Databases (OU 4x4 or other login required)
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Oklahoman ArchiveCoverage: 1901-present
A Pioneer Library System (Norman) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. The Oklahoman, formerly The Daily Oklahoman. Full text of images to 1991. Text only 1992-2019. NOTE: Scroll down and click on Oklahoman Archive - Newsbank. -
Oklahoman CollectionCoverage: 1901-present
A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. The Oklahoman, formerly The Daily Oklahoman. Full text of images to 1991. Text only 1992-2019.
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America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1910-present
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present, including topics in the social sciences and humanities. Materials indexed include journals articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video 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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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Provides access to materials in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1926-present
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database is an index covering topics in literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Materials indexed include journals, books, working papers, translations, dissertations, websites, and conference proceedings.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
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Oklahoman This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1981-present
Complete text from 1981 to present of The Oklahoman, which focuses on both local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Also includes access to The Oklahoman Web Edition from 2013 onward.
The Oklahoman's pre-1984 evening supplemental edition, The Oklahoma City Times, is available through Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Note: Some archival issues are available on microfilm. To access these, please use the “Request via Sooner Xpress” link in the following catalog records: 1969-1984, 1984-1985, 1985-1990, 2005-mid 2025. The most recent three months can also be viewed in print.
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.
Online Catalogs
Use the Local Catalog to find print and e-books, audio-visual material, streaming content, and journals held by OU Libraries. Use WorldCat to find materials held by libraries around the world. The library can often borrow materials from other libraries using Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Journals
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Steinbeck Review (dates vary with database; requires OU 4x4)
Call Number: OnlineAn authorized publication on the life and works of American novelist John Steinbeck. Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. (Choose database that covers the years you would like to view.) -
Steinbeck Quarterly (1968-1993)
Call Number: Online & PS 3537 .T3234 S842 (1972-1993)Originally published by the John Steinbeck Society of America. -
Steinbeck Studies (2004-2005; requires OU 4x4)
Call Number: OnlineMartha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. Title was absorbed by Steinbeck Review, above.
Online Resources
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Steinbeck Now"An independent information resource with no institutional affiliation, SteinbeckNow.com is a not-for-profit, non-commercial educational portal developed to benefit the public, SteinbeckNow.com accepts original articles and art with a fresh, transformative perspective on Steinbeck’s life, thought, and persona."
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Documenting America: Photographs From the Great Depression to World War II"The photographs in the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, who guided the effort in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942), and the Office of War Information (1942-1944)."
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Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection"The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration."