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Databases
marked with * require subscriptions and are therefore limited to use
by
current
students, faculty and staff of Langston University.
*Academic
Search Elite
- Multi-disciplinary database for full-text of more than 2050 journals,
including more than 1500 peer-reviewed titles dating as far back as 1985.
African
American History and Culture at the Smithsonian
- Internet guide to historical
resources.
African
American Odyssey
- Rare and unique items from the Library of Congress’ vast
African-American collections.
African American
Mosaic - A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of
black history & culture.
African
American Perspectives
- Eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth
centuries.
*African
American Song - African American Song is the first online resource
to document the history of African American music in an online music
listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres
such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among
others.
*African
American Studies Center -
Contains over 7500 articles culled from five
Oxford encyclopedias and 18 other Oxford reference sources-including,
among others, Africana: The Encyclopedia of African and African American
Experience; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; and
Black Women in America, 2d ed.-along with over 1000 images, over 100
primary sources, time lines, maps, tables, and a Learning Center full of
ready-reference resources. This database "will enable us to reassemble
the lost and scattered fragments of the African American past." Editor
Henry Louis Gates Jr.(Library Journal July 2006)
African
American Women Online Archives
- Collection from Duke University.
AfriGeneas - African American
genealogical resources of the internet.
Agricola - Index to
publications encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied
disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant
sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming
systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human
nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Agricultural
Fact Book - Describes the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s wide-ranging programs and services, including farm
programs; exports; food safety; nutrition; management of land, water, and
forests; protecting our borders from pests and diseases; and research.
Agricultural
Statistics -
Reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption,
facilities, costs, and returns.
American
Fact Finder -
Statistics on population, housing, economics, etc. in the U.S.
American Memory - Historical
documents of life in the United States from the Library of Congress.
* Article First
- Multi-disciplinary index to articles from
scholarly and popular publications.
Background
Notes - Facts about
the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and
foreign relations of countries around the world.
Biology Browser -
Free database of resources for the life sciences community.
BioMed
Central - More than 100 open access
journals covering biology and medicine.
*Black
Drama - contains approximately
1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded
information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and
more. The database also includes selected playbills, production
photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Black History.com - Black
history resources on the internet.
Black History
Quest - Legacy of America’s rich African
American history.
*Black
Short Fiction - contains
approximately 4370 stories and folktales by 272 African, African
American, and Caribbean authors.
*Black
Thought and Culture - contains 795 sources with 434
authors which includes the non-fiction published works of leading
African Americans. Where possible the complete published non-fiction
works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters and
other fugitive material.
Bureau of
Transportation Statistics
- Index of transportation related databases covering every mode of
transportation.
*Business
Source Elite - Index and full text for
nearly 7500 scholarly business publications. Includes information about
individual businesses.
*Children’s
Resources -
Links to research sites for our younger patrons.
CIA
World Fact Book - Intelligence on foreign
countries from the Central Intelligence Agency.
*CINAHL
Plus with full-text
- Index to scholarly and professional publications in the areas of nursing
and health.
Code
of Federal Regulations -
The laws of the United States of America.
*Communication & Mass Media
Complete
- Research in the areas of communication and media.
Congressional
Record - The
official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States
Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session.
Digital
Music Collections -
Links to digital copies of sheet music and scores.
Digital
Schomburg - Images of
African Americans from the 19th century.
Directory of Open Access
Journals
- Free full-text scientific and scholarly journals.
DynaMed - DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to
answer most clinical questions during practice. Over 2,000 topics have
been summarized and clinically-organized for use primarily at
"point-of-care" from over 500 medical journals systematic review
databases.
*ebrary
- a growing collection of more than 25,000 full-text books and other
authoritative content from leading publishers. Academic Complete spans
multiple subject areas such as Business & Economics, Computer,
Engineering & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Science, Medicine & Allied
Health, and Social Sciences. It also includes the ebrary Reader™ and
InfoTools™ software, which make the research process quick and
efficient.
Economy at a Glance - latest
information on the U. S. economy from the Dept. of Labor.
EDGAR
- SEC forms and filings from the U. S. Security and Exchange
Commission.
*Electronic
Journals Service - Gateway to thousands of e-journals containing
millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, all at one web
site.
Education
Statistics
- National Center for Education Statistics.
*Encyclopaedia
Britannica
- The complete EB Online with connections to much more.
ERIC
- World’s premier database of journal and non-journal education
literature.
*Essay
Finder
- Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive
writing. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art
and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science & drama.
*Ethnic
News Watch
- Interdisciplinary, bilingual
(English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Federal
Business Opportunities
- Commercial vendors seeking
Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor and retrieve
opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.
Federal
Register
- Official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of
Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other
presidential documents.
Fedstats
- Gateway to statistics from
over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
FirstGov
- U.S. government’s official web portal.
*Funk
& Wagnall’s Encyclopedia
- Indexes over 25,000 records,
covering an array of topics.
GPO
Access
- Access to important
information products produced by the Federal Government.
GPO
Online
- Index to the publications of
the U.S. government.
Gateway
to African American History
- African American history site from the U.S.
government.
