DATABASES & E-REFERENCE MATERIALS: O

Provides access to a union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources including digitized books and articles, born digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets.

This handbook explores the causes and health consequences of obesity, as well as the connections between obesity, genetics, and environmental and behavioral factors. Explores the economic and social ramifications of obesity, covering issues such as weight discrimination and the complex question of how to determine responsibility for prevention and treatment.

This resource searches over 20 of the leading OER repositories, including open and archival book repositories, with a single query. Supports full record, title, author, and date range searches to find freely available teaching, learning, and research resources.

Access reports on capital spending by the world's largest oil companies.

Complete text from 1981 to present of the Oklahoman, which focuses on both local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Also includes access to the Oklahoman Web Edition from 2013 onward.

NOTE:  Some archival issues are available on microfilm. To access these, please use the Request via Sooner Xpress link in the following records: 1969-1984, 1984-1985, 1985-1990, 2005-2023. The most recent three months can also be viewed in print. 

OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Indexes papers from the Society of Petroleum Engineering.

Full digital scans of more than a million books, freely available to read, from the Internet Archive.

NOTE: An individual account is not required, but by signing up for a free account, OU users can check out any book in Open Library.

Provides access to streaming videos of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Provides access to: American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harpers Magazine, The National Review, The New Republic, America's Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, The Progressive, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker.

Focuses on 300 of the most important and useful synthetic reaction types. Individual examples of each reaction type are cataloged and discussions include the scope, selectivity, practicality, and reproducibility of a given reaction.