comparison chart Institutions
| Otzar HaHochma hardware | Otzar online | |||
| Concurrent user licenses | Online version for public libraries |
School online version | ||
| Connection options | local network | IP range of institution | local network | local network |
| Access to the database | with a USB port | online | online | online |
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| Downloading software to your PC |
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| Appropriate for | single or multiple workstations on a network | Especially suited to large institutions: universities, Jewish research institutes and departments of religious studies, colleges and other places of higher education. | Public library with a LAN | School computers connected to a LAN |
| Library Scope | ||||
| Number of books | 40,000 Judaic books | 45,000 Judaic books | 45,000 Judaic books | 13,000 Judaic books |
| Limited Editions | available | |
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| Pricelist | ||||
| First user | $1,500 | $675 | $395 | |
| Each additional simultaneous user |
$1,000 | $135 | $75 | |
| Periodic fee / one-time payment |
one-time payment | annual fee | annual fee | annual fee |
| Updates | Separate charge | automatically | automatically | automatically |
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In the near future | In the near future | In the near future |
| Scan-to-text conversion | |
In the near future | In the near future | In the near future |
| Effortlessly access commentaries on Shas, Shulchan Aruch, and Torah Portions: | |
In the near future | In the near future | In the near future |
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| Adding personal notes (annotations) links and keys | |
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| Stored Searches in tab format | |
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| Stored searches | |
In the near future | In the near future | In the near future |
| Technical requirements | ||||
| Recommended browsers |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+ Mozilla Firefox 2.0+ Apple Safari Google Chrome Opera |
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| PC requirements | Pentium IV and up. | |||
| Operating system | Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 |
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 |
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 |
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Note: Public libraries with a local network can purchase acces to Otzar HaHochma's software with similar features to the Otzar HaHochma hardware version. This possibility does require downloading software to PC's.