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  Academic Search Complete

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  • Why search here? This database contains peer-reviewed articles on almost every academic subject.
  • What’s included? Content includes over 5,000 full-text journals and over 200 full-text magazines, as well as full-text monographs and conference proceedings. Additional content includes citations and abstracts for many more journals and other publications.

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  Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

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  Directory of Open Access Journals

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  • Why search here? This open-access database contains a wide array of peer-reviewed journals on almost every subject.
  • What’s included? The DOAJ contains over 20,000 full-text, open-access journals.

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  DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open-access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

  Open—DOAJ is a vital part of the global open-access infrastructure.

  Global—DOAJ is a global community, with team members, ambassadors and volunteers based in 45 countries around the world, speaking 36 languages.

  Trusted—Globally, DOAJ’s criteria have become a gold standard for open-access publishing.

  Our mission

  DOAJ’s mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage, and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.

  DOAJ is committed to being 100% independent and maintaining all of its primary services and metadata as free for everyone.

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  ScienceDirect Open Access

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  • Why search here? This collection of open-access journals covers almost every subject.
  • What’s included? Included are over 1,300 peer-reviewed journals and books published by Elsevier.

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  All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

  Published articles:

  • Are fully peer-reviewed
  • Are immediately free to access and download from ScienceDirect
  • Permitted re-use defined by the author’s choice of Creative Commons user licenses
  • Published with CrossMark® to maintain the publication record

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  Environment Complete

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  • Why search here? This database covers agriculture, biology, ecology, and related disciplines.
  • What’s included? Environment Complete contains over 700 full-text, peer-reviewed journals and over 120 books, as well as citations for many more.

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  Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.

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  GreenFILE

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  • Why search here? GreenFILE contains a wide range of publications on environmental issues, including agriculture.
  • What’s included? The database contains peer-reviewed publications, government documents, and popular works, including citations and abstracts for over a million records and the full text of over 15,000.

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  GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as open-access full text for more than 15,000 records.

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  JSTOR

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  • Why search here? JSTOR is a large, full-text database covering a wide range of academic subjects, including biology, history, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, social science, and social work.
  • What’s included? JSTOR contains the full text of thousands of journals, and its collections are especially strong for older or historic journals.

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  JSTOR offers open-access content available to everyone. We also subscribe to three exclusive JSTOR collections:

  Arts & Sciences Ⅰ

  JSTOR’s first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.

  Arts & Sciences Ⅻ

  This collection complements JSTOR coverage in the social sciences, focusing on disciplines with high usage and broad appeal across all levels of higher education. Journals in education, law, and political science anchor the collection, with other titles in criminology and criminal justice, history, psychology, social work, and sociology. Additional journals cover African studies, Asian studies, and Middle East studies.

  Life Sciences

  This collection provides extensive coverage in the field sciences, with great depth in botany, ecology, and ornithology, along with important titles in general science, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, and public health.

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  Project MUSE Open Access

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  • Why search here? Project MUSE maintains an open-access online repository for full-text eBooks and journals in the humanities.
  • What’s included? The open-access resources on Project MUSE are eclectic, covering all branches of the humanities.

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  Project MUSE offers open-access (OA) books, journals, and, digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers. Through our open-access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

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  Retraction Watch

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  • Why search here? Retraction Watch is a database of peer-reviewed articles that have been retracted because of plagiarism, fraud, or error. It also indexes articles about which “expressions of concern” have been made—that is, concerns that may eventually lead to retractions. This database can assist students in avoiding poor research.
  • What’s included? The database contains thousands of entries. Each entry includes title, place of publication, author, reason for retraction, and other relevant information.

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  The Retraction Watch blog chronicles news stories about prominent retractions.

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  MasterFILE Complete

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  • Why search here? This collection contains a wide selection of popular magazines, reference books, and primary-source documents on many subjects. It is especially useful for researching business and current events.
  • What’s included? The collection includes over 2,300 magazines, 1,100 eBooks, 55,000 primary-source documents, and 75,000 Associated Press videos, as well as an image collection.

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  The MasterFILE Complete is designed specifically for public libraries. This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications, with full-text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary-source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

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  Newspaper Source Plus

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  • Why search here? This database curates content from a wide array of newspapers and radio and television news programs. Newspaper Source Plus focuses on recent and current news rather than on historical newspapers.
  • What’s included? The database contains over 1,100 full-text newspapers and over 100 full-text newswires.

