Databases & E-Reference Materials

Includes over 10,000 entries and articles describing discoveries, ground-breaking experiments, and scientists that have changed the course of history.

One of the most comprehensive collections of industry market research reports, IBIS World provides instant access to over 700 United States industries. In addition to their core Industry Report product, they also publish over 700 US Industry Risk Rating Reports, over 700 Industry Profiles, as well as hundreds of Economic & Demographic Profiles.

Provides access to an archive of raw social science data for research and instruction. As a member of ICPSR, the OU community has unlimited access and downloads; sign up for an ICPSR login to access content. All questions about ICPSR should be directed to the campus Official Representative for ICPSR, Dr. Ann Beutel, Department of Sociology. Electronic access to ICPSR is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Full text access to IEEE/IEE journals, proceedings, and standards.

Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The collection's core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.

InCites is a flexible research tool that uses publication information from Web of Science to enable users to analyze institutional research productivity and impact, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, perform funding agency analyses, and discover research publication and citation trends. Benchmarking analysis can be done at different levels, including institution, researcher, funding agency, country, journal, and research area. 

NOTE: You must set up an individual user account in order to access InCites. 

The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Comprised of over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), this collection provides documentation on topics such as partisan politics, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. Material is sourced from the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas in Austin, the preeminent Latin American library in the United States.

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

This database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world, including the main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslim minorities elsewhere. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works, and book reviews.