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.

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.

Access to over 700 freely available ISO standards. 

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.

Provides access to the Overland Journeys: Travels in the West collection, which contains over 70,000 images from the Travels in the West and Southwest and Plains & Rockies microfilm collections.

An A-Z reference guide to the American stage, including playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and more.

Guide to philosophers and schools of thought from antiquity to the present day and to the major philosophical systems around the globe.