General Science
- Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database covering sciences, social science, and humanities. - Natural Science Collection
Searches multiple databases in the following science areas: Agricultural, aquatic, atmospheric, biological, earth and environmental. - JSTOR
Provides access to journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics. It is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Full text available. - Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search for literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. However, it indexes these items automatically and you should take care to verify the scholarly nature of items you find. Additionally, sometimes the OU Article Linker does not work correctly from Google Scholar results; in those cases take the title, journal, or authors and search in a database from the Libraries website.
- FirstSearch CollectionA list of databases available from FirstSearch on various subjects, including AnthropologyPlus, ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, Ebooks, ECO (Electronic Collections Online), ERIC, GEOBASE, GPO, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Medline, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, World Almanac, WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations.
- Engineering Village
Engineering database - searches Compendex, Inspec, and GEOBASE. Click "Check Access" then click on "sign in" via your institution. Type in "University of Oklahoma" (your email will not work) then select University of Oklahoma. This will prompt you to log in with your 4x4. Then click "continue without signing in". It's complicated but it's worth it! - Dissertation AbstractsU.S. doctoral dissertations since 1861. Includes some international dissertations and US theses. 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.
General Databases
These more general searches can cover any topic and some also include newspaper articles, patents, and popular magazine articles.
- ABI/INFORM CompleteThis multidisciplinary database indexes several types of publications (scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and more) covering social sciences, business, law, and more.
- Academic Search PremierThis multidisciplinary database indexes several types of publications (scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and more) covering social sciences, humanities, education, and more.
- Google's Advanced SearchUse the "site or domain" field to specify that you want to see what's available on .edu or .gov websites.
Environmental Sustainability
- Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)Collection of databases that cover ecology, aquatic sciences, pollution, toxicology, and more environmentally targeted resources.
- GreenFILEProvides access to scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, related to the the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
- Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesJournal covering topics in the environment and resources.
Biomedical Science
- PubMedU.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) database of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- MedlineIndex and abstracts to journals published internationally, covering medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other health fields. This link goes to the Ebscohost interface; searches via Ovid and FirstSearch are also available via libraries.ou.edu/eresources.
- PsycTESTSProvides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test, its development and administration.
- SciFinder-n
1907 - present (with some 19th century material).
Focused on chemistry, but chemistry is defined broadly, so can be useful for biology, physics, engineering, astronomy, etc. Users must register.
Web of Science Help
This video demos basis Web of Science usage. However, we do not have access to their Kopernio plugin to access pdfs. Please use the "OU Article Linker" instead.
JSTOR Tutorials and Help
- JSTOR tutorialsVideo and text guides on how to use JSTOR