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ABI/INFORM Global

Provides access to articles from business and management information publications. Focus includes economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing and product information. Includes full-text and bibliographic citations.

Academic Search Elite

Includes full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects: business, social sciences, humanities, general science, education, multicultural and general reference.

Academic Universe

See LexisNexis Academic.

ACM Digital Library

Covers journal and newsletter publications as well as conference proceedings from the Association of Computing Machinery. Citations and full-text.

ACS Publications

Full-text access to content from the journals, magazines and other publications of the American Chemical Society.

AgeLine

Contains abstracts of books, reports and periodical articles on gerontology and aging-related topics.

AGRICOLA

Provides citations and abstracts for periodical materials, books, maps, government reports, theses, patents, software and audiovisual materials.  Focus is on agriculture, forestry and animal science.

AICPA Literature
(Password required)

Offers online access to publications from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Ask at Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.
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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals

Provides a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.  

Alternative Press Index

Indexes alternative, radical and leftist publications to provide coverage of issues on cultural, economic, political and social change topics. (1991- )

Alternative Press Index Archive

Indexes alternative, radical and leftist publications to provide coverage of issues on cultural, economic, political and social change topics. (1969-1990)

America: History & Life

Provides citations and abstracts for scholarly literature in the social sciences and humanities. Focus is history, culture, and current affairs of the U.S. and Canada.

American Verse Project

Provides a full-text electronic archive of selected volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Contains primarily 19th-century poetry, although a few 18th-century and early 20th-century century texts are included.

AnthroSource

Full-text access to the current journals and bulletins of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Also includes access to archived AAA publications.

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts

See Computer & Applied Science Complete.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

See Web of Science.

ArtSTOR

Provides an extensive collection of images of world art, architecture, and visual art.

ASM Alloy Center

Features ASM property data, performance charts, coating processes, corrosion data and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.

ASM Handbooks

Online access to ASM Handbooks and ASM Desk Editions.

ASTM International Standards
(Password required)

ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, is a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems and services.
Ask at Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.

Aviation Tradescan

Current 5 years are located in Reference TL545 .A94. Older years in Index Collection.

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BasicBIOSIS

Provides citations to publications that cover basic biology and other life sciences. Includes popular and scholarly science journals.

BioDigest

Provides life-science information written in non-technical style.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index

Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased.

Biography Resource Center

Offers full-text access to biographic information on living and deceased figures. Jointly licensed by OSU-Tulsa and TCC.

BioOne

Provides full-text access to research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Most content from small societies and non-commercial publishers.

Blackwell Synergy

Full-text access to journals published by Blackwell.  Includes content from international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects covered include medicine, science, social science and the humanities.

Books in Print

Offers complete, unbiased bibliographic information on millions of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

Books in Print (Professional)

Same as above but especially for booksellers, publishers and librarians.

Business Source Elite

Provides full-text access and indexing for an extensive collection of journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting and more.


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CAB Abstracts

Covers international research and literature in agriculture, animal health, forestry, human health, human nutrition, management and conservation of natural resources.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Indexes federal publications that include descriptive records for historical and current publications. Also provides direct links to those that are available online. Search by authoring agency, title, subject, general keyword, and more.
CCH Tax Research Network

Provides full-text access to CCH publications, which thoroughly cover tax and accounting issues. Addresses state and federal tax law.

Cell Press

Cell Press is committed to improving scientific communication through the publication of exciting biology research and reviews.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Provides descriptions of books for children and young adults. Includes reviews, book jackets, awards lists, best book lists, state reading lists and more.

Chicago Journals Online

Provides access to the journals and hardcover serials from the University of Chicago Press. Areas covered include the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences and physical sciences.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Provides full-text access to content from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Includes news, information and job postings for college and university faculty.

Chronicle of Philanthropy

Provides full-text access to content from The Chronicle of Philanthropy.  Includes news for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers and others involved in philanthropic enterprise.

CINAHL Plus with Full-Text

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and allied health. Citations including full-text.

ClasePeriodica

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities; PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

Communication Abstracts

v.8 - located in Index P87 .C59733 (the print indexes, or indices)

Compendex

Provides indexing to engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Coverage includes bioengineering, transportation, applied physics, electronics, chemical, mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering and much more.

