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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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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
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Career Guidance Foundation

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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
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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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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
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in all fields of religion; includes a collection of full-text major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Theology
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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
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text for more than 560 nursing & allied health journals as well as cover-to-cover indexing for more than 400 journals. CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing & Health
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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 Includes indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals; based on the Encyclopedia of Animals. EBSCO Animals
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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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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
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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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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 Provides over tens of thousands of encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords and covering a variety of subject areas; updated annually. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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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 consumer health information on such topics as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition, children's health, women's health, etc.; provides full text of health-related journals, pamphlets, reference books, and reports. Health Source: Consumer Edition
Nursing & Health
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides full text, abstracts, and indexing of health and medical related scholarly journals. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Nursing & Health
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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
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only A search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students. Kids Search
Education
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Free on the Web Indexes and abstracts periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings related to librarianship, online information retrieval, information management and more. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library
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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
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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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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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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides citations and abstracts of current biomedical journals; corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index; created by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE
Nursing & Health
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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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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text for current news pertaining to the military and government. Military & Government Collection
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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
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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
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, reviews, and software related to the New Testament and its historical milieu; produced by ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. New Testament Abstracts
Theology
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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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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies; produced by ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. Old Testament Abstracts
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Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Provides current awareness for new journal articles related to nursing and allied health; consists of a rotating file of bibliographic records available only while being assigned additional indexing which, upon completion, are transferred to CINAHL. Pre-CINAHL
Nursing & Health
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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 Provides a collection of full text journals, designed for professional educators Professional Development Collection
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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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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 Provides the full text of journals and reference works related to the health & life science Health & Life Sciences Journal Collection
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Elsevier (ScienceDirect)ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials
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
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Elsevier (ScienceDirect) ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials
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Behavioral Sciences
Elsevier (ScienceDirect) ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials
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Elsevier ScienceDirect User Guides and Tutorials

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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
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Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica Help Page

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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
Multidisciplinary
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
Multidisciplinary
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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
Multidisciplinary
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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
Multidisciplinary
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
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 Provides online access to primarily bibliographic databases such as ArticleFirst and WorldCat. FirstSearch Databases - All
Multidisciplinary
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
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
Multidisciplinary
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Includes citations and abstracts of current biomedical journals; corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index; created by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE
Nursing & Health
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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
Multidisciplinary
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
Available to current ORU faculty, staff and students only Supplies indexing of published conference proceedings; a companion piece to PapersFirst. Proceedings
Multidisciplinary
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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
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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
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FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page
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
FirstSearch FirstSearch Help Page

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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
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Available in the physical library only 108 years of National Geographic magazine from 1888-1995. National Geographic on CD-ROM
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National Geographic Society

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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