Online resources : databases

OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Users can search by keyword, title, creator, subject or resource type, and searches yield a detailed and well-organized description of the resource and a link to the resource itself. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster contains over a 1.7 million records harvested from over 200 institutions. Interface searches a number of online digital libraries, digitized archive collections, and other resources whose internal contents are inaccessible to normal search engines.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

A searchable collection of full text newspapers. Updates generally occur within 48 hours of print.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

The Occupational Health & Safety Information Service provides health, safety and environmental practitioners with the only comprehensive, online information. Working with partners and sourcing information from more than 400 providers across the UK, Ireland, Europe and the world, the service offers the latest regulatory information and hot topics including full text copies of all UK Health and Safety Executive publications, published guidance from dozens of other organisations, all UK health and safety legislation and associated Approved Codes of Practice and a range of relevant European Directives.

Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.

Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.

Oxford DNB is an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, in the British Isles and beyond, from the fourth century BC to the year 2009.

"The OECD iLibrary, the new platform giving access to selected OECD statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available. It replaces SourceOECD."

The OED presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang. This online edition contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.

The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.

Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English.

"Fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages"--About page.

Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.

'OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype' -- Abstract from OMIM.

OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. From one place, you can search documents from many different professional societies, or similar organizations, that serve the oil and gas industry.

John Mark Ockerbloom presents an index to full-text versions of works of literature, searchable by authors, titles, subjects, and serials. Users may browse the complete list of authors listed in the index. English literary works, as well as English translations of literary works in other languages, are available as part of the Online Books project.

DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links. These contents are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites. The contents of DIR have been prepared by scholars but are meant to be accessible to non-specialists as well. They have been peer- reviewed for quality and accuracy before publication on this site.

Collection of science reference materials based on the full text and illustrations from the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus updates from the Yearbooks of Science and Technology, definitions from Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies from Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, headline news from Science News, bibliographies, study guides, and more.

The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

This video follows a high school teacher as she demonstrates the importance of incorporating technology in the classroom to engage students and give them an opportunity to acquire important computer and internet skills at school, especially when they may not have access at home.

Access to freely available British and Irish public legal information. The aim of the OpenLaw Project is to digitise thousands of core historical legal judgments and law reports, and for the first time make these freely and openly available electronically on the BAILII website.

The database contains 1,369 vernacular texts (16.4 million words) dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini.

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

A cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the Internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World Wide Web. Includes links to existing medieval resources, the ORB encyclopedia, resources for teaching, e-texts, and the ORB library.

Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Digimap allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

"Organizing for Literacy" is a professional development series for implementing a balanced early literacy program based on apprenticeship theory. When used in conjunction with the book Apprenticeship in Literacy, the series presents a complete early literacy resource, with the option of using individual videos to focus on a specific area of need. The programs illustrate the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning across a range of reading and writing events. Each program is designed to allow you to view it in its entirety or to focus on specific literacy components. The accompanying Viewing Guide is structured to promote the analysis of teaching and learning interactions during these components. The videos can also be cross-referenced for evidence of how the same children are applying their knowledge, skills, and strategies across a range of reading, writing, and word-building activities. Since this is an important principle of apprenticeship literacy, a chart for cross-referencing teaching segments across the four programs is included at the end of the viewing guide.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Business and Management.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Economics and Finance.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Law.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Literature.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Mathematics.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Philosophy.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Physics.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Political science.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Religion.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Political science.

Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given in an "About this journal" section. The "Online journals" table lists the available online material for each journal. The full text of these online journals is generally available for the past several years, though abstracts of articles date back additional years.

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piaget's work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting interviews with children of varying ages, this film presents an overview of Piaget's developmental theory, its scope and content.

The database contains 1,369 vernacular texts (16.4 million words) dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini.

A service for biomedical sciences, comprising the databases Medline and Cinahl, collections of full-text journals, and Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (including Best Evidence, Cochrane, and DARE). The database aggregates hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies, with each journal available by individual subscription. Includes access and searching of all the bibliographic citations, references, and abstracts in the database as well as to the full text of select journals.

The database of biomedical literature from the U.S. Department of Health, with additional coverage of the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Provides access to indexes of all areas of medicine (over 3,500 journals published internationally from 1965 to the present, including dentistry, nursing, and health services. Includes records with astracts. Also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index.

The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. The online version provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. It offers original essays on each subject by scholars in the field, originally commissioned maps, diagrams, line drawings, art resources, site links (which include images), etc.

Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., are available via OMO.

Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., are available via OMO.

Oxford DNB is an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, in the British Isles and beyond, from the fourth century BC to the year 2009.

The OED presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang. This online edition contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.

"This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved"--About page.

Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given in an "About this journal" section. The "Online journals" table lists the available online material for each journal. The full text of these online journals is generally available for the past several years, though abstracts of articles date back additional years.

"Fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages"--About page.

Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., are available via OMO.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Business and Management.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Economics and Finance.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Law.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Literature.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Mathematics.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Philosophy.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Physics.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Political science.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Religion.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Political science.

Based within the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University Computing Services, The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora. The archive itself was founded in 1976. The website probably dates from the late 1990s.

Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given in an "About this journal" section. The "Online journals" table lists the available online material for each journal. The full text of these online journals is generally available for the past several years, though abstracts of articles date back additional years.