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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 Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world's largest open access digital collection for biodiversity literature and archives. This free resource provides access to hundreds of thousands of volumes from library and museum collections all over the world. It also provides a range of tools and services to enhance research, including scientific name tools, data exports and APIs, altmetrics, and reference management tools. 

Collection of over 80,000 open access journals covering a wide range of subject areas including STEM, the humanities, and the social sciences. It includes journals published in a variety of languages, including English, Spanish, French, Polish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Portuguese.

Included in the World Newspaper Archive database, this collection provides access to ten different nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian newspapers written in Bengali, Gujarati, and English. 

ArXiv.org is an open-access repository containing over 2 million electronic preprints and postprints. ArXiv.org is maintained by Cornell University, but does not perform peer-review on submitted preprint articles. Scientific fields covered include mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, physics, electrical engineering, economics, and statistics. 

This database provides access to resources covering the global influence of oil, gas, and other resources. Explore the technological trends and related scientific knowledge surrounding the extraction, refining, transportation, and impact of petroleum products. Petroleum Source provides abstracts for over 100 journals, magazines, and trade publications and full text access to 93 of those. As of 2025, Petroleum Source replaces the discontinued Petroleum Abstracts. 

Gartner is a leading information technology firm that provides access to research, in-depth analysis, and insights on a wide range of technology and business topics, vendors, and products. Use this resource to access the latest industry trends and access case studies, webinars, planning tools, and reports. 

Nature Masterclasses offers on-demand courses and professional development training for researchers, covering the entire research cycle—from designing experiments to advancing your career. A subscription provides access to the entire platform, including all online training courses and resources.

NOTE: You must set up an account while connected to the OU network (on-campus or via VPN) using your OU email. Once created, you can access Nature Masterclasses both on and off campus using your account credentials. Users must connect to the network every six months to keep their account active.

Choya Shinbun was a major Japanese newspaper during the early and mid-Meiji periods. It is best known for its support of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, and it helped shape public opinion during a political era that saw the establishment of the Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Diet. 

Die Transvaler was established as a newspaper to promote the cause of Afrikaner nationalism within the Afrikaner-dominated National Party in South Africa. This newspaper was notorious for its racism and antisemitism and was edited by Hendrik Verwoerd, future prime minister and architect of the apartheid regime. This archive is a valuable resource for scholars of African studies, history, politics, war, genocide, apartheid, and the media.