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  Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as Christian Science Monitor, Irish Times (Ireland), San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC), and others. All staff articles are also included from many newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, etc. In addition, Newspaper Source Plus features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts, including ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

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  Newswires

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  • Why search here? This database aggregates syndicated news from the previous thirty days. This database supplements Newspaper Source Plus and Regional Business News Plus.
  • What’s included? Newswires of the last thirty days are included. Most are from the Associated Press.

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  EBSCO’s Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO, and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content by following the link in the record. The index to the full-text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling thirty-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous thirty days of news relating to their search interests.

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  Regional Business News Plus

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  • Why search here? This database contains full-text newspapers and regional business publications.
  • What’s included? Contents include over 1,300 full-text newspapers, 72 regional business publications, and more than two million television and radio news transcripts.

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  Regional Business News Plus includes full-text coverage from several hundred U.S. and international newspapers as well as regional business publications, providing more than 60 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 860,000 television and radio news transcripts.

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  TOPICsearch

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  • Why search here? This database is focused on current events. It will be most useful for classes or writing assignments focused on contemporary issues or news items.
  • What’s included? The database contains over 98,000 full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, biographies, book reviews, government publications, and opinion polls.

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  This current-events database allows researchers to explore social, political, and economic issues; scientific discoveries; and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. Students can use either the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. TOPICsearch contains full text for more than 90,000 articles from nearly 250 diverse sources, including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public-opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

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  Legal Collection

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  • Why search here? Legal Collection contains full-text, peer-reviewed law journals covering a wide array of legal topics.
  • What’s included? The collection includes over 300 full-text journals.

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  Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly, peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for more than 300 of the world’s best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and much more. Full-text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.

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  Legal Information Source

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  • Why search here? Legal Information Source contains legal forms and legal information aimed at the layman rather than the specialist. Topics include family law, property law, and business law, among others.
  • What’s included? The collection includes legal reference books from Nolo and thousands of legal forms.

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  Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. This database will offer the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed ‘how-to’ instructions to independently address a wide range of legal issues, including business law, financial planning, family law, property & real estate, and rights & disputes.

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  Data.gov

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  • Why search here? Data.gov is the online catalog of government-generated datasets, from crime rates to annual rainfall. It aggregates information from all levels and branches of government.
  • What’s included? Over 280,000 datasets are included, covering a vast array of information about the United States.

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  Data.gov is the federal government’s open data site and aims to make government more open and accountable. Opening government data increases citizen participation in government, creates opportunities for economic development, and informs decision-making in both the private and public sectors.

  Data.gov implements The OPEN Government Data Act (Title Ⅱ of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, Public Law 115-435). The OPEN Government Data Act makes Data.gov a requirement in statute, rather than a policy. It requires federal agencies to publish their information online as open data, using standardized, machine-readable data formats, with their metadata included in the Data.gov catalog.

  Data.gov is working with an expanded group of federal agencies to include their datasets in Data.gov as they implement the law. In addition, the law requires that GSA work with the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Government Information Services to establish an online repository of tools, best practices, and schema standards to facilitate the adoption of open data practices across the Federal Government. That repository can be found at resources.data.gov.

  Data.gov was built with open-source software. Anyone, especially local, state, and foreign governments, is welcome to borrow the code behind Data.gov.

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  Govinfo

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  • Why search here? This government website offers free access to all publicly available documents from the three branches of the federal government.
  • What’s included? The site curates multiple searchable collections of government documents available in multiple file formats.

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  GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all.

  GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a federal agency in the legislative branch.

  GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

  GovInfo replaced the FDsys website in December 2018.

  GPO launched GovInfo in February 2016 as a beta website to replace its predecessor, GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). Learn about the transition.

  GovInfo is more than a website.

  In addition to providing an advanced, metadata-powered search experience, GovInfo also includes a content management system and a standards-compliant preservation repository.

  These three components comprise GPO’s world-class system for the comprehensive management of electronic information:

  1. Public access—GPO combines modern search technology with extensive metadata creation to ensure the highest quality search experience. Users can easily access documents for free by searching or browsing the mobile-friendly website.
  2. Content management—GPO securely controls digital content throughout its lifecycle to ensure content integrity and authenticity. This includes the application of digital signatures to PDF files so users can verify documents have not been altered and are the official versions.
  3. Digital preservation—GPO’s ISO 16363-certified Trustworthy Digital Repository ensures content is preserved for future generations despite technical failure, aging of hardware, or technological change.

