Databases & E-Reference Materials

Now included in the ProQuest One Business database, this resource covers business and management topics with information on more than 60,000 companies through journals, newspapers, executive profiles, reports on market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends. Includes Snapshots North America, Oxford Analytical Research, Wall Street Journal, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Full text is available.

Includes abstracts for articles published in the areas of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.

Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies with access to more than 7,000 peer reviewed journals and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.

Includes journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery and affiliated organizations. In addition to the current content OU Libraries subscribes to, ACM has made freely available the first 50 years (1951-2000) of its publications and related content, including data sets, software, slides, audio recordings, and videos.

Provides access to an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, including prefaces, original texts, critical apparatus, and indices. This collection of documents examines the lives of saints, arranged according to each saint's feast day.

Provides access to major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Publications include Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder. Full text is available.

Covers the history of Africa and its diverse people over nearly 400 years and includes more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

Provides access to more than 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Features English and foreign language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Database of more than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

Contains information on aerospace technology, engineering, and science. Includes journal articles and conference papers from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Some full text is available.