Academic
Search Complete (ASC) - The world's most valuable and comprehensive
scholary, multi-disciplinary full text database.
This collection offers unmatched coverage of information in many area of academic
study including but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, astronomy,
biology, chemistry, engineering, ethinic & multicultural studies, food
science & technology, mathematics, music, sciences, pharmaceuticals, physics,
psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies,
and zoology.
ArticleFirst
- Index of articles from the contents pages of journals in popular culture,
business, technology, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences and technology.
ATLA
Religion Database with ATLASerials (American Theological Library
Association) - Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews,
and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection
of major religion and theology journals.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Provides
full text of reference and literary works.
Biography
Resource Center - A biographical online reference database that
contains a multitude of subject areas. Also contains some full
text articles.
BioMed
Central - Contains full text to open
access to peer-reviewed biomedical research journals.
Books
in Print - Provides complete, publisher-verified information on
2.5 million bindings for books that are in print, forthcoming, or declared
out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979, as well as more than
500,000 full text reviews.
Business
Source Complete (BSC)) – Provides full
text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing,
management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional non-journal
content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports,
investment research reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Christian
Periodical Index – Indexes selected periodicals covering major
doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.
CINAHL
Plus with Full Text –CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's
most comprehensive source of full text for nursing
& allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals
indexed in CINAHL and having more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back
to 1937.
ClasePeriodica
– CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American
journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA
covers journals specializing in science and technology.
CollegeSource
- Complete cover-to-covercatalog coverage, with original page
format of 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and internation schools.
Communication & Mass Media Complete - Provides
full text to areas related to communication and mass media.
Communication
Studies (Sage) - A full text collection
of mass communication, media studies, and written communication.
CountryWatch
- Provides socio-demographic, cultural, hisorical, 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.
Directory
of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - A collection of free, full
text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals covering all
subjects and languages.
Dissertation
& Theses @ Oral Roberts University - Provides access to the
citations, abstracts, 24 page previews and the full
text in PDF format, when available of dissertations and theses of ORU
graduate students who have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing from
1997 forward. ORU DMIN
only prior to 1996.
Dissertation Abstracts (BY
APPT. 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.
Ebooks
- OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide--NO
full text.
ebrary
- Offers over 26,000 full text academic book
titles from a wide variety of top scholarly and professional publishers.
EBSCO
Animals - Indexes and abstracts full text
records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EBSCOhost
Databases - EBSCO's online full text databases offer access
to full text articles from peer-reviewed journals
published by many of the world's most prestigious academic publishers.
ECO
(Electronic Collections Online) - Indexes and abstracts scholarly
journals from various disciplines.
Education (Sage) - A full-text
collection of methodology, higher education, secondary education, vocational,
measurement & testing, educational psychology.
Education
Research Complete - Provides full-text
for all educational topics from early childhood to higher education, and all
educational specialities. Includes some books and education-related conference
papers.
EJS
E-Journals - Provides for search and access to full
text articles in electronic versions of a limited group of journals
which ORU subscribes to in print.
Encyclopædia
Britannica - Contains over 73,000 articles with maps, photos, drawings
and flags. Includes multimedia articles, biographies, geography, yearbooks
in addition to over 130,000 Internet links.
Encyclopaedia
Judaica, second edition - Contains more than 21,000 articles on
Jewish life, culture, history, and religion from the time of Abraham to the
contemporary State of Israel, from rabbinic commentaries to modern Yiddish
literature. This second edition, has been dramatically expanded and updated
by a global team of subject-matter experts.
ERIC (FirstSearch
or EBSCOhost)
- The Educational Resource Information Center, contains digests along with
references for additional information, citations and abstracts from educational
and education-related journals, and all records from EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction
Service). Available online from EBSCOhost)
in full text from January 1993 onward.
FirstSearch
Databases - Provides online access to databases of bibliographic
and full-text content with search tools that deliver quality content from
WorldCat and other quality, respected databases.