CompPile (Composition & Rhetoric)

Provides ready reference to published 20th-century work in post-secondary composition and rhetoric, from the beginning of WWII (1939) to current.

Computer & Applied Science Complete

Covers research and development of the computing and applied sciences disciplines.

Congressional Universe

See LexisNexis Congressional.

Contemporary Authors

Offers biographical and bibliographical data on contemporary authors. Database is continually updated.  Full-text.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

Provides critical essays on contemporary authors. Entries also include biographical overviews, principal works and information for further study. Includes all author entries from Volume 95 forward; selected author entries from volumes before that.

Contemporary Women's Issues

Indexes books, journals, newsletters, reports, government agencies and fact sheets.  Provides full-text access to publications on women’s issues including education, health, politics, human rights, reproductive rights and more.

CountryWatch

Covers demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental subject matter.

CQ Electronic Library

Contains five CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Press tools to provide research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.  Resources include CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Weekly, CQ Public Affairs Collection, CQ Supreme Court Collection, and CQ Voting and Elections Collection.

CREDO Reference
(formerly xreferplus)

Provides full-text access to online ready-reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotation sources, etc.).

CultureGrams

Current information on countries and territories from around the world. Categories addressed include land, climate, history, greetings, family, diet, economy, education, health and more. Also includes state information.



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DIALOG

Mediated searches available upon request.
Ask at Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Provides full text access to free electronic journals. Focus is on scientific and scholarly journals with peer review or editorial quality control.

Dissertations and Theses

Provides citations and abstracts of doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Some full-text available.

D & B Key Business Ratios

See Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios.


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eBooks from NetLibrary

Access and check-out full-text electronic books.
Must register first time on campus.

ebrary

A general collection of electronic books; you will be prompted for your O-Key logon as needed.

EBSCOAnimals

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Some full-text.

EBSCOHost

A variety of databases providing many full-text journal articles.

EconLit

Covers scholarly journals, books, dissertations and working papers on economics. Abstracts and full-text.

EDGAR

Provides SEC (Security & Exchange Commission) filings for all public companies; includes registration statements, periodic reports and many other forms.

Early English Books Online

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Emerald Management

Covers scholarly publications in the fields of management, information science and engineering. 

Enchanted Learning

Educational material for home or classroom emphasizing creativity and the
enjoyment of learning.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Online version of the popular print encyclopedia.

Engineering Village

Provides access to engineering and technical literature via several products, including Compendex, Geobase, Inspec and NTIS.

Environmental Universe

See LexisNexis Environmental.

ERIC (Journals & Documents)
(through EBSCO)

Provides access to content from journal articles and report documents through Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Includes citations, abstracts and some full-text.

Ethnic NewsWatch

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Access scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers covering the arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology. Includes abstracts and full- text.


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FASB Literature
(Password required)

Online literature from FASB.
Ask at Reference Desk. Only available on-campus. Turn off pop-up blocker.
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Factiva

Provides extensive database of business news, information and reports from around the world. English and foreign language sources included. Full-text access to Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Formerly Dow Jones Interactive.

Facts on File World News Digest

Provides the facts of the news as reported in major newspapers and news magazines from the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. News from 1940 to the present.

Film Literature Index Online
  (1976-2001)

Contains citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Covers film and television periodicals from the U.S. and abroad.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts

Abstracts essential sources of information on food science, food technology, and human nutrition.

Funk & Wagnalls
New World Encyclopedia

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia covers an array of topics.

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Gale's Literary Index

Indexes content from the major literature products published by Gale. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, the Twayne’s Authors series (English, US and World) and much more. No full-text.

General Science Abstracts

Contains citations for core English-language, scientific, and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastic, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. Some full-text is available.

GEOBASE

Indexes and abstracts journals, books, monographs, proceedings and reports from worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology.

GLOBUS & National Trade Data Bank
(Password required)

Access includes current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the trade library.
Ask at the Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Government Printing Office

GPO Access provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the three branches of the Federal Government. 


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Health Source for Consumers

Focuses on health information for consumers and lay people. Features full-text as well as abstracts and indexing. Sources include periodicals, newsletters, books and pamphlets.