  What can I find on GovInfo?

  See what’s available, including information on individual publications or collections of content, or view an alphabetical list of collections, publications, other resources, and external partner sites.

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  GPO Advanced Search

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  • Why search here? This database can locate and retrieve data on government publications, with links to the documents’ full text.
  • What’s included? This database contains over 600,000 records for documents from all branches of the federal government.

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  Why select this database?

  • GPO Monthly Catalog contains more than 600,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government.
  • It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
  • Each record contains a bibliographic citation.
  • It is produced by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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  Military & Government Collection

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  • Why search here? This collection contains peer-reviewed journals and magazines related to law enforcement, the military, and government. It is particularly useful for criminal justice, political science, public administration, and social work.
  • What’s included? The database contains almost 300 full-text periodicals and indexing for almost 500.

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  Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color.

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  Data.ok.gov

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  • Why search here? Data.ok.gov is the online catalog of government-generated datasets for the State of Oklahoma, ranging from state employee payrolls to groundwater assessments.
  • What’s included? All publicly available datasets from the Oklahoma State Government are included, as required by law.

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  Data.ok.gov is a service designed to provide Oklahomans with deep access to data and statistics about the activities of Oklahoma’s government. It’s a simple way to explore data about the economy, public health, transportation, the environment, and more, all on one website.

  By posting state government data in raw, machine-readable formats, it [sic] can be reformatted, repurposed, and reused in different ways, allowing the community at large to build custom applications in order to analyze and display the information. The centralized, open-format nature of the database allows anyone to create mashups and visualizations, build applications, conduct analyses, and perform research.

  Browser Requirements

  Please note that Internet Explorer versions 11 and lower do not offer a full experience. Please use an updated browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) for the best experience possible.

  History

  Checkbook.ok.gov was created as a part of H.B. 1086—the Transparency, Accountability and Innovation in Oklahoma State Government 2.0 Act of 2011. The bill was signed into law May 20, 2011, with the goal of providing Oklahomans with unprecedented access to government.

  What kinds of data are available?

  Numerous agencies and entities contribute to checkbook.ok.gov. Some examples of available data include:

  • Payroll information for state employees
  • Crime statistics
  • State expenditures on outside vendors
  • High school and university graduation rates
  • Rates of health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes
  • Lists and maps of state parks
  • Air and water quality assessments

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  Oklahoma Digital Prairie

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  • Why search here? The Digital Prairie is an online resource managed by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. It includes a digital archives and a research service. The archives is a vital resource for studying the history of Oklahoma.
  • What’s included? The research service on the Digital Prairie features databases from EBSCO that are less exhaustive than the resources available at NWOSU. The digital archives, however, contains several unique collections on Oklahoman history.

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  The Oklahoma Department of Libraries has designed Digital Prairie to serve as an electronic library for the people of Oklahoma. It consists of two parts:

  • Research & Discovery Resources
  • State Digital Collections

  Research & Discovery Resources

  Oklahoma Digital Prairie is your gateway to credible online information and reference resources.

  ODL uses federal library funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide all Oklahomans access to these platforms for learning and research. EBSCO resources are provided at no additional charge to schools, libraries, and academic institutions across the state. These research tools provide Oklahomans with millions of full-text magazine and peer-reviewed journal articles, newspaper articles, health information, primary sources, educational tools for students and teachers, and much more.

  View more information about EBSCO and check out Research & Discovery to access these resources.

  State Collections

  Oklahoma Digital Prairie provides visitors unique digital content spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history from the 46^th State. The resource areas found here include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps and audio/visual content. Content ranges from the late 1800s to the present day. Some collections are solely attributed to the work of librarians, archivists, and content managers at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Others, such as the collections providing citizens access to digitized state government publications and forms, are joint projects between ODL, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, and the individual state agencies contributing publications and documents.

  The historical content is mainly obtained from digitizing materials in the archives and documents divisions of the Department of Libraries. Careful consideration has gone into the selection of each and every item for these collections. The criteria for selection were particularly focused on a) materials difficult to access due to their rarity, b) materials with broad interdisciplinary application, and c) materials that are at risk from a preservation viewpoint.

