Online Library Databases

AccessScience: Contains science and technology reference sources, full-text journal articles on numerous science subjects, scientist biographies, information about science in the news, Nobel prizes, and other resources related to science.

Annals of American History
This database explores the rich and varied history of America through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images and multimedia.

BNA Human Resources Library: Contains a wealth of information related to personnel management, labor relations, wages and hours law, federal regulations, fair employment law, and international HR. (Please contact the Library for the password and ID for this database.)

Britannica Online: Contains 73,000 full-text articles with basic and in-depth encyclopedia entries on a variety of subjects, a timeline, a world atlas, and a dictionary.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works: A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 34,600 pages of material, including more than 9,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 11,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 13,000 pages of secondary reference material

CQ RESEARCHER
This database is available to students only at their specific campus locations.
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. CQ can be used to prepare for a debate, or become a quick expert on a topic, each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

EBSCOHost: Contains abstracts, as well as full-text entries, for journals and magazine articles. Major databases include Academic Search Elite (coverage for most academic areas), PsychArticles, SocINDEX, Regional Business News, and Business Source Elite (includes company records from Dun and Bradstreet).

First Search: Available to students at Kansas campuses only; it has been made available to Kansas libraries through a grant from the Kansas State Library. The database contains abstracts and full-text entries for journals and magazines on a wide range of topics in 13 databases and a catalog of books, web resources and other materials worldwide.

InfoTrac: This database is available to Kansas libraries through a grant from the Kansas State Library. The database contains abstracts and full-text entries for journals and magazines. Databases include Expanded Academic, ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, Informe, Computer Database, Health Reference Center, National Newspaper Index, Business and Company Resource Center, the Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Infotrac OneFile.

Kansas State Library Databases: Databases provided by the state of Kansas. On the Kansas State Library Page, please click on the "Explore our Resources" link.

Kansas Library Catalog: A catalog listing the book and periodical title holdings of many Kansas libraries, academic, public, and school.

Kansas Virtual Library: Please use your Kansas Library Card to log onto The Kansas Virtual Library. This is a new library database of digital audiobooks and music that can be downloaded to your computer or your ipod. If you have a Kansas City Kansas Library or Johnson County Library Card you may use it to access online materials as well.

LexisNexis Academic Universe: Contains full-text information on a variety of subject databases in the areas of business, medicine, and law. This database also contains a substantial newspaper database that searches specialized news sources such as news transcripts, wires, and legal and university newspaper sources. Access from campus location | Access from non-campus location (Students please use the OU student portal)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
The LISTA database is a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 15. After Login, select MMYB and go to main search page.

Oxford Reference Database
Oxford is a reference tool provides shelves of online reference books in a variety of different subjects.
Please Note: This database is available at our on-campus location only and is not available from off-campus locations.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe: A reference database for children in grades 1 through 9, with full-text articles and graphics. This database is useful to students enrolled in education courses.

Stat-USA This database provides current and historical economic, financial and trade-related information in the State of the Nation, GLOBUS Global Business Opportunities) and NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) Databases. Locate the CPI, GDP, industry reports, the employment rate, daily trade leads, Country Commercial Guides, Market Research Reports, and more in GLOBUS and NTDB.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

Value Line includes extensive financial and statistical data gathered by Value Line analysts. Products range from packaged databases covering stocks and mutual funds to Windows® based software products which allow clients to tailor their information needs exactly. Value Line's information services provide complete research and analysis on all the major companies that represent the bulk of the trading volume of North American exchanges, and ADRs of the largest Asian and European companies.

Worldcat
OCLC's free, open worldcat program allows public access to book, media and websites across the libraries of the world.