Databases & E-Reference Materials

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.

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.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study with citations that link to those sources. University Libraries provides access to the following subjects: Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Classical Studies, Hinduism, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Renaissance, and Victorian Literature.

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.

Contains biographies of over 60,000 people important to the history of the British Isles.