*Health
Source - Consumers
- Provides access to nearly 300
full text, consumer health periodicals; nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets;
135 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical
Society; more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and
Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
*Health
Source - Nursing
- More than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450
peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured
are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing
and allied health is particularly strong.
Health
Statistics
- From the National Center for
Health Statistics, the principal health statistics agency in the U.S.
Highwire
- Over 15 million articles from
over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 930,952 free full text articles from 868
HighWire-hosted journals.
Historical
Documents of the U.S.
- U.S. historical documents
available through the American Memory Project .
*Hoover’s Online
- Database of 13 million
companies, with in-depth coverage of 42,000 of the world's top business
enterprises.
I
Hear America Singing
- Historic American sheet music,
1800 - 1920.
In
the First Person
- Index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal
narratives.
*Learning Express Library
- Test preparation materials, practice tests, etc. for a wide range of
subjects and career choices.
*Lexis-Nexis Academic - LexisNexis is an outstanding service for
researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than
6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and
online media. Topical indexing and powerful search features help you
find exactly the information you need.
Librarians’
Index to the Internet
- "Information You Can
Trust." A searchable, browsable collection of over 16,000 high-quality
websites.
*Literature
Resource Center
- Premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all
time periods writing in all genres.
*LitFinder
- Connects users with reliable, in-depth and constantly updated
information on authors and their works.
*MasterFile Premier
- Multi-discipline database for
the general public providing full-text to nearly 2,050 general reference
publications dating as far back as 1975.
*Medline
- Authoritative medical
information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health
care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Medline
Plus
- Goldmine of good health
information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of
Medicine.
*Mental
Measurements Yearbook
- Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary
testing instruments.
*Military
Library
- Current news pertaining to all
branches of the military.
NTRS-NASA
Technical Reports
- Research reports, journal articles, conference and
meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents,
and preliminary data.
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service - created in 1972, is a federally funded
resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support
research, policy, and program development worldwide.
*Newsbank
- Full-text content of thousands
of local, regional, and international newspapers.
*Newspaper
Source
- Selected full text for nearly
30 national and international newspapers, more than 200 regional newspapers, and
many television & radio news transcripts.
O*NET
- The Dictionary of Occupational
Titles from the U.S. Dept. of Labor.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook
- Nationally recognized source of career information. Describes what
workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education
needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of
occupations.
Oklahoma
Periodicals Index
- Index to The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Today, Outdoor Oklahoma,
and Persimmon Hill.
Oklahoma
Statutes - The laws of the state of Oklahoma.
*The
(Daily) Oklahoman
- Index and full-text from 1982 to the present.
Our
Shared History
- Guide to historic places,
people, and events presented by the National Park Service.
*PapersFirst
- Index of citations for papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Physics
Internet Resources
- Links to a wide range of
physics journals and science magazines, as well as special publications,
document database, e-print servers, and a list of scientific publishing houses.
*Poem
Finder
- More than 125,000 full-text poems, including over 25,000 copyrighted,
new poems.
*ProceedingsFirst
- Index of citations to the
proceedings of conferences from all over the world.
*Professional
Development Collection
- Designed for professional
educators, provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education
journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than
200 educational reports.
*PsycARTICLES - A
database of full-text articles from journals published by the American
Psychological Association
*PsycINFO
- More than 2 million citations
and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and
dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as
the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Public
and Private Laws
- Contains the text of public and private laws
enacted from the 104th Congress to the present.
PubMed
- Includes over 15 million
citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals for biomedical
articles back to the 1950's. PubMed includes links to full text articles and
other related resources.
PubMed Central (PMC) - A
free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical
and life sciences.
*Regional Business News
- Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and
newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United
States.
Science.gov
- Gateway to authoritative selected science
information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and
development results.
Schomburg
Center at NYPL
- Research in Black culture.
SCIRUS
- The most comprehensive science-specific search
engine on the Internet, searching over 200 million science-specific Web
pages.
*Serials
Solutions Electronic Journals List
- Access to full-text electronic journals.
*SIRS
Discoverer
- Online resource designed to develop research,
reading, writing, language and computer skills. Consists of full-text
articles collected from national and international magazines, newspapers,
and U.S. government documents.
Statistical
Abstract of the U.S.
- Contains a collection of statistics on social and
economic conditions in the United States.
*Story
Finder
- Short stories from the classic to the most
contemporary, along with explications and brief biographies of the
authors.
Thomas
Register - comprehensive resource for industrial information.
*TOPICsearch
- Current events database that
explores social, political, economic and science issues.
TOXNET
- Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous
chemicals, and related areas.
*Tulsa
World
- Index and full-text from 1989 to present.
Uniform
Crime Reports
- Conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police
to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In
1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those
statistics.
United
States Code
- Codification by subject matter of the general and
permanent laws of the United States.
*World
Almanac
- Fundamental reference source for students, library
patrons, library reference staff, and scholars. Includes biographies,
encyclopedia entries,
facts, statistics.
*WorldCat
- Extensive catalog of books and other materials held in libraries
worldwide.
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