Research Guides
Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies with access to more than 7,000 peer reviewed journals and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.
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NOTE: Includes popular periodicals like Newsweek, Time, U.S. News and World Report. To search those publications click here and add your keywords and specific time period.
Coverage: 1691-1877
Presents over 7,600 titles ranging from early works imported by the colonists to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection is grouped in five chronological series and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.
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Coverage: 1681-1865
Presents over 6,500 titles dating from 1681 through 1865, ranging from early works imported by the colonists to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection is grouped in five chronological series and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.
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Coverage: 1741-1943
Provides access to over 1,500 periodicals published between 1741 and 1943, including special interest and general magazines, journals, and other historically significant periodicals.
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This open access collection includes periodicals published by Black Americans during the early 1900s to the 1980s. Publications include those from women's organizations, religious groups, and labor organizations.
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Coverage: 1900-present
Black Studies Center consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black studies, and historic indexes. This resource includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database, the Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as The Chicago Defender.
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Coverage: 1681-1939
Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
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Coverage: 19th century
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an index with more than 20 million records for books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications, reference material, and archival collections. This database includes The Wellesley Index for Victorian Periodicals, The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, and American Periodicals Series.
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Coverage: 1843-2020
Provides full text access to over 150 years of The Economist, a premier weekly publication providing timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive appraisal of global news, spanning centuries and continents.
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Coverage: 1800-1906
This comprehensive database is a compilation of scholarly indexes to books, journals, newspapers, art images, and other documents published before 1930 in a range of disciplines, including history of science, engineering, religion, visual arts, law, humanities, social sciences, and the physical sciences. Resources include Index to Periodicals (1890-1906), The Psychological Index (1894-1905), Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), and Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, (1800-1900).
Coverage: 1685-1835
Access rare eighteenth century newspapers and periodicals from around the world. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include social customs, world events, colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
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Coverage: 1880-present
Provides access to full runs of 26 major entertainment trade and consumer magazines, including Broadcasting, Billboard, Melody Maker, The Stage, and Variety.
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Coverage: 1830-1898
Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts.
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Coverage: 1857-1912
Full text of Harper's Weekly, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction era periodical. HarpWeek provides access to illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and advertisements. Coverage includes the Civil War Era (1857-1865), Reconstruction (1866-1877), and Gilded Age (1878-1912).
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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.
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NOTE: The individual titles in this database are only listed in Discover not the Local Catalog.Coverage: 1907-1984
This bibliographic database is an index of journal articles and book reviews covering the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Subjects include anthropology, art, communication, law, music, sociology, gender studies, environmental studies, performing arts, political science, urban studies, international relations, criminal justice, and more.
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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes access to the Black American Series and the Native American Series.
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Coverage: 1922-
Indexes and abstracts journals covering a wide variety of topics, including business, consumer health, culture, education, and general science. Also includes an image gallery, eBooks, and primary source documents. Some full text is available.
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Coverage: 1963-present
New York Review Of Books publishes articles, essays, and reviews of books on a variety of subjects, including literature, culture, the arts, economics, science, and current affairs.
Coverage: 1800-1900
Provides access to periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era.
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Coverage: 1890-1982
Multidisciplinary database covering issues related to cultural history. This resource indexes more than 550 magazines. Some full text is available.
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Includes popular periodicals like Newsweek, Time, U.S. News and World Report. To search those publications click here and add your keywords and specific time period. NOTE: Many the periodicals in this database will NOT be available full text. See this page for locations of popular periodicals or search the Local Catalog for the title of the periodical.The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
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Coverage: 1931-1992
SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. This resource featured the writings of leading figures in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts from Latin America, North America, and Western Europe. Contributors include Le Corbusier, Lacan, Sartre, Borges, Silvina Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. This collection features images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs, advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.
Focuses on adult comic books and graphic novels, from the first underground comix in the 1960s to modern graphic novels. The collection contains full text comics and graphic novels, in addition to over 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles.
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Coverage: 1846-2005
Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, education, psychology and health, politics, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies' Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman's Day (1937 to 2005), and Women's International Network News (1975 to 2003).
Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.
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NYTimes.com provides full access to The New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, blogs, videos and more.
Note: You must set up an individual account using your email to access The New York Times. To set up your free NYTimes.com account, click here. Once you create an account, you may access The New York Times either on or off campus using your account credentials. You will have to create a new account once a year.
Faculty and instructors also have access to The New York Times in Education, a resource of teaching strategies, articles, discussion questions, case studies and more. To set up access, click here and register with your @ou.edu email address.
Provides full access to The Wall Street Journal, including breaking news from around the world, multimedia, detailed analysis, blogs, videos and more.
NOTE: Users must create an account using their OU credentials in order to use this resource and will need to refresh their access on an annual basis. Users should receive an email notification seven days prior to their refresh, indicating how to renew their access.
Access to this resource is funded by the OU Price College of Business.