Databases A-Z
*Access to most library databases requires either an on-campus or a remote connection to the OBU network. To set up a remote connection, see http://www.obu.edu/ITS/faculty/support_vpn.asp.
ACS Journals - access to peer-reviewed research journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Annals of American History - original words of authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
Annual Reviews - critical reviews of primary research in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. OBU's subscription provides access to the Annual Reviews of Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Sociology.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Arkansas' largest newspaper. Searching the archives of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is free, but there is a charge to view an entire story.
Biotext Search Engine - scientific literature search tool that retrieves free full-text articles from PubMed Central. Developed as part of the BioText Project at the University of California, Berkeley.
Books in Print - the publishing industry's most comprehensive bibliographic database of book, audio book, and video titles.
Britannica Online - academic version of one of the world's leading general encyclopedias.
Credo Reference - full-text online reference service that provides access to numerous general and subject-specific reference works, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, thesauri, and books of quotations.
EBSCO Host - wide range of periodical literature and reference material databases.
Elsevier Science Direct - scholarly journals in the sciences, technology, and medicine. OBU's subscription includes full-text access to the following titles:
• Biomass & Bioenergy
• Biomaterials
• Bioresource Technology
• Carbon
• Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
• Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• Industrial Crops and Products
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• Journal of Power Sources
• Journal of Proteomics
• Materials Letters
• Pattern Recognition
First Search - index to book and periodicals databases among Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) member libraries.
Gale Databases (password: diamonds) - access to the following databases:
• OneFile - news and periodical articles on various topics
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - encyclopedias and specialized reference sources
• Discovering Collection - biographies, critical analyses, essays, timelines,
and multimedia elements
• General Reference Center Gold - business and general interest works
• Expanded Academic ASAP- scholarly and news resources
In the First Person - index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives within scholarly materials that are freely available on the WWW.
Influenza Information Portal - latest evidence-based information about influenza (flu)
Making of America - Cornell University's digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Includes a searchable, full-text version of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.
Marquis Who's Who - biographical database that chronicles the lives and accomplishments of millions of leaders and historical figures across disciplines. When finished using this database, click the log off button in the upper right corner of the Marquis Who's Who page.
Nature Online - weekly international science journal of peer-reviewed research.
Oxford English Dictionary - authoritative historical dictionary of words across the English-speaking world.
ProQuest Newspapers - recent issues of the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Select the "publications" tab to see coverage dates.
Religion Statistics - large collection of American and international religion statistics from surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the Association of Religion Data Archives.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - original articles from leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy. The articles cover a wide range of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.
SciFinder - index to single and multi-step reactions, experimental and predicted properties, and substance information from the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry. Initial access requires (1) set up on free registration page using OBU e-mail address and (2) a reply to membership confirmation e-mail within 48 hours.
Spanish Reference Center - reference sources in Spanish, including Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol (ages high school and up) and Enciclopedia Juvenil (ages 6-12).
Value Line - timely information on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles, including The Value Line Investment Survey, the most widely used independent investment service in the world.
Webster's Third International Dictionary - unabridged version of one of the world's leading dictionaries.
Wilson Web - access to the following H.W. Wilson databases: Art Index, Biography Reference, Book Review Digest Plus, Current Issues Reference Shelf Plus, and Short Story Index.
World Data Analyst - current and historical statistics on over 200 countries of the world. Allows subscribers to create tables, charts, and export the information to a spreadsheet for data analysis.