Databases A-Z
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Occupational Outlook HandbookThe Occupational Outlook Handbook is a source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.
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OECDiLibrary
Online portal for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publications and statistics. Source for internationally comparable statistical, environmental and socio-economic reports and data. OECD works with policy makers, governments and citizens to inform public decision-making.
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Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961
Access to Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department reports covering political, industrial, and military affairs of Cold War era Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Africa.
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Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
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Ogonek Digital Archive
Ogonek is one of the oldest weekly magazines in Russia, having been in continuous publication since 1923.
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Old Testament Abstracts
Indexing and abstracts for religion and theology journal articles, monographs, multi-author works and software related to Old Testament studies. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work.
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OnArchitecture
Online audiovisual archive of architecture, founded in 2012 by Chilean architects Felipe De Ferrari and Diego Grass along with psychologist Claudio Mesa. Please note: to access, select the “On Architecture” link on the EBSCO page.
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OnePetro
Online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, run by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Provides access to over 200,000 items concerning the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources and related technologies.
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OneSearch@IU
Brings together much of IU Libraries' content, allowing users to simultaneously search IUCAT, scholarly article databases, news and popular publications to retrieve a wide range of materials across subject areas.
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Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)
Bibliography of references in Egyptological literature. Includes the records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB, 1947-2001), combined with Bibliographie Altägypten (BA, 1822-1946), the Aigyptos database with keywords, and more than 50,000 further items.
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Online Responsa Project
Collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, covering over three thousand years of heritage and tradition.
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OntheBoards.tv
Access to full-length, high-quality contemporary performance films and artistic projects.
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Open FolkloreOpen Folklore, a partnership of the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, is a scholarly communications effort to make a greater number and variety of useful resources available to folklorists.
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OpenBibArt
Bibliographic database covering the arts from Late Antiquity to the present day. Includes close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.
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OpenDissertations
Free database providing access to records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
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Opening the Archives: Documenting US-Brazil Relations 1960s-80s
Collection of digitized and indexed declassified documents from the U.S. State Department Archives related to Brazil from 1960-1980.
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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
Social issues series for coverage of current events topics. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, and primary documents.
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Orbis
Database of private and listed company information. Includes companies' financial accounts, credit scores from a number of independent providers, directorships, ownership structures, PEPs and sanctions information, and details of mergers and acquisitions activity.
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Orlando
Provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies from centuries of women's writing.
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Otzar Online
PLEASE NOTE: users need to select "Enter 'Otzar Online" to access. Collection of thousands of searchable full-text titles in a wide range of fields of Judaic studies.
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Outdoor Indiana
Outdoor Indiana is the official publication of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (formerly the Department of Conservation). The magazine debuted in February 1934. The online version includes issues from February 1934 through November-December 1993. Issues 2020 to present can be found on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources website.
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Oxford Academic
Access to Oxford University Press e-books, journals, and other content. Includes access to license to Oxford Scholarship content, as well as University Press Scholarship, and Oxford Handbooks. Covers the areas of classics, economics and finance, history, law, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, and religion.
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Oxford African American Studies Center
Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture.
