E-Resources for General

This database is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Provides access to materials in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Full text is available.

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

Contains full text for hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books, plus biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection.

Indexes and abstracts journals covering a wide variety of topics, including business, consumer health, culture, education, and general science. Also includes an image gallery, eBooks, and primary source documents. Some full text is available.

Indexes and abstracts general reference, health, and science magazines. Materials indexed include charts, tables, graphs, pamphlets, journal articles, Magill Book Reviews, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, and The Encyclopedia of Animals. Some full text is available.

Published since 1925, the New Yorker is one of the oldest American weekly magazines featuring journalism, political and cultural commentary, essays, fiction, poetry, and humor.

Provides full text to over 500 U.S. newspapers and over 600 international newspapers. Real time news updates are also available through newswires such as CNN Newswire, PR Newswire, and CNN. This database also provides access to over 1.6 million radio and television transcripts.

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. 

Provides access to a union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources including digitized books and articles, born digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets.

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.

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.

Contains full text to some Oxford books in the areas of biology, psychology, social work, linguistics, economics and finance, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, religion, and public health.

Access conference papers from every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

Multidisciplinary database of materials appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. Materials indexed include magazines, pamphlets, The World Almanac of the U.S.A, The World Almanac for Kids, and The Encyclopedia of Animals. Some full text is available.

Access conference proceedings from every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

A collection of databases available from ProQuest on various subjects, including business, economics, history, biology, newspapers, art, politics, philosophy, earth and atmospheric sciences, and psychology.

PsycBooks provides access to over 4,600 scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association. Titles include historical and classic works from the behavioral and social sciences. Updated monthly, this collection also includes all volumes of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series, APA Classic books, the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology, and hard-to-find and out-of-print books dating back to the 1600s.

This collection includes over 300 training videos in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, social work, counseling, and addiction treatment. Videos include interviews with expert practitioners, therapy sessions, clinical demonstrations, nonverbal observation, and in-depth commentaries. A variety of approaches are covered, including art therapy, couples therapy, emotionally focused therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, positive psychology, REBT, school counseling, motivational interviewing, treatment planning, family systems, and more. 

This database, created by the American Psychological Association, contains over 900 streaming videos and covers over 245 topics and 100 therapy approaches, including integrated behavioral healthcare, cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. These videos are geared toward graduates and post-graduates and allow for observing candid, unscripted psychotherapy sessions featuring over 145 renowned therapists.

SAGE Research Methods is a cross-disciplinary research methods tool that guides users through every step of the research process using different research methods (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods). Resources include eBooks, reference works, journal articles, instructional videos, and project planning tools. SRM also provides information on other aspects of research such as writing a research question, gathering and analyzing data, applying for grant funding, preparing a literature review, working with teams, and publishing findings. SRM includes the complete Little Green Book Series of Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences and the Little Blue Book Series of Qualitative Research.