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic
entries searchable by subject or keywords within the entry and covering a
variety of subject areas.
Google
Scholar - Allows searching of scholarly literature across many
disciplines; includes papers, these, books, abstracts, articles, and citations.
GPO
(U.S. Government Publications) - Consists of records published
monthly by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976. Includes references
to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive
departments.
GreenFILE
- Serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues
facing our planet. It indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well
as government documents and provides full-text
for selected titles and searchable cited references.
Haworth Press - A full -text group
of primarily Behavioral Sciences scholarly/professional journals which ORU
purchased in print thus gaining electronic access rights.
Health
& Life Sciences Journal Collection - Provides full
text access to core, peer-reviewed articles published by Elsevier in
the Health and Life sciences, including Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacology, Environmental
and Biological Sciences.
Health Sciences (Sage) - A full text
collection of social studies of health, public policy, health services &
administration, health education, and community/public health nursing.
Health
Source: Consumer Edition - Provides consumer health information
on many health topics including medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine and general health, with articles in
full text.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic - Provides abstracts, indexes and
full text for scholary journals focusing on various
medical disciplines.
Highwire
Press - Provides the largest repository of full
text, high impact, peer-reviewed content from scholarly publishers.
Humanities
International Complete - Comprehensive index and
full text database covering journals, books and other important reference
sources in the humanities.
Intute
E-journals - Provides full text engineering,
mathematics and computing ejournals. Academic journals, trade publications
and society journals are covered.
Kids
Search - Designed specifically for elementary/middle school students
according to their needs and search abilities with an interface that combines
a state-of-the-art search engine with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design.
Library
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - The oldest
continously produced database covering the field of information science, it
Indexes periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings.
Literary
Encyclopedia - Global literary reference work that provides over
4000 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical
topics.
Literary
Index - Master index to every Gale literary series. Combines and
cross-references over 138,000 authors and over 160,000 titles.
Literary
Reference Center - A full-text
database that combines information from major reference works, books ,and
literary journals. Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on
thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
MAS
Ultra (School Edition) - Provides full text
for general interest and current events magazines.
MasterFILE
Premier - Provides full text, indexes
and abstracts for general reference periodicals covering a broad range of
disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, and
general science.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch
or EBSCOhost)
- Created by the National Library of Medicine, it abstracts current biomedical
journals and provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
Middle
Search Plus - Provides full text for
popular magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle to junior
high school students.
Military
& Government - Provides indexes and abstracts in addition to
full text for current news pertaining to all
branches of the military and government.
MLA
Directory of Periodicals - Provides detailed information that includes
editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices
and submission guidelines of journals.
MLA
International Bibliography - Provides a bibliography of journal
articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association.
netLibrary
- A full text collection of over 8,800 eBooks
of published works in all disciplines that have been converted into digital
format for electronic distribution.
New
Testament Abstracts - Provides indexes and abstracts for journal
articles, and multi-author works. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology,
biblical theology, and philology.
NewsBank-Access
World News (Newspaper) - Provides full text
information and perspectives from both domestic and international sources.
NewsBank-America's News Magazine - Provides full
text coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle,
entertainment, sports, science and technology from selected, familiar news
magazines.
Newspaper
Source (Newspaper) - Provides selected full
text for many national (U.S.) and international newspapers, television
& radio news transcripts, and regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Old
Testament Abstracts - Provides indexes and abstracts for journal
articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament
studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology,
philology and much more.
OVID
Nursing Collection - Provides full text
of selected premier nursing journals as well as access to tables of contents,
bibliographic citations, abstracts, and references of hundreds of scientific,
technical, and medical journals bibliographic citations, references, and abstracts
for premier nursing journals.
Oxford
Music Online - Provides a virtual music library that covers muscial
subjects of all kinds. Included is The Oxford Companion to Music and
The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
PapersFirst
- Provides an index to individual papers presented at every congress, symposium,
exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply
Centre.
