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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. Also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Indexes articles listed in the contents pages of journals in popular culture, business, technology, science, medicine, humanities, and social sciences. ArticleFirst
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Indexes Latin American journals, including CLASE which indexes journals in the sciences and humanities and PERIODICA which indexes journals in science and technology. ClasePeriodica
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Free on the Web Provides access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Free on the Web
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains records of all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries; no full text. Ebooks
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Offers tens of thousands of full-text academic books from of scholarly and professional publishers. ebrary
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ebrary ebrary Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only EBSCO's databases offer indexing and full text of thousands of journals and magazines. EBSCOhost Databases - All
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Indexes and abstracts scholarly journals from various disciplines; lets you limit your search to journals to which your library subscribes; no full text available. ECO-Electronic Collections Online
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Indexes thousands of electronic journals for which full text articles are available when an ORU Library subscription is in place. EJS E-Journals
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides online access to primarily bibliographic databases such as ArticleFirst and WorldCat. FirstSearch Databases - All
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Free on the Web Acts as an index/catalog for thousands of books made available from publishers, authors, and libraries. Some books are available for browsing full-text, some have a limited preview, some have a 'snippet' view, and some have no preview. Some of the full-text books also allow searching within the book. Google Book Search Multidisciplinary
Free on the Web Google Book Search Support Center
Free on the Web Allows searching scholarly literature across many disciplines; includes papers, theses, books, abstracts, articles, and citations. Google Scholar
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Free on the Web Google Scholar Help Page
Free on the Web A multidisciplinary collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing for U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments. GPO-U.S.Government Publications
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Includes the full text of 25+ journals related to various fields including sociology, nursing, theology, library, and business. Haworth Press Journals
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Haworth Press
Free on the Web Hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world Highwire Press
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Free on the Web
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text of general interest and current events magazines; includes pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and an image collection; designed for high school libraries. MAS Ultra - School Edition
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexes, abstracts, and full text of general periodicals, covering a broad range of disciplines; includes full text of hundreds of reference books as well as book reviews, biographies, and images; designed for public libraries. MasterFILE Premier
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text for popular magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students. Middle Search Plus
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Includes the full text of newspapers of the world and the United States; includes The New York Times, The Oklahoman, and Tulsa World. NewsBank: Access World News
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NewsBank Access World News PowerPoint Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text coverage of business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports from familiar news magazines such as Fortune, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated. NewsBank: America's News Magazines
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NewsBank
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A full text collection of nearly 9,000 eBooks of published works in all disciplines that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. netLibrary
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netLibrary netLibrary Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains selected full text of many U.S. and international newspapers, television & radio news transcripts, and regional (U.S.) newspapers. Newspaper Source
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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing of papers presented at conferences reported to The British Library Document Supply Centre . PapersFirst
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text for popular magazines for elementary school research. Primary Search
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Supplies indexing of published conference proceedings; a companion piece to PapersFirst. Proceedings
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Free on the Web Provides the full text of thousands of books. Project Gutenberg
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Free on the Web
Available in the physical library only Periodical abstracts electronic database consists of abstracts of 1600 indexed journal titles from 1986 plus last 6 months of Wall street journal and New York times ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Ondisc
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ProQuest (UMI)
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text access to 5 comprehensive databases of journals, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers Sage Databases - All
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Sage (CSA) Links to Sage Tutorials and Help Pages
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides the full text of journals and reference works related to the health & life sciences, the physical sciences, and the social & behavioral sciences ScienceDirect Databases - All
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Elsevier ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains full text, indexed articles and graphics from magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents on numerous subject areas SIRS Discoverer
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SIRS SIRS Tutorial

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Free on the Web Contains full text reference and literary works. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Reference
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides comprehensive biographical information Biography Resource Center
Reference
Thomson Gale Biography Resource Center Help Pages
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides publisher-verified information on books, audio-books, and videos that are in print, forthcoming, or out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979; includes publisher information, author bios, full-text reviews, and bestseller and award lists Books in Print
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Bowker Quick Guide to Books in Print
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides access to college catalogs from 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. CollegeSource
Reference
Career Guidance Foundation
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A comprehensive source of socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and investment information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the world's 192 countries and many non-sovereign nations. CountryWatch
Reference
CountryWatch CountryWatch User Guide
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Includes indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals; based on the Encyclopedia of Animals. EBSCO Animals
Reference
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains summary and in-depth articles on virtually every branch of human knowledge; includes biographies, maps, photos, drawings, flags, audio and video clips, and Web sites. Encyclopædia Britannica
Reference
Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides over tens of thousands of encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keyword and covering a variety of subject areas; updated annually. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Reference
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides detailed information about the journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography; includes editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines. MLA Directory of Periodicals
Reference
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides access to accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for periodicals Serials Directory
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides current events information; allows exploration of social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics; contains full text of articles from diverse sources including periodicals TOPICsearch
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Serves as a general reference source; includes The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, The World Almanac Knowledge Source, and Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia WorldAlmanac
Reference
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains millions of bibliographic records from OCLC member libraries; indicates libraries where materials are held; may be used to identify books for interlibrary loan WorldCat
Reference
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only See also: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2d ed.
Theology
Thomson Gale Thomson Gale Help Pages
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English & Modern Languages
Literary Dictionary Company Literary Encyclopedia
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English & Modern Languages
EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center Help Page
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Business
McGraw-Hill Advanced Search Tutorial

