Databases & E-Reference Materials

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.

Current subscriptions to Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, Political Science, Sociology, and Psychology.

OU Libraries also maintains access to archived content through 2019 for 27 Annual Reviews publications: Biochemistry, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics & Biomolecular Structure, Energy & the Environment, Cell & Developmental Biology, Clinical Psychology, Immunology, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Medicine, Nutrition, Entomology, Fluid Mechanics, Genetics, Genomics & Human Genetics, Law and Social Science, Materials Research, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Nuclear & Particle Science, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physical Chemistry, Physiology, Phytopathology, Pathology, Plant Physiology, and Public Health. Full text is available.

Searches six ASFA databases: Aquaculture Abstracts, Marine Biotechnology Abstracts, Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality, Ocean Technology Policy & Non-Living Resources, Oceanic Abstracts, and Biological Sciences and Living Resources. Subjects covered include marine environments, policy and legislation, wildlife management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments.

General database covering all subject areas, including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Provides citations to more than 12,600 academic journals and magazines.

ArXiv.org is an open-access repository containing over 2 million electronic preprints and postprints. ArXiv.org is maintained by Cornell University, but does not perform peer-review on submitted preprint articles. Scientific fields covered include mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, physics, electrical engineering, economics, and statistics. 

The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library contains a large collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. This database covers a variety of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

This reference work provides descriptions of the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology and other biological properties of all named prokaryotic taxa.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world's largest open access digital collection for biodiversity literature and archives. This free resource provides access to hundreds of thousands of volumes from library and museum collections all over the world. It also provides a range of tools and services to enhance research, including scientific name tools, data exports and APIs, altmetrics, and reference management tools. 

Indexes over 50 bioscience research journals focusing on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text access is available.

Provides access to journals, meetings, patents, and books in the areas of life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.