Digital Content for the OU Community
Available from on or off campus to current students, faculty and staff of OU.
- HathiTrust Digital LibraryShared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit viewing or downloading of books that are still under copyright. NOTE: The individual titles in this database are only listed in Discover not the Local Catalog.
- JSTOR (incorporates ARTstor)Full text of many core journals in various disciplines. For some titles, the most recent issues will not be available full text until after an embargo period.
- Kanopy Streaming VideoWatch feature and educational films online, on any device. International content, including the Criterion Collection. Effective October 1, 2018, Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not licensed for use prior to that date will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.
- New World Cinema: Independent Features and ShortsStreaming full-length feature films from leading independent distributors and award-winning short films.
- Project MuseFull text of scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
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- Visualising ChinaAllows users to explore and enhance more than 8000 digitized images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. It allows access to many previously unseen albums, envelopes and private collections and also major collections such as Historical Photographs of China, the Sir Robert Hart Collection and Joseph Needham's Photographs of Wartime China.
- East Asia Image CollectionArchive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria , and Indonesia are included.
- MIT Global ShakespearesA collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.
- Project GutenbergFree e-books from the public domain.