Databases & E-Reference Materials

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research provides public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations. Roper iPoll includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and datasets are all available. 

This reference work explores international economic thought and offers full-length survey discussions by the most respected experts in the field.

This dictionary covers all the topics, issues, and terms in the field, including: business economics, consumer behavior, corporate strategy, financial management, human resource management, information technology, management accounting, marketing and organizational behavior and work psychology.

Includes definitive explanations of the key terms, issues, theories, and concepts in economics today. Key figures in the field are also discussed.

This reference work is a guide to principal terms and theoretical concepts in literary studies in the twenty-first century. Topics include genre, form, cultural theory, and literary technique in the study and production of literature.

A guide to the ideas, arguments, and history of anthropology. Includes over 270 entries on important areas of anthropological work and over 300 short biographies of important figures in the field.

Critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic, and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised.

Provides full text access to journals and eBooks published by the Royal Society of Chemistry to which OU subscribes.

Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions. Full text is available.

Covering sociology, history, psychology, politics, business, physical education, health and research methods, The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies is a reference guide for those who study the social aspects of sport.