The public computers at the Center for Jewish History now offer access to more than 50 databases for scholars of Jewish Studies and genealogists. Many of these databases are not available at public or university libraries, and they are too costly for an individual to purchase alone. The six public computers at the Center can be used free of charge during the Lillian Goldman Reading Room and Genealogy Institute open hours.

Resources for Jewish Studies include the full text of Encyclopedia Judaica and the Soncino Classics, with keyword searches of the Tanach, the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and the Zohar. Scholars can access full-text articles from such journals as American Jewish History, Jewish Social Studies, Modern Judaism, Prooftexts, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. For the general background research that is often necessary in Jewish Studies, the Center offers Britannica Online; Brockhaus 2000, a German encyclopedia; and several biographical dictionaries such as Biography Resource Center, American National Biography, Who's Who 1897-1998, and Wer Ist Wer, the German "Who's Who." Resources for studying the art and culture of the Jews are also available, inclusing The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Art, and the German-language World Biographical Dictionary of Artists.

The Center's public computers also provide access to a wide range of electronic resources that are useful for genealogy and family history research.