Databases & E-Reference Materials

The Merck Index is a database of chemicals, drugs and biologicals with over 11,000 monographs on single substances or groups of related compounds. It includes an appendix with monographs on organic named reactions and covers a wide range of subject areas, including human and veterinary drugs, flavours and fragrances, herbal medicines, laboratory reagents, and much more.

This database provides access to the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, hydrology, and related sciences. Resources include journal articles, conference proceedings, eBooks, and technical reports. Some full text is available.

Searches Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), and Algology, Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C). Microbiology A-C are sub-databases of ProQuest's Natural Science Collection.

Searches across multiple ProQuest science databases, including Agricultural & Environmental Science (1960 - present), Biological Science (1946 - present), and Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Science (1950 - present).

Features 15,000+ news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790. Some full text is available.

OU Libraries will cease subscribing to Nexis Uni, effective July 1, 2024. More information about this decision, as well as a list of databases covering the content in Nexis Uni, is available. 

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.

Index to public and social policy issues, foreign and domestic. Materials indexed include journal articles, government documents, books, pamphlets, yearbooks, and directories.

PolicyMap is an interactive online data and mapping tool that contains thousands of indicators used to understand communities. Regularly updated indicators include demographics, real estate, health, jobs, income and spending, housing, crime, quality of life, education, socio-economic factors, and more. Data is available at many geographic entities including census tract, zip code, city, state, school districts and political boundaries. Data sources include the Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and CDC BRFSS and is accessible as interactive maps, tables, charts, and reports.

Contains information on nearly 30,000 organic compounds including structure, physical data, and some spectral data. Users can identify unknown compounds or locate additional data and references for a known compound. Each entry includes trade names, properties, constituent monomers, commercial applications, manufacturing processes, and references.

Provides access to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Some full text is available.