Digital Content for the OU Community
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Aristoteles Latinus This link opens in a new window
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle's works.
Note: To access this resource, choose “IP Authentication” on the resource platform.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1473-1700
Early English Books Online contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Early European Books This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1475-1701
Provides access to high-resolution facsimile images of rare printed sources from the origin of printing through the seventeenth century. Early European Books contains significant works by Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Erasmus, Kepler, Luther and Spinoza, alongside ephemeral works such as pamphlets and almanacs. The works encompass all the major fields of human endeavour, including science, medicine, philosophy, theology, literature, history, political science, travel, and exploration.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Shared 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 downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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JSTOR Open Community Collections This link opens in a new window
JSTOR's Open Community Collections provide open access to hundreds of important and rare collections from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world. Resources include photographs, vintage posters, maps, illustrations, videos, manuscripts, diaries, and more.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
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Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education.
Note: Kanopy video access is mediated. Any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is enabled for class use with instructor approval.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Library of Latin Texts (Series A and B) This link opens in a new window
The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis.
Note: To access this resource, choose "IP recognition" on the resource platform.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Department of Classics and Letters.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new window
Access the electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Access journals covering the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Shakespeare's Globe on Screen I and II This link opens in a new window
Shakespeare's Globe on Screen I (2008-2015) and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen II (2016-2018) include 30 landmark productions from the theater's 2008-2018 seasons. Opened in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, the videos in this collection feature performances from leading actors including Stephen Fry, Gemma Arterton, and Mark Rylance. Highlights include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Henry IV, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Shakespeare in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming videos of BBC Shakespeare plays on the Ambrose Digital website.
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
A digitized collection of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
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Translated Texts for Historians E-Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide variety of texts from 300-800 AD. Resources are translated from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish and include notes on content, interpretation, and debates. University of Oklahoma Libraries has access to volumes published through July 2023.
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Trismegistos This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary database of papyrological and epigraphic resources on Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. Includes texts in a variety of languages from Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, as well as a database of people and place names found in Greco-Roman Egypt.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Department of Classics and Letters.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
On the Open Web
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Biblioteca ItalianaA digital library of texts representative of Italian culture and literature from the medieval era to the 9th century.
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EAGLE Inscriptions Search EngineThe main gateway into the EAGLE’s massive epigraphic database.
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Open Greek and Latin ProjectOngoing. The project aims at providing at least one version for all Greek and Latin sources produced during antiquity (through c. 600 CE) and a growing collection from the vast body of post-classical Greek and Latin that still survives.
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Perseus Digital LibraryDigital library of work covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
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Pleiades Atlas of the Ancient WorldA community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
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Open Access Digital Theological LibraryThe OADTL curates open access/public domain books, databases, journals, and research aids catalogued in WorldCat and makes them available for basic or advanced cross-searching.