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.