page.
Most databases utilize AI tools to enhance search experience, providing translation, summarization and insight tools.
Discovery tools:
Google scholar
Google Scholar is a web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Google Scholar index includes most peer reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.
Databases:
APA PsycNET
APA PsycNET Journals provides access to a rich collection of peer-reviewed psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association.
EbscoHost
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service. EBSCOhost provides access to a large number of different databases in various subjects.
Proquest interface - (provides access to: ProQuest Central, ProQuest One Education, ERIC)
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary research database offering full-text access to scholarly journals, news, market reports, dissertations, and videos.
ProQuest One Education
ProQuest One Education is tailored for education-focused institutions, providing curated content including journals, ebooks, teaching videos, and ERIC-indexed materials. It features intuitive navigation and AI-powered tools to enhance research and support both academic and practical teaching needs.
ERIC
ERIC offers access to millions of education-related records, including peer-reviewed journal articles, research reports, conference papers, policy documents, dissertations and scholarly materials—much of it in full-text.
Sage Premier
Sage is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content. Sage Premier package provides access to hundreds of scholarly electronic journals in full text.
Taylor & Francis Education
Taylor & Francis is one of the world's leading publishers of advanced, emergent and applied academic research and knowledge.Taylor & Francis Education provides access to hundreds of peer-reviewed journals in the field of education.
Databases in Hebrew:
IHP - Index of Hebrew periodicals of Haifa University
The "Index to Hebrew Periodicals" (IHP) is a multi-disciplinary bibliographic indexing project covering articles from Hebrew periodicals and monographs. With a Hebrew and English interface, IHP delivers content in Hebrew (and other languages).
Index of Henrietta Szold Institute
The database includes bibliographic information and abstracts of thousands of publications and studies (books, articles, research reports, MA and PhD theses) on education and social sciences, written by Israeli researchers and published both in Israel and abroad.
It also contains information on research tools used in studies conducted in the fields of education and society, including questionnaires, tests, and scales.
JSTOR (articles in Hebrew in full text)
The Hebrew Journals Project is the result of an extensive collaboration of JSTOR with the University of Haifa Library and the National Library of Israel to digitize and make available the complete back runs of prominent Hebrew-language academic journals. Access is now granted to the full text of 52 head titles.
RAMBI – The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI is a selective bibliography of academic articles in all fields of Jewish studies, including the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel. Maintained by the National Library of Israel, it includes materials in Hebrew, Latin, and Cyrillic scripts, sourced from thousands of journals and collections. The database is updated daily and contains hundreds of thousands of records.
Responsa Project
The Bar Ilan Responsa Project is the world's largest electronic collection of Torah literature of its kind. The Online Responsa Project encompasses the best of the Jewish sources representing a period of over three thousand years of heritage and tradition. All texts are fully and professionally typed in, proofread and hyper-linked.
The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers ('Shut' in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.
Kotar - Iyun
Kotar Iyun (Reference Books) is a Hebrew-language digital library offering academic and educational books in fields like history, literature, social sciences, and Jewish studies.
Kotar – Textbooks
An online library that provides teachers and students with textbooks published by CET - the Center for Educational Technology and other leading publishers in Israel.
Psik
Psik Digital Library provides access to a curated collection of Hebrew-language academic books in psychology, education, and social sciences.
It features AI-powered tools that enhance search, reading, and discovery experiences, making research more intuitive and efficient.
Movie Discovery
Movie Discovery database was created by filmmakers. It features hundreds of documentary films, designed for use by academic institutions for learning and teaching purposes.
Portal MASA
Portal MASA, developed by MOFET Institute Portal MASA, developed by MOFET Institute, is a rich educational content database offering summaries and reviews of academic articles in the fields of education and teacher training from Israel and around the world. It serves educators, teacher trainers, students, and researchers, providing access to curated, translated, and professionally edited materials from over 400 journals, conferences, and professional sources.
Rav Milim – Hebrew dictionary
Rav Milim Dictionary is a comprehensive Hebrew-language dictionary developed by Melingo under the guidance of Prof. Yaacov Choueka.
It includes over 70,000 entries with definitions, synonyms, idioms, verb conjugations, and contextual usage examples.
The dictionary supports advanced morphological search and is regularly updated with terminology from the Academy of the Hebrew Language and various academic fields.