  ODL provides Oklahoma’s citizens access to archived material on state government websites, publications, and other digitally preserved content through the Archive-It service.

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  Gale Literature Resource Center

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  • Why search here? This is the most important database for the English program, and it is also useful for other fields in the humanities.
  • What’s included? This database contains full-text author biographies, literary analyses, and reviews for a wide range of literature, conveniently sorted by resource type.

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  Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. The resource provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.

  Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Gale Literature Resource Center brings together materials that support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.

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  Oxford English Dictionary Online

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  • Why search here? The Oxford English Dictionary is the most authoritative and exhaustive dictionary of the English language, past and present. With the OED, a student can track how the meaning of a word has changed over time. This is especially valuable for students of English.
  • What’s included? The OED includes not only current definitions but historical definitions and usages accompanied by examples from a wide range of literature.

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  The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

  As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, sometimes from as far back as the 11th century, and of the language—traced through 3.5 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts, song lyrics, and social media posts.

  The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Today, the dictionary is in the process of its first full revision. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language.

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  Poetry & Short Story Reference Source

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  • Why search here? This database features full-text poems, short stories, and dramatic works, as well as biographies, critical essays, and eBooks.
  • What’s included? The database contains 400,000 poems, over 50,000 short stories, over 4,000 dramatic works, and over 1,100 eBooks.

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  Poetry & Short Story Reference Center™ is the most comprehensive collection of full-text poetry, short stories, and supplemental content available, offering users a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of poems, as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques. This multifaceted database incorporates information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as proprietary content from EBSCO Publishing, and includes hundreds of thousands of full-text poems and tens of thousands of short stories ranging in period from antiquity to the present. The most studied poems are supplemented with indexing covering subject, poetic forms, poetic themes, techniques, and literary periods, schools, and movements.

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  ArchiveGrid

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  • Why search here? ArchiveGrid brings together information about archives and manuscript collections from all over the country.
  • What’s included? This service aggregates finding aids (i.e., names and short descriptions) of historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other records. Each entry includes any available description, the name and location of the holding institution, and a link to that institution’s catalog record.

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  ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums, and historical societies.

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  Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America

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  • Why search here? BIPNA contains bibliographic entries for an extensive array of archaeological, historical, and contemporary information about the lives and cultures of North America’s aboriginal population.
  • What’s included? Over 350,000 citations are included, ranging from newspapers and magazines to trade publications and academic journals.

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  Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (BIPNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, education, the gaming industry, religion, folklore, economic development, acculturation, mythology, missions, tribal governments, and ethnohistory. BIPNA contains more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia. Dates of coverage for content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, linguists, theologians, and policymakers. BIPNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions and lived experiences of North America’s indigenous peoples.

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  Humanities International Complete

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  • Why search here? This database contains full-text scholarly literature for all branches of the humanities including English, foreign languages, literature, rhetoric, religion, the fine arts, sociology, and history.
  • What’s included? This database includes the full text of over 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and citations and abstracts for over 2,300 journals.

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  Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly, and creative thought. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full-text content.

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  MLA Directory of Periodicals

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  • Why search here? This directory indexes journals and book series on various subjects in the humanities. Entries include submission requirements, circulation information, and contact information. This database is especially useful to researchers looking for journals in which to publish.
  • What’s included? Every journal and book series in the MLA International Bibliography is included.

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  The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Entries cover publication details, contact information, submission requirements and editorial policies, subscription terms, electronic availability and advertising, and useful statistics such as circulation, average number of articles submitted and published, time from submission to decision, and time from decision to publication. All periodicals and book series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography are listed in the directory.

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  MLA International Bibliography

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  • Why search here? This database is a comprehensive index for publications in the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film.
  • What’s included? The database contains over three million records, including citations for journal articles, books, websites, and dissertations.

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  Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20^th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

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  OAIster

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  • Why search here? OAIster combines open-access materials from multiple library catalogs. Most resources discovered through OAIster are instantly accessible.
  • What’s included? The items that can be found through OAIster are eclectic, ranging from journal articles to digitized archival materials.

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  OAIster is a union catalog [i.e., a combined catalog from multiple libraries] of millions of records that represent open-access resources. This catalog was built through harvesting from open-access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI–PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.

