Research Guides

This guide provides research support in the area of dance.

A guide to electronic text and image collections of use to scholars in the Humanities.

A list of resources owned by OU of interest to drama and theatre scholars, and some strategies for conducting research in these areas.

A guide for researching energy management.

This guide will help connect the researcher to a wide variety of engineering resources, including books, journal literature, reference material, and standards.

This guide lists resources for English as a Second Language.

A general guide for conducting research on English-language literature from the UK, the US, and elsewhere.

A guide to getting started on your business start up adventure.

Browse this Guide for information about 5th floor Special Collections Exhibits

Prepared for Professor Judith Maute's Feminist Jurisprudence class, this guide directs research to books, journals, treatises, and databases on this topic.

A guide for students in FMS 2033 (Writing for Film) and for researchers working in Film and Media Studies generally.

This guide will provide resources on financial literacy.

This guide is designed to help students locate legal databases which are useful for identifying paper topics. The full-text legal resources listed below are good starting points for legal research in general.

This guide was originally designed to assist students working on assignments in Dr. Hyde's American Frontiers course (HIST 3453) and Dr. Kruer's American Colonies course (HIST 3082) in Spring 2017, so the focus is on U.S. biography.

This guide explains how to find the full text of search results.

A hub of business related information. Topics include Available Franchises, Consumer Research, Market Research, and more.

Resources and strategies for scholars of French literature, language, and culture.

Guide to genealogy resources in US Federal Documents.

Guide to geology and geophysics resources

A guide for researchers at all levels of German culture and thought.

Guide to Primary Sources in Government Documents.

This is an overview of resources in the OU Government Documents Collection.

View all the government information research guides on a variety of topics.

Research government documents by subject.

The purpose of this guide is to direct you to the best healthcare management resources for your research.

Links to historical magazines.

Links to digital historical newspapers.

This guide provides research support in the history of photography.

Guide to primary source materials in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

This guide will help you use the OU library website for research and study in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

This guide highlights materials that can be used for research and study in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (search by topics).

This guide highlights materials that can be used for research and study in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (search by type of resource: introductory works, reference books, advanced texts)

How to locate primary resources for historical research at the University of Oklahoma Libraries.

This guide will help you find secondary sources in history.

This guide will help you do a literature review as either a stand-alone project or as part of a dissertation, thesis, or other research project.

This guide was created for a Fall 2022 course, HIST 3573, Indian Territory and Early Oklahoma, with Dr. Cori Simon, but may be useful for other researchers.