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Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online
Authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians. Combines the features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: African American Studies
Access to bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies, including culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: African Studies
An extensive bibliography compiled by scholars and experts in African Studies and related fields.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: American Literature
Access to peer reviewed bibliographies covering the study of American literature.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology
Access to extensive bibliographies covering the field of anthropology.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Architecture Planning and Preservation
Bibliographic guide to the field of architecture, planning, and preservation. Includes peer reviewed sources for the study of the built environment; the guide distinguishes between the publications that address buildings and landscapes, which run the gamut from archaeological reports aimed specifically at professionals in the field, to more accessible studies aimed at a general readership.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History
Provides access to articles, research guides, and annotations in the field of art history.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of Atlantic history. Atlantic history is a developing field of historical inquiry that operates upon new assumptions about how to understand the nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the modern academic study of the bible.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish Literature
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of British and Irish literature.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Buddhism
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of Buddhism.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Childhood Studies
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of children and young people. Childhood studies is a field of research that is concerned with the meanings that adults place on children’s innocence or competence, and interrogates the notion of childhood as a social category. How adults have thought about children and the impact that this has had on the ways children are treated are also analyzed critically and emphasis is placed on historical, cultural and literary interpretations of childhood.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Chinese Studies
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the multi- and inter-disciplinary study of China. Includes annotations on key works across the whole field, including scholarship in European languages as well as in Chinese and Japanese.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies
An extensive bibliography compiled by scholars and experts in cinema and media studies.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of the ancient world.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Communication
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of communication. The study of communication is a multidisciplinary effort to understand the constant, varied, and complex transmission and exchange of information, knowledge, and ideas.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of criminology. Includes citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways intended to guide users on the essential literature across the various subfields of criminology.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the discipline of ecology. Covers topics from all the relevant areas, including autoecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology, the main biomes of the world, as well as articles related to the synthesis of ecology with other disciplines including human ecology, agroecology, and chemical ecology.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Education
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of education. From teacher retention strategies to early childhood development, the study of education features a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Environmental Science
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of environmental science. Environmental science arose from disparate disciplines as a distinct field in the last half of the 20th century, initially fueled by awareness of environmental degradation, risk of species loss, and global climate change. It encompasses, but is not limited to the physical sciences, the planning and social sciences, the health sciences, engineering, governance, and policy.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Evolutionary Biology
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of evolutionary biology.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Geography
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the study of geography. Geography is the study of the earth’s surface, including its physical, biological, and social systems.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of Hindu Studies. The study of Hinduism combines religion, philosophy, history, and textual studies, as well as informing a variety of comparative studies.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Law
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of international law. International law deals with the complex system of rules and principles that govern the relations between states and other institutional subjects, such as the United Nations or the European Union.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Relations
Access to authoritative bibliographies in the field of international relations. Traditionally referred to as the study of foreign affairs and political interaction between states, international relations covers the complex cultural, economic, legal, military, and political relations of all states and their component populations, as well as non-state actors and international organizations.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies
Extensive bibliography and annotated lists of key literature compiled by experts in the field of Islamic Studies. Covers the range of lived experiences and textual traditions of Muslims as they are articulated in various countries and regions throughout the world.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies
An extensive bibliography compiled by scholars in Jewish Studies and related fields.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies
An extensive bibliography compiled by scholars and experts in Latin American Studies and related fields.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latino Studies
Reference tool providing access to bibliographies in the field of Latino studies.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics
Access to authoritative bibliographies in the field of linguistics. The study of linguistics makes connections across an array of scholarly concerns, from the humanities to many of the social and behavioral sciences to biology, physics, engineering, and medicine.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Literary and Critical Theory
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering literary and critical theory. Literary and critical theory has become the hegemonic methodology for the study of text and is often regarded both as a sub-discipline in itself and as a critical tool through which to liberate deeper and more complex meanings from texts. It encompasses a range of topics, including periods, movements, themes and works.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Management
Access to authoritative bibliographies in the field of management studies. Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling an organization’s financial, physical, human, and information resources in ways intended to achieve and maintain organizational effectiveness.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on European and Mediterranean civilization from the 4th to the 15th centuries. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Military History
Access to authoritative bibliographies in the field of military history. Military history has evolved into a multidisciplinary effort to go beyond the history of military operations to consider broader political, cultural, and social questions. It spans across several disciplines and genres, including sociology and political science, biography, war and battle narratives, the history of technology, foreign affairs and international relations, and various national histories.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
Access to brief introductions and extensive annotated bibliographies of topics in music research with an emphasis on composers and their works as well as periods in music history.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy
Access to authoritative bibliographies in the field of philosophy. Philosophy is one of the oldest areas of study with a long history of critical literature.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of political science.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of psychology. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior, a broad term encompassing perception, cognition, emotion, and action, as well as increasing emphasis on neuroscience and culture.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Public Health
Annotated bibliography covering key areas of public health, including public policy, non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases, social determinants of disease, and key issues of poverty, equity, and social justice.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation
Extensive bibliography compiled by scholars and experts covering the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, which spans roughly from the 14th through 17th centuries.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Social Work
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of social work. As a discipline grounded in social theory and the improvement of peoples’ lives, social work scholarship necessarily shifts and changes along with society, which leads, in turn, to an ever-growing body of literature.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Sociology
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of sociology, the study of society and human behavior.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Urban Studies
Access to authoritative bibliographies covering the field of urban studies. Urban studies is a broad, interdisciplinary field of study that includes subfields not only in most of the major social sciences, but also in the humanities, and in more technical fields such as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies covering the field of Victorian Literature. Combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
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Oxford Classical Dictionary
Continuously updated version of the fourth edition of the OCD. Entries incorporate new available data, perspectives, and bibliographical resources. Reflects a broader and more inclusive coverage of the ancient world than the fourth edition, with a diverse and international board of editors and contributors.