Health Source for Nursing

Focuses on scholarly literature from medical disciplines.  Excellent coverage for nursing and allied health. Features full-text as well as abstracts and indexing.

Historical Abstracts

Provides citations and abstracts to content covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Includes academic, historical journals in over 40 languages. Searches may be set up to focus on world history or may be set to include or exclude the U.S. and Canada

Hospital Blue Book Available at the Reference Desk (CD-ROM).

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IEE/IEEE Engineering Library

Provides conference proceedings, journal articles and standards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Also includes publications from IET.  Most is full-text.

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (D & B)

Calculates key business ratios to assess and compare business performance. 

Inspec Includes physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computers, control, information technology, mechanical engineering, production engineering.
See Dona Davidson at 918 594-8139 or dona.davidson@okstate.edu to request a search in this database.


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JAMA & the Archives

Includes the full text of JAMA and the specialty Archives Journals, published by the American Medical Association.

JSTOR

A comprehensive full-text archive of scholarly journal literature in a wide range of disciplines. Covers business, science, mathematics, economics, philosophy, history, politics, sociology, literature, archaeology and much more.

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Key Business Ratios

The electronic version of D&B useful product.

Kluwer

See SpringerLink.

Knovel

Covers the world of applied science and engineering from chemistry and materials science to mechanical, electrical and construction engineering. Provides access to reference books, handbooks, databases and more.




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LexisNexis Academic
 (formerly Academic Universe)

Provides access to newspaper, wire, journal and magazine content. Focuses on news, business, legal, health and general reference sources. Full-text and abstracts.
LexisNexis Congressional
 (formerly Congressional Universe)
Provides abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, financial data and regulatory and statutory resources.
LexisNexis Environmental
 (formerly
Environmental Universe
Provides access to Environment Abstracts, News, Journals & Commentary, Codes & Regulations, Case Law & Agency Actions and Waste & Materials. Full-text and abstracts.
LexisNexis Statistical
 (formerly Statis
tical Universe)
Provides access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies and more.

Library, Information Science and Technolgy

Indexes the literature of library and information science and related disciplines. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Abstracts and indexes literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Focus includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Covers various fields including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Live Search Academic Search for scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations and academic books.

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MLA International Bibliography
(Modern Language Association)

Provides bibliographic access to journal articles, books and dissertations.  Coverage is international in scope. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory, criticism, dramatic arts and aspects of printing and publishing.

MLA Directory of Periodicals

Lists periodicals covered in MLA International Bibliography. Subject coverage includes literature, language, linguistics, folklore and more. Provides addresses, advertising rates and information regarding submissions for publication.

MAS Ultra—School Edition

Covers popular general interest and current events magazines. Mostly full-text. Also includes content from well known reference books and a small image collection.

MasterFile Premier

Covers many general periodicals covering a range of disciplines. Subjects include general reference, business, education, health, general science and more. Mostly full-text.  Also includes content from well known reference books, an image library, primary source material and more.

MathSciNet

Offers reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information to mathematical science literature.   Some full-text.

Register for MediaMark online

Provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand and advertising media preferences. Over 25,000 sample unit consumers.
Must register first time on campus.

MEDLINE

Indexes and abstracts publications covering all fields of medicine and allied health.

Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

The Terrorism Knowledge Base offers in-depth information on terrorist incidents, groups, and trials. The Responder Knowledge Base contains information on currently available products, along with a wealth of related information such as standards, training, and grants.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Provides users with a comprehensive guide—including descriptive information and edited reviews—to several thousand contemporary testing instruments.

Mergent Online

Provides corporate descriptions, financial reports and histories of US and international companies. Includes subsidiaries, personnel, company news, corporate debt and annual reports. Database formerly known as FISonline. Mergent formerly known as Moody’s. 

Middle Search Plus

Provides full-text for popular magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students. Also includes dictionary and encyclopedia content as well as biographical and historical essays and primary source documents.

Military and Government Collection

Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Publications covered include periodicals, academic journals and pamphlets. Many titles full-text.



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National Fire Code
(Password required)

Provides access to codes and standards from the NFPA, the authority on fire, electrical and building safety.
Ask at Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.

