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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 Premier

Academic Search Premier replaced Academic Search Complete on 1/1/2024. More info …

Academic Search Premier 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 hundreds of full-text periodicals, ASP 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

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

Digital Commons Network

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Elsevier
  • Publisher: Elsevier

Encyclopedia Britannica

The complete text and images of Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional online features include thousands of multimedia sound and video resources, an atlas, web links, news updates, and more.

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

Exploring Race in Society

This database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Full-text essays, articles, reports and reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness.

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

Films on Demand

FoD provides instant access to over 24,000 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. Instructors: Follow these instructions to embed FoD videos into your Canvas courses.

Follow these instructions to create a personal FoD account. With a personal FoD account you can save playlists with your favorite videos and watch videos using FoD's mobile apps (Android | Apple).

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Films Media Group

Follow these instructions to create a personal Films on Demand account. Then download the app for your device and login with your personal account to watch videos.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Use Funk and Wagnalls for basic information on over 25,000 topics.

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

Headline News from U.S. Major Dailies

Read the fulltext of the latest news stories from these major newspapers, courtesy of U.S. Major Dailies:

(FYI: Did you know U.S. Major Dailies from the Al Harris Library and ProQuest saves you $1,300/year versus buying your own subscriptions?)

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

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.

Issues and Controversies

Issues and Controversies provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on prominent and hotly debated issues. It combines objective analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.

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

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library with thousands of full-text academic journals, books, and primary sources. Subjects covered in JSTOR include area studies, the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.

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

Libby by OverDrive

Libby by OverDrive offers thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines that you can use online or through the Libby app on your phone or tablet. Libby is easy to use, and you can check out titles for 21 days. Libby's ebooks include popular fiction (including recent bestsellers) and nonfiction titles covering a vast array of topics, including history, business, science, and technology.

Download the Libby mobile app to get ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines on your phone or tablet.

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

Choose a link below to download an app for Headline News from U.S. Major Dailies.

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

Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus contains the full text of major regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, and six newswires. Full text newspapers include the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and USA Today. NSP also contains transcripts for many national news programs from ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, and NPR.

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

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis)

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) provides searchable access to a wide spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and court proceedings.

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

Our World in Data

"The mission of Our World in Data is to make data and research on the world’s largest problems understandable and accessible." Broadly organized around the UN Global Sustainability goals, themes include health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Global Change Data Lab
  • Publisher: Global Change Data Lab

Statista

As one of the largest statistics portals worldwide, Statista professionally gathers and compiles data from numerous institutes and sources. Users have access to statistics on more than 80,000 topics from over 18,000 individual sources covering a wide variety of disciplines, including business, education, health, political science, technology, and more. Business statistics are available for over 170 different industry sectors.

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

TOPICsearch

TOPICsearch contains articles from thousands of sources, including international and regional newspapers, magazines, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Each article is associated with a main topic or current event which can be selected from drop down menus on the search page.

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

U.S. Major Dailies

U.S .Major Dailies (formerly National Newspapers Core) includes the full text of the following newspapers:

  • Chicago Tribune
  • Los Angeles Times
  • New York Times
  • New York Times Book Review
  • New York Times Magazine
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Washington Post
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: ProQuest

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

WorldCat

Search the holdings of academic, public, and special libraries throughout the US and the world. Use WorldCat to search for books, videos, and other materials not owned by the SWOSU library and request them through interlibrary loan. Advanced WorldCat searching is also available via FirstSearch.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: OCLC

ABC-CLIO Greenwood Ebooks

ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press publishes biographies of major current and historical figures, as well as titles covering current affairs in politics and culture.

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

ArticleFirst

An index to journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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

Census Data

data.census.gov from the U.S. Census Bureau makes it easy to find and download statistics about population, education, housing, industry, and business. data.census.gov includes data from the American Community Survey and the Decennial Census. See examples of census data for Weatherford and Oklahoma. (data.census.gov has replaced American Fact Finder.)

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau

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

Ebook Central (ebrary)

ProQuest Ebook Central (formerly ebrary) provides thousands of ebooks in a broad range of subject areas, including business, technology, health and medicine, literature and the humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies. Many Ebook Central titles can be downloaded and read off-line using Adobe Digital Editions.

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

eBook Collection (EBSCO)

Search, browse, and read the complete text of thousands of ebooks. EBSCO's eBook Collection has titles from major scholarly, academic, and technical publishers such as Cambridge University Press, the University of Oklahoma Press, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, O'Reilly, and many more. Books can be downloaded for off-line reading on Windows and Macs using Adobe Digital Editions. 

Some ebooks may only allow one user to view the book at a time. eBook Collection was previously named NetLibrary.

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a multidisciplinary collection of reference ebooks. Areas of coverage include zoology, history, and the social sciences.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a subset of Google's web search which searches scholarly literature, including papers, theses, books, and reports.

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

HathiTrust Digital Library

This resource is a collection of digital ebooks created from the collections of major research libraries. Thousands of public domain works can be searched and viewed online. 

Important: Not every book in Hathi is available in full text. See the User's Guide to HathiTrust (PDF) for more information. SWOSU students and employees can request a copy of any title which is not in full text by filling out the library's interlibrary loan form.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Publisher: HathiTrust

Kanopy Streaming

Kanopy offers video streaming for thousands of films covering a wide array of subjects across the disciplines. The collection includes educational documentaries, feature films, and interviews from over 900 producers and filmmakers, including Criterion, Green Planet Films, Psychotherapy.net, BBCActive, DEFA Film Library, and Kino Lorber.

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

LibriVox Audiobooks

LibriVox makes public domain books available for free in audio format. Many LibriVox-recorded titles are also available through Project Gutenberg.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: LibriVox

MAS Complete

Designed specifically for high school teachers and students, MAS Complete covers a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to high school students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more. MAS Complete has full-text for hundreds of high school magazines and reference books, as well as photos and graphics.

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

Mergent Market Atlas

Mergent Market Atlas offers a wealth of detail on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. Use MMA to quickly access a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views and reports.

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

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 Historical, 1851–2019

Search or browse the full text of the New York Times from 1851–2019.

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

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

One Business

One Business from ProQuest offers company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit; and in-depth analyst reports from J. P. Morgan. One Business includes these resources:

  • Scholarly journal and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers.
  • Full text of the three major global business news sources: the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Financial Times.
  • A robust collection of videos, including interviews with business leaders, case studies, and training.

Read this brochure to learn more about ProQuest One Business. (PDF)

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

Open Dissertations

Open Dissertations provides citations (and, when available, full-text links) for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.

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

PapersFirst

An index to papers presented at congresses, conferences, expositions, workshops, symposia, and meetings.
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: OCLC

ProceedingsFirst

Maintained by The British Library, ProceedingsFirst provides citations for congresses, symposia, conferences, expositions, workshops, and meetings.

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

RefWorks

Sign-up for a RefWorks account. RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers and students easily gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies in standard MLA, APA, AMA, and Chicago styles. Check out these tutorials and guides that'll help you get the most out of RefWorks.

Important info about RefWorks accounts created before 1/25/2019: If you have a RefWorks account created prior to January 25th, 2019 you'll need to upgrade your legacy account to the new RefWorks. The upgrade is a simple one-time procedure which seamlessly transfers your references to the new RefWorks. See this page for instructions. To login to legacy RefWorks click here.

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

Regional Business News Plus

This database provides extensive coverage for full-text regional business publications, including Oklahoma City's The Journal Record. Researchers can access essential newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires, and videos.

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

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.

Ulrichsweb Global Periodicals Directory

Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: 1
  • Publisher: ProQuest

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