DATABASES & E-REFERENCE MATERIALS: P

A collection of databases available from ProQuest on various subjects, including business, economics, history, biology, newspapers, art, politics, philosophy, earth and atmospheric sciences, and psychology.

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

Indexes U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 (abstracts since 1980) and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716. This database includes some dissertations from Canada and Europe, as well as some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Find most OU dissertations full text through summer 2013; after that date, find OU dissertations in SHAREOK. Most dissertations from other institutions, 1997 to present, are full text. To obtain pre-1997 dissertations, use the interlibrary loan request form.

Comprehensive business and economics database with global coverage featuring thousands of full text journals, working papers, dissertations, videos, wire feeds, market research reports, and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. This collection is comprised of the following databases: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database; J.P Morgan Research; and the Business Video Database.

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.

PsycBooks provides access to over 4,600 scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association. Titles include historical and classic works from the behavioral and social sciences. Updated monthly, this collection also includes all volumes of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series, APA Classic books, the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology, and hard-to-find and out-of-print books dating back to the 1600s.

Provides coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines. Some full text is available.

This collection includes over 300 training videos in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, social work, counseling, and addiction treatment. Videos include interviews with expert practitioners, therapy sessions, clinical demonstrations, nonverbal observation, and in-depth commentaries. A variety of approaches are covered, including art therapy, couples therapy, emotionally focused therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, positive psychology, REBT, school counseling, motivational interviewing, treatment planning, family systems, and more. 

Covers psychology and related disciplines in the behavioral sciences. Materials indexed include journals, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Some full text is available.

Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, as well as descriptive information about each test, its development, and administration. Full text is available for some instruments.