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Oxford Classical Dictionary, Third Edition
Reference work on the classical world. Covers all aspects of ancient life - political, economic, philosophical, religious, artistic, and social. Includes over six thousand entries ranging from long articles to brief definitions. There is substantial coverage of women in the ancient world, sexuality, Asia and the Far East, Judaism, and early Christians. Thematic articles reflect the current emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to classical studies.
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Oxford Constitutions of the World
Access to fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual jurisdictional commentaries, and supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical versions of constitutions, and amendment Acts/Laws.
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Oxford DictionariesBilingual dictionaries of English and French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of those who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Contains 600 entries covering the prehistoric, predynastic, and dynastic phases of ancient Egypt within the context of its contiguous and sometimes conquering neighbors.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication
Reference resource covering all facets of the study of communication. Includes essays based on new research written by respected scholars within the discipline.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Reference resource covering all facets of the study of crime and justice issues.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
Covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Broad and international in scope, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of theatre and performance, from costuming, to actors, to Broadway shows.
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Oxford English Dictionary
Includes definitions, etymologies, and quotations. Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world.
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Oxford Guide to British Women Writers
Covers over 400 British women writers in a wide variety of literary genres, including novels, travel writing, poetry, theater, children's books, cook books and religious writings. The authors are "women whose reputations were established before the early 1980s." The editor broadly defines "British," so there are entries for those born elsewhere but whose careers were in an important part tied to Britain.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Archaeology
Access to Oxford Handbooks covering the field of archaeology. Combines the works of original scholarship with authoritative overviews of particular subjects. Coverage includes all the major geographical areas of the world.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Business and Management
Access to texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management series.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Classical Studies
Access to Oxford Handbooks covering all major fields and sub-fields of contemporary research into Classical and ancient Mediterranean culture.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology and Criminal Justice
Access to a variety of articles and handbooks related to the study of criminology and criminal justice.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Economics and Finance
Access to a variety of articles and handbooks in the field of economics and finance.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: History
Access to texts in the Oxford handbooks history series. Includes introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in history.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Law
Access to articles and chapters from the Oxford Handbooks series covering all aspects of law.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Linguistics
Access to Oxford Handbooks in the field of linguistics, the scientific study of human language and languages.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature
Access to articles and handbooks in the Oxford's Handbooks series on literature.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
Access to articles in Oxford's Handbooks series on music.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Neuroscience
Access to Oxford Handbooks covering the field of neuroscience. Includes authoritative, critical, and original perspectives on the state of the science, research trends, future research needs, and the relationship of research to applications.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Philosophy
Access to texts in the Oxford handbooks series on philosophy, covering various philosophers, schools of thought, and sub-fields.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Physical Sciences
Access to a variety of articles and handbooks related to the field of physical sciences.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
Access to articles in the Oxford Handbooks series on political science.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion
Access to Oxford handbooks covering the subject of religion. Includes essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, as well as essays on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and cross-cultural thematic studies.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Social Work
Searchable texts of the Oxford handbooks in social work, covering various schools of thought, and sub-fields in the study of social work.