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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations PsycARTICLES
Behavioral Sciences
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A full-text collection of applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology Psychology
Behavioral Sciences
Sage (CSA) Links to Sage Tutorials and Help Pages
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, in the field of psychology PsycINFO
Behavioral Sciences
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides the full text of journals and reference works related to the social & behavioral sciences Social & Behavioural Sciences Journal Collection
Behavioral Sciences
Elsevier (ScienceDirect) ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Social Work Abstracts
Behavioral Sciences
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A full-text collection of contemporary sociology, comparative sociology, and consumer culture Sociology
Behavioral Sciences
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. Besides providing full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, it also provides full text, non-journal content including financial data, books, monographs, conference proceedings, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles and more. Business Source Complete
Business
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides the full text of regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas of the United States Regional Business News
Business
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only An online source of comprehensive business and investment information for librarians, universities and other institutional professionals. Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Business
McGraw-Hill Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text coverage of the Eastern Edition from 1984-present Wall Street Journal
Business
ProQuest (UMI)ProQuest Search Tips

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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing and full text of journals related to communication and mass media; includes author profiles. Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication
Arts
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text of a collection of journals related to communication studies. Communication Studies
Communication Arts
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only View full text for ORU dissertations and theses published after 1996, with ORU D.Min. research projects only prior to 1996. Dissertations & Theses@Oral Roberts University
Dissertations
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Available in the physical library only Covers dissertations on all academic topics at accredited institutions since 1861, selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Dissertation Abstracts - by appt. only
Dissertations
ProQuest (UMI)
Free on the Web A freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. RIM® Online (Research in Ministry)
Dissertations
Free on the Web
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides access to bibliographic records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries; many are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution; some are available through interlibrary loan WorldCatDissertations
Dissertations
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A full-text collection of methodology, higher education, secondary education, vocational, measurement & testing, educational psychology Education
Education
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only The definitive online resource for education research offering the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete
Education
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). ERIC - Education Database
Education
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). ERIC - Education Database
Education
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students. Kids Search
Education
EBSCOhost KidsSearch Interface Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides a collection of full text journals, designed for professional educators Professional Development Collection
Education
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides a kid-friendly interface to Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and Pictures, an image collection. Searchasaurus
Education
EBSCOhost Searchasaurus Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information they seek from their EBSCO databases. Student Research Center
Education
EBSCOhost Student Research Center Interface Tutorial
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators Teacher Reference Center
Education
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Free on the Web Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text engineering, mathematics and computing ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, trade publications and society journals are covered. Intute E-journals
Engineering, Math & Computer Science
Free on the Web
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides the full text of journals and reference works related to the physical sciences including engineering, chemistry, physics, earth science, mathematics, and computer science Physical Sciences Journal Collection
Engineering/Sciences
Elsevier (ScienceDirect) ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials

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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A state-of-the-art reference work focused on literature originally written in English or translated into English. Entries are authoritative summaries written by over 1500 scholars and experts and edited by a distinguished scholarly board. Literary Encyclopedia
English & Modern Languages
Literary Dictionary Company Literary Encyclopedia
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing for the entire Gale literary series, including cross-references for authors and titles; NO full text. Literary Index
English & Modern Languages
Thomson Gale Literary Index Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies, 420+ literary journals, 569,000+ book reviews, 57,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 4,700 author interviews, 7,100+ classic texts and more. Literary Reference Center
English & Modern Languages
EBSCOhost Literary Reference Center Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing of journal articles, books and dissertations relating to literature, language, and the dramatic arts; produced by the Modern Language Association. MLA International Bibliography
English & Modern Languages
EBSCOhost Advanced Search Tutorial

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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only 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 (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content. Humanities International Complete
History, Humanities
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text for current news pertaining to the military and government.