Cambridge University members now have access to the IMAIOS e-Anatomy and vet-Anatomy databases, following the conclusion of  our recent trials.

e-Anatomy is an award-winning interactive atlas of human anatomy. It is the most complete reference of human anatomy available on web, iPad, iPhone and android devices. Explore over 6700 anatomic structures and more than 670 000 translated medical labels.

vet-Anatomy is an interactive atlas of veterinary anatomy based on medical imaging. vet-Anatomy has been created on the same framework than the popular award-wining e-Anatomy, but dedicated to animals.

Text from the publisher website.

You can also access e-Anatomy and vet-Anatomy  via the Databases A-Z.

The Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) is a non-profit organization, headquartered in America, which runs a digital archive and encyclopedia that is free-to-access and indispensable for researchers of Jewish history and literature alike. While the JWA does focus mostly on Jews in North America, and particularly the United States, its resources do also cover a wide range of figures and topics that are relevant to the study of other Jewish communities, whether in Europe or throughout the rest of the world.

There are a number of resources openly available on JWA’s website (jwa.org), including a multimedia gallery, a regular podcast on Jewish women’s issues, and multiple collections which tell Jewish women’s stories. These collections are particularly useful for people exploring Jewish Studies. They center on themes such as women rabbis, Judaism and feminism, and Jewish American history, providing well-written and insightful introductions to these topics.

One of the most substantial resources that the JWA offers is its encyclopedia, which consists mostly of thoroughly-researched Jewish women’s biographies. The encyclopedia is linked as the first option under the website’s “Collections” header, but also can be accessed directly at jwa.org/encyclopedia. Here, you can search either by name or topic, with subjects such as “Education,” “Sports,” “Activism,” or “Science,” to name a few. Each of these also has readily-available subcategories in drop-down menus – “Science,” for instance, expands into topics such as “Agriculture” and “Medicine” – but you can also easily browse their entries by scrolling; each biography is clearly organized and illustrated when possible, making for easy browsing.

The biographies themselves are short overviews of Jewish women’s lives and impacts. They provide excellent insight into these figures and, accompanied by bibliographies, form the basis of further reading as well. This is not only the case for modern Jewish women – though recognizable and recent people such as Estée Lauder and Hannah Arendt have entries – but also women throughout Jewish history, such as Babatha, a Jewish landowner from the turn of the 2nd century, and Abigail, King David’s second wife.

Alongside these entries, the JWA’s encyclopedia also has articles which cover more thematic approaches to Jewish women’s histories. For instance, Deborah Dash Moore – a leading American historian – has written an overview of Jewish assimilation in the 20th-century United States, while other articles cover topics such as contemporary female English Jewish artists and Baghdadi Jewish women in India. These articles are scattered throughout the encyclopedia’s various categories. Together with their surrounding biographies, they help to provide context for those who are less familiar with these figures or their moments in Jewish history.

This encyclopedia is a strong and freely-available online resource that forms the basis both for introductory explorations of Jewish women’s experiences and further reference. If you are learning about or researching Judaism in general, it is an incredibly useful collection for all kinds of themes and topics. Or, if you just want to browse and read a little about interesting Jewish women throughout history, it is the go-to place for that, too.

Elijah Teitelbaum