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Sociology
Searchable texts of the Oxford handbooks in sociology, covering various schools of thought, and sub-fields in sociology.
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Oxford Journals Archive
Access to Oxford University Press backfile journal content. Includes coverage of the following subject areas: arts and humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics, and social science.
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Oxford Music Online (Grove)
Includes access to Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. Comprehensive resource covering all musical topics.
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Oxford Reference Online
Reference resources from the Oxford University Press. Includes English dictionaries and thesauruses, English language reference books, bilingual dictionaries, quotations, maps and illustrations, timelines and subject reference sources.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
Comprehensive, online research encyclopedia covering all areas of African history. Includes both primary and secondary materials and is updated regularly.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
Digital research encyclopedia covering American history. Along with essays, it incorporates visual and sound materials and links to original sources. Includes peer-reviewed articles and broad coverage of the field. Some topics feature debates by two or three historians about the most useful ways to understand subjects.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Reference resource covering all facets of the study of anthropology. Source of foundational encyclopedic information as well as the exploration of new and emerging ideas in the field.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of Asian history from prehistory to the present. Along with essays, it includes internet resources for research and teaching, audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
Integrated, comprehensive, and authoritative reference tool covering the subject of business and management. Provides a compilation of research from scholars, students, and practitioners in the field.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
Online reference resource covering the field of climate science. It structures the issues that “climate” presents into three threads, namely: (1) our understanding of, and response to, the geophysical and biogeochemical system, including the sensitivity of the system to external drivers and its natural variability. (2) The ubiquitous presence of communication and policymaking leads us to deal with different cultural framings of climate, as well as with the social process of climate science. (3) Finally economic and climate policy issues at the international and at the local level are considered.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Reference resource covering the study of economics and finance. Articles on foundational topics focus on the evolution and structure of research programs and their dynamics, the questions and puzzles that drive research, and the interaction between theory and empirics. Articles on more recent research developments discuss motivations, including links to foundational approaches, and unresolved questions or possible directions of new research.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
Digital encyclopedia covering the study of education. Articles are continuously revised so there is minimal lag between primary research and the syntheses provided in the encyclopedia.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
Reference resource covering the field of environmental science. Includes authoritative overview articles by leading scientists, researchers, and experts. Covers the origins, traditions, controversies, advancements and methodologies of the subject.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health
Reference resource covering the field of public health.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
Reference resource both for junior researchers and for senior scholars who are interested in various areas of inquiry in international studies. Includes up-to-date analyses of the state of the literature, trends, and new directions in issue areas ranging from global governance to intelligence analysis.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of Latin American history. Includes audio and video content as well as essays. Covers Latin American histories of empires, colonies, enclaves, and nations; its vast diversity of peoples, landscapes, animals, plants, and cultures; and its multitudinous communities of nations, ethnicities, and localities.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Reference resource for the study of linguistics.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of literature. Along with essays, the resource includes visual and audio content. Provides reference materials for the various fields opened by the study of literature, including: music, art, politics, society, sexuality, psychology, and language.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
Reference resource on natural hazard science. Covers science, technology, research findings and innovation for natural hazards understanding, and management for disaster risk reduction and reinforcement of the resilience of communities.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Reference resource on the field of neuroscience. Designed for students at any level, and intended as a complete and constantly updated information site covering all areas of contemporary neuroscience.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science
Reference resource covering the spectrum of the Earth and planetary sciences.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Reference resource covering the field of politics.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
Reference resource covering the field of psychology.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of religion. Along with essays, the resource also includes audio and visual content. Encompasses the study of scriptures, practices, social contexts, and history across religious traditions, various eras and places from diverse perspectives.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Access to peer-reviewed research articles across a range of disciplines.