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American Rhetoric

Access over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Publisher: American Rhetoric

Chicago Tribune

Read the latest news from the online edition of the Chicago Tribune. Search full text news articles from Feb 23, 2017 to the present. To browse and search older articles go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: Chicago Tribune

Communication and Mass Media Complete

This resource provides in-depth coverage of communication and mass media journals and literature. It includes over 380 full text journals and indexing for hundreds more. CMMC also include author profiles for the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre Plus offers access to streaming videos of current leading theater productions. It includes behind-the-scenes documentaries, as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of theater productions and texts. Learning resources include detailed introductions, plot summaries, character biographies, relationship maps, language analyses, scene studies, performance backgrounds, and historical contexts for each play.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Digital Theatre Plus
  • Publisher: Digital Theatre Plus

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

FTLI covers film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

IBTD provides easy access to over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theater and performance. It contains hundreds of full-text titles and 150+ full-text journals.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

New York Times

Read the latest news from the online edition of the New York Times. Search full text news articles from 1980 to the present. To browse and search older articles go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: New York Times

New York Times Book Review

Read the latest reviews from the online edition of the New York Times Book Review. The NYT Book Review is a weekly supplement to the Sunday edition of the New York Times, and offers reviews of current non-fiction and fiction books. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. Search full text reviews from Jan. 3, 1988 to the present (some reviews published between Jan. 1, 1997 - Dec. 31, 2006 are not available). To browse and search older content go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: New York Times

New York Times Magazine

Read the latest articles from the online edition of the New York Times Magazine. This magazine is a supplement to the Sunday edition of the New York Times. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper. Search full text news articles from Jan 5, 1997 to the present. To browse and search older articles go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: New York Times

Points of View Reference Center

Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides essays presenting multiple sides of a current issue. Each topic has an overview, point/counterpoint argument, and a Critical Thinking Guide. Example topics include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Israel and the Palestinians, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, and many others

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Pop Culture Universe

Pop Culture Universe includes offers thousands of overviews of pop culture from the 1920's to the present, including movies, television shows, awards, fads, fashions, and news.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: ABC-CLIO Solutions

Swank Digital Campus

Swank Digital Campus provides streaming access to movies, documentaries, and TV shows from major Hollywood studios, as well as many independent and international filmmakers and studios. Titles are made available to SWOSU students at the request of instructors.

Instructors: See this page for instructions on setting up a Swank Digital Campus instructor account. Click here to browse the full Swank catalog, which offers over 25,000 films, documentaries, and TV shows. To request a Swank video for your course, make a request through your Swank account or contact the Library Director.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.
  • Publisher: Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Wall Street Journal

Read the latest business news from the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Search full text news articles from Jan 8, 2010 to the present. To browse and search older articles go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Read the latest news from the online edition of the Washington Post. Search full text news articles from May 21, 2016 to the present. To browse and search older articles go to U.S. Major Dailies.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: ProQuest
  • Publisher: Washington Post

Academic Ebook Collection (EBSCO)

This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of ebooks covering a wide array of academic subjects and features ebooks from leading publishers and university presses. All ebooks in this collection have unlimited user access.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete provides fast access to articles from thousands of full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers across a wide range of topics, including the STEM disciplines, healthcare, education, social sciences, and the humanities. Along with over 3,700 full-text periodicals, ASC has indexes and abstracts for thousands of articles which can be requested via interlibrary loan.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

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Academic Video Online (formerly VAST)

Academic Video Online is a streaming video collection containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The Academic Video Online collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.

AVO was previously named VAST: Academic Video Online.

Formerly known as VAST: Academic Video Online.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Alexander Street Press

AM Explorer (trial ends 5/7/23)

Spanning more than 120 thematic collections, this resource for primary source material includes several million pages of full-text documents, maps, diaries, posters, ephemera, photographs, and other textual and visual material spanning the 15th through 20th centuries.

This is a trial subscription which ends on May 7, 2023. The library needs your feedback on AM Explorer. Please fill out the Database Feedback Form and let us know what you think.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Adam Matthew Digital
  • Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center

This resource offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every craftsperson and hobbyist. There's full text from magazines and books covering many interests, including arts and crafts, outdoor recreation, photography, LEGO, robotics, and much more.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Image Quest

Access to more than two million images from some of the best collections in the world, including DK Images, Getty Images, the National Geographic Society, Oxford Scientific, and other leading sources. Image Quest is organized by subject matter and full searchable. All images are licensed for non-commercial educational use.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: JSTOR

Literary Reference Center

LRC is a comprehensive literary reference database which provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. MagillOnLiterature Plus is included in LRC.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Oxford Reference

Oxford Reference contains titles from the Oxford Companion series, as well as the following:

  • 130+ subject dictionaries and the Oxford World Encyclopedia
  • English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history
  • 12,000 images and 500+ color maps
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Oxford

Poetry and Short Story Reference Center

Poetry and Short Story Reference Center contains selected works of major and minor American and English poets, along with a wide range of international poetry. Works include plays and speeches, short stories and classic books, biographies, critical analyses, contextual essays and explications for important works, essays on poetic forms, literary terms, techniques and movements, multimedia (audio and video) of poets reading their works, and interviews from reputable sources.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

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