Physical
Sciences Journal Collection - Provides full
text access to core, peer-reviewed articles published by Elsevier in
Physical Sciences, including chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science,
earth and planetary sciences, energy, engineering, materials science, mathematics,
physics and astronomy.
Pre-CINAHL
- Provides a CINAHL companion database of current awareness for new journal
articles. A rotating file of limited bibliographic records are available only
while they are being assigned additional indexing, once completed, they are
moved to CINAHL.
Primary
Search - Provides full text for more
many popular magazines for elementary school research.
Proceedings
- Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop
and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. It is
a companion piece to PapersFirst.
Professional
Development - Provides a highly specialized collection of full
text journals, designed for professional educators.
Project
Gutenberg - Provides full text of
thousands of books.
ProQuest General Periodicals Ondisc
- Covers general reference, business, and health areas of popular magazines,
important journals, and key business publications. For most titles, coverage
is from 1988-2001 for full page images, some
backfiles from 1986-. CD-ROM only.
PsycARTICLES
- Provides full text articles on current issues
in psychology from journals published by the American Psychological Association
and allied organizations.
Psychology
(Sage) - A full text collection of applied
psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive
psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology.
PsycINFO
- Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books,
dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology
PubMed
Central - Provides full text access
to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical
and life sciences journal literature.
Regional
Business News - Provides comprehensive full
text coverage of regional business publications, which includes journals,
newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the
United States.
RIM® Online (Research in Ministry) - Indexes DMin and DMiss projects
from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological
Schools in the United States and Canada.
Sage
Databases - Provides full text [PDF]
access to 5 comprehensive databases of journals, book reviews, and editorials,
with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers.
Scirus
- Provides a scientific research tool for journal content, scientists'
homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional
repository and website information.
Searchasaurus
- Provides a colorful, animated interface for three elementary and middle
school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and BookSource: Nonfiction).
Serials
Directory - Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate
bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular
serials.
SIRS
Discoverer - Contains full text, indexed
articles and graphics from magazines, newspapers and U.S. Government documents
on numerous subject areas. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia,
Country Facts, World Almanac for Kids.
Social
& Behavioral Sciences Journal Collection - Provides full
text access to core, peer-reviewed articles published by Elsevier in
the social sciences, including psychology, business & management and education.
Social
Work Abstracts - Provides indexing and abstracts toscholarly and
professional journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including
theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Sociology
(Sage) - A full-text collection
of contemporary sociology, comparative sociology, and consumer culture.
Special
Issues - Provides full text
for many regularly published, special editorial issues usually having an industry
or company focus. It tracks the issue, how long it has been produced and the
content.
Standard
& Poor's NetAdvantage - Provides full text
access to Standard & Poor's industry-leading research on companies, industries,
stocks, bonds, funds, and the economy. Incorporates private company information
on companies that are not publicly traded.
Student
Research Center - Provides students in secondary schools with
the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that
they seek from their EBSCO databases.
Teacher
Reference Center - Provides indexing and abstracts for many
of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional
educators.
Theological
Journals Search - Provides search capabilities for religion
journals related to scripture studies, systematic theology, practical ministries,
and cognate disciplines for which full text is
freely available on the internet. Compiled by ORU librarian.
TOPICsearch
- Provides a current events database that explores social, political &
economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed
in today's classrooms. It contains full text
of articles, diverse sources, and periodicals.
Wall
Street Journal (Newspaper) - Provides full
text coverage of the Eastern Edition from 1984-present.
WorldAlmanac
- Provides a fundamental reference source with access to arts & entertainment,
people in the news, U.S. cities/states, nations of the world, etc.
WorldCat
- Contains millions of bibliographic records cataloged by OCLC member libraries,
and indicates libraries where materials are held.
WorldCat
Dissertations - Provides access to bibliographic records of dissertations
and theses available in OCLC member libraries.
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