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  Religion & Philosophy Collection

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  • Why search here? This collection focuses on religion, biblical studies, philosophy, and the histories of religion and philosophy.
  • What’s included? The database includes over 100 full-text, peer-reviewed journals.

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  The Religion & Philosophy Collection™ is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

  With more than 300 full-text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas listed above, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

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  APA PsycArticles

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  • Why search here? This is our most important database for peer-reviewed literature in psychology.
  • What’s included? APA PsycArticles includes almost 120 full-text journals from the American Psychological Association and related organizations. Most journals’ entire runs are included, from their first issues to the present.

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  APA PsycArticles® from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains content from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. APA PsycArticles® is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.

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  ERIC

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  • Why search here? This is one of the most important databases for the field of education.
  • What’s included? This database contains almost two million records and more than 500,000 full-text documents, including journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Many of the hosted documents are not published anywhere else.

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  ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an online resource to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966. When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.

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  Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

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  • Why search here? This database indexes journals on librarianship and library science.
  • What’s included? Contents include citations and abstracts for over 735 journals, as well as books, research reports, and proceedings.

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  Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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  Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

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  • Why search here? The Mental Measurements Yearbook contains descriptions and reviews of commercially available psychometric tests used in education, business, and psychology. Although potentially useful to all students whose field of research involves mental tests, this database is particularly important for graduate students planning their own research projects.
  • What’s included? The Mental Measurements Yearbook annually produces extensive descriptions of new testing instruments with reviews by subject experts. Tests in Print maintains a bibliography of all testing instruments currently available in English.

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  Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to thousands of contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content-area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing.

  Also produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

  Subscribers are entitled access to the content included in all volumes of the Mental Measurements Yearbook series from Volume 1 to current.

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  Professional Development Collection

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  • Why search here? This is one of the most important databases for the Division of Education. It includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals and educational reports.
  • What’s included? Contents include over 200 full-text journals, 200 educational reports, and citations and abstracts for an additional 750 journals.

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  Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full-text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

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  Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

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  • Why search here? This is one of the most important databases for psychology and is also relevant to nursing, education, the social sciences, and social work.
  • What’s included? The database includes over 300 full-text journals with indexing and abstracts for almost 300 more.

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  This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals, including Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Mental Health, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, and many more.

  Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection also provides particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.

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  SocINDEX with Full Text

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  • Why search here? This is one of our most important databases for social work, sociology, and other social sciences.
  • What’s included? Contents include over 500 peer-reviewed journals and citations and abstracts from over 4,000 journals. Information on monographs and conference papers is also included.

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  SocINDEX with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,300 ‘core’ coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 450 ‘priority’ coverage journals as well as from over 2,900 ‘selective’ coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books / monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided.

  SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence, and many others.

  In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 25,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched-for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author’s areas of expertise and academic / professional focus. All author profiles are updated on a routine basis as new information about each author becomes available. Moreover, profiles continue to be added for additional authors within the database on an ongoing basis.

  SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs and full text for 16,800 conference papers.

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  Sociological Collection

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  • Why search here? This is one of our most important databases for social work, sociology, and other social sciences.
  • What’s included? The collection includes over 200 full-text journals and magazines.

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  The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, and social structure. This database provides complete full text for more than 500 important journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 523 journals in the collection. Examples of titles offered in the Sociological Collection include: Addiction, Adolescence, American Journal of Sociology, Applied Psychology, Bioethics, Child & Family Social Work, Classical Philology, Ethnicity & Health, Feminist Studies, Journal of Social Behavior & Personality, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, and many more. The majority of full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.

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  CINAHL with Full Text

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  • Why search here? This is one of our most important and exhaustive nursing databases.
  • What’s included? It contains 603 full-text journals and citations for over 3,000 more. Books, dissertations, and conference proceedings are also included.

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  CINAHL® with Full Text is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 603 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 305 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source®, or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index—with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, CINAHL® with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

  This database also provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.9 million records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL® with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative / complementary medicine, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,300 journals are also included.

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  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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  • Why search here? Systematic reviews are exhaustive meta-studies that arrive at best medical practices based on available research. This is a vital database for the Division of Nursing.
  • What’s included? Over 4,800 full-text reviews are included. The database updates quarterly, and reviews are sometimes altered when new information becomes available.

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  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full-text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. Now included in the 4,800-plus records are 22 reviews which formerly made up the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews. This database is updated quarterly.

