Databases for K-12 Level Sources
- Children's Literature Comprehensive DatabaseOver 400,000 reviews and related information about children's literature. Use this database to locate information on children's and young adult books for K-12 readers.
- MAS CompleteContains full text for hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books, plus biographies, primary source documents and an image collection.
This resource is intended for HIGH SCHOOL students. - Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In PrintMental Measurements Yearbook provides information and reviews about standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. It includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date, and test author.
- Middle Search PlusIndexes and abstracts general reference, health and science magazines. Materials indexes include charts, tables, graphs, pamphlets, journal articles, Magill Book Reviews, Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia, the CIA World Factbook, Essential Documents in American History, and The Encyclopedia of Animals. Some full text available.
This resource is intended for MIDDLE SCHOOL students. - Primary SearchMultidisciplinary database of materials appropriate for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms. Materials indexed include magazines, pamphlets, The World Almanac of the U.S.A, The World Almanac for Kids, and The Encyclopedia of Animals. Some full text available.
This resource is intended for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students. - Something About the AuthorSomething About the Author examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. This series spotlights more than 12,000 individuals in entries that typically cover personal life, career, writings, adaptations, and additional sources.
Video
- Kanopy Streaming VideoProvides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education.
Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses GlobalIndexes U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 (abstracts since 1980) and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716; includes some dissertations from Canada, and Europe, as well as some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Find most OU dissertations full text through summer 2013; after that date, find OU dissertations in SHAREOK. Most dissertations from other institutions, 1997 to present, are full text. To obtain pre-1997 dissertations, use the interlibrary loan request form.
- SHAREOKSHAREOK is an open-access institutional repository for the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. It includes some theses, dissertations, and faculty publications.
NOTE: Many universities, including OU, have started archiving dissertations in their own institutional repositories rather than through Dissertation Abstracts. Find most OU dissertations via SHAREOK. If dissertations from other universities are not available in Dissertation Abstracts, check Google Scholar.