National Newspapers
(via ProQuest)

Provides abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.
Nature Journals Offers full-text of publications from Nature Publishing Group. Also serves as a portal to podcasts, blogs, Nature reports, web feeds and much more.
NCJRS
(National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Contains summaries of international and U.S. publications, including books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. Designed for criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Subjects include criminology, corrections, juvenile justice, law enforcement, probation, parole, substance abuse, and much more.
NetAdvantage See Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage further down this list.

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 20,000 electronic books, available for browsing or check-out.
Must register first time on campus.

NetLibrary Reference Center

Search and browse reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more.

New York Times
(via Factiva)

A major newspaper known world-wide for its in-depth news coverage. Provides full-text of articles published June 1, 1980 and after. Also includes the New York Times Magazine.
New York Times
(via ProQuest)
Provides full-text of articles published June 1, 1980 and after.  Also includes New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine content from 1997 forward.

New York Times Historical
(via ProQuest)

Provides full-text access to issues published between 1851 and 2003.

NewsBank

Full-text of newspapers world-wide, including local and regional newspapers: The Oklahoman (1982- ) and the Tulsa World (1989- ).

Newspaper Source
(via Ebsco)

Provides cover-to-cover full text for numerous regional U.S. newspapers and international newspapers as well as television and radio news transcripts from major media outlets.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries - Colonial to 1950
Includes the diaries and correspondence of women—both famous and not so famous—from the Colonial period to 1950. Full-text. Collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.


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The Oklahoman

Provides full-text articles from The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City newspaper). Coverage begins with 1982.

Oklahoma Periodicals Index

Provides a searchable online index to articles about people, places, history, culture, wildlife, and natural history in the State of Oklahoma with some coverage outside the state. Consists of four key periodicals: The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Today, Outdoor Oklahoma, and Persimmon Hill.

Online Books Page

Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Also aims to encourage the development of such online books for the benefit and edification of all.

Open Access Journals

See Directory of Open Access Journals further up this page.
Oxford African American Studies Center

Provides access to a scholarly, comprehensive collection of materials that focus on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African culture. Sources include reference works, primary source documents, maps, charts and more.

Oxford English Dictionary Online The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookbooks.
Oxford Journals
Provides full text access to the academic and research journals published by Oxford University Press. Coverage includes these subjects: humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine and social sciences.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Offers full-text access to many fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range.



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PDF-4 Minerals
The database content covers >95% of all classified mineral species as defined by Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species and the International Mineralogical Association with hundreds of additional, yet to be classified species.
See the second computer at the Reference Desk. Only available on-campus.

Philosopher's Index via CSA Illumina

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals on philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language. Discontinues March 1, 2008.

Philosopher's Index via EBSCOHost

Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals on philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language.

PILOTS

Citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health issues related to traumatic events.

PreCINAHL

Intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Primary Search

Provides indexing and abstracting for a large collection of children’s magazines and offers full-text for many magazines designed for elementary school students. Also includes content from The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary.

Primary Sources in African American History

Provides access to a wide range of primary sources in African American history. Coverage is from the colonial era through the late 20th Century. Also Guide to Microforms in African American History.

ProQuest see ABI/Inform Global or Research Library

Professional Development Collection

Provides a highly specialized collection for professional educators. Sources include high quality education journals and reports. Some full-text.

PsycBOOKS

Access chapters from the scholarly books published by the American Psychological Association in PDF format. Also includes out-of-print titles and classic titles from the field of psychology.

PsycINFO

Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Most content is from peer-reviewed sources.

PubMed

Provides indexing and abstracts for biomedical literature. Includes content from MEDLINE and other life science and health related sources.

PubMed Central

Provides an electronic archive of full-text journal articles. Contains over half a million articles, most of which have a corresponding entry in PubMed.

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Reference USA

Contains directory information and other details on US businesses and US residences.

Reference Universe

Provides links to electronic reference works.  Pulls content from subject encyclopedias, back-of-the-book indexes and specialized subject databases.  Covers a variety of subjects.

Regional Business News

Provides comprehensive, full-text coverage for business journals, newspapers and newswires.  Covers all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Research Library

Covers a wide range of topics including the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, law, psychology, social sciences, sciences and women’s interests.

Roth Index to Poetry & Short Stories

Available at the Reference Desk (CD-ROM). Then see Microfiche Collection.


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