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  MEDLINE

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  • Why search here? This is one of the oldest and most important electronic databases for medicine and nursing.
  • What’s included? It indexes over 5,000 peer-reviewed medical journals.

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  MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre–clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,600 current biomedical journals.

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  PubMed

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  • Why search here? PubMed is a massive database of peer-reviewed journals and books related to medicine, nursing, biology, and the life sciences.
  • What’s included? This is a database of abstracts and citations, though it links to full text when available. Much of its content is duplicated in MEDLINE, Bookshelf, and Pubmed Central.

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  PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health—both globally and personally.

  The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher’s website or PubMed Central (PMC).

  Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  About the Content

  Citations in PubMed primarily stem from the biomedicine and health fields, and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

  PubMed facilitates searching across several NLM literature resources:

  MEDLINE

  MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of citations from journals selected for MEDLINE; articles are indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical, and other metadata.

  PubMed Central (PMC)

  Citations for PubMed Central (PMC) articles make up the second largest component of PubMed.

  PMC is a full-text archive that includes articles from journals reviewed and selected by NLM for archiving (current and historical), as well as individual articles collected for archiving in compliance with funder policies.

  Bookshelf

  The final component of PubMed is citations for books and some individual chapters available on Bookshelf.

  Bookshelf is a full-text archive of books, reports, databases, and other documents related to biomedical, health, and life sciences.

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  PubMed Central

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  • Why search here? This full-text database contains peer-reviewed journals dedicated to medicine, biology, and life science.
  • What’s included? The database contains over nine million peer-reviewed articles and preprints. Articles date from the late 1700s to the present.

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  PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH / NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC is part of the NLM collection, which also includes NLM’s extensive print and licensed electronic journal holdings and supports contemporary biomedical and health care research and practice as well as future scholarship.

  Available to the public online since 2000, PMC was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NLM.

  About the Content

  Since its inception in 2000, PMC has grown from comprising only two journals, PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular Biology of the Cell, to an archive of articles from thousands of journals. In addition, PMC also contains author manuscripts deposited through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS), and preprints collected through the NIH Preprint Pilot.

  The PMC archive contains more than 8 million full-text article records spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research (late 1700s to present). This content includes articles that have been formally published in a scholarly journal, author manuscripts that have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in a journal, and preprint versions of articles that have been made public prior to peer review.

  Content is deposited in the PMC archive through collaborations with publishers, societies, research funders, and international organizations. Our Collections page provides an overview of the collections that result from these content collaborations.

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  Directory of Open Access Books

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  • Why search here? The Directory of Open Access Books contains freely available, peer-reviewed academic eBooks on a variety of subjects.
  • What’s included? The Directory’s content is eclectic and covers a variety of academic subjects.

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  The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open-access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open-access books to DOAB. DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. It runs on the open-source DSpace 6 platform. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility, and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer-reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.

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  eBook Academic Collection

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  • Why search here? This database contains most of the library’s academic eBooks. It is also searchable through our catalog system.
  • What’s included? This collection contains over 240,000 eBooks covering a wide range of academic subjects.

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  This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.

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  eBook Collection

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  • Why search here? This is EBSCO’s eBook portal, which has its own unique interface. This collection is also searchable through our catalog system.
  • What’s included? All of the eBooks we receive from EBSCO are included here.
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  MAS Reference eBook Collection

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  • Why search here? This reference book collection supplements MAS Complete. Although intended for high school students, its contents may be useful in undergraduate classes.
  • What’s included? Over 370 reference books on a wide variety of subjects are included.

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  This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.

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  MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection

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  • Why search here? This reference collection supplements MasterFILE Complete. Although intended for public libraries, its contents may be useful in undergraduate classes.
  • What’s included? Almost 780 reference books on a wide variety of subjects are included.

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  This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.

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  EBSCO Open Dissertations

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  • Why search here? This open-access database can direct you to the full text of theses and doctoral dissertations on almost any subject.
  • What’s included? This collection contains over one and a half million dissertations from 320 universities worldwide.

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  With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.

  This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations, which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933–1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

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  Open Access Theses and Dissertations

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  • Why search here? This database links to full-text graduate theses and doctoral dissertations on every academic subject.
  • What’s included? The database includes over seven million theses and dissertations from over 1,100 institutions.

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  OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.