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The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
- Subject area(s):
- Parks & Recreation
- Political Science
- History
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice
- Type of resource:
- Statistics & Data
This resource provides comprehensive full-text detailed “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects, as well as valuable information for facility maintainers. The content includes over 130 reference books and videos of over 100 repair projects.
- Subject area(s):
- Parks & Recreation
- Technology
Containing full text for hundreds of the most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Collection is a valuable database of information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world
- Subject area(s):
- Business
- Parks & Recreation
- Political Science
- Education
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
This resource offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. The Legal Forms by U.S. State feature makes it simple to find state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more.
- Subject area(s):
- Business
- Parks & Recreation
- Political Science
- Education
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Ebooks
Military and Government Collection provides full text from over 340 military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military, this database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 380 magazines. Some titles included are FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense.
- Subject area(s):
- Parks & Recreation
- Technology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
SocINDEX is a comprehensive sociology research database. Topics include criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, religion, social development, social psychology, social work, substance abuse and addiction, violence, and many others.
- Subject area(s):
- Parks & Recreation
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Education
- Nursing & Allied Health
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals,
- Subject area(s):
- Kinesiology
- Parks & Recreation
- Education
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Psychology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
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
- Type of resource:
- Ebooks
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
- Type of resource:
- Journals
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
- Type of resource:
- Videos
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.)
- Subject area(s):
- Business
- Political Science
- Education
- General Topics
- Parks & Recreation
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau
- Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
- Type of resource:
- Statistics & Data
ERIC is an index to thousands of education-related journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards, and guidelines. EBSCO's ERIC database includes the full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information.
- Subject area(s):
- Education
- Parks & Recreation
All citations with an ERIC number which begin with the letters ED (i.e. ERIC document) are available on microfiche in the Weatherford library.
ERIC without EBSCO's supplemental material is available to everyone via the U.S. Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Use Health Source: Consumer Edition to search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
- Subject area(s):
- Kinesiology
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Parks & Recreation
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Sociological Collection provides full-text articles from hundreds of scholarly journals which examine a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology and its related disciplines. Topics covered include social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure, and more.
- Subject area(s):
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Education
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Parks & Recreation
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
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
- Type of resource:
- Statistics & Data