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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

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.
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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: Buros Institute

Search this database for full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database contains thousands of full-text articles from over 40 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

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

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to hundreds of full-text journals. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling. P&BSC can be searched independently, but also links to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

PsycINFO indexes more than 2,500 peer-reviewed periodicals in the behavioral and social sciences. PsycINFO also indexes psychologically relevant book chapters and dissertations.

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association

R2 Digital Library hosts a selection of biomedical ebooks for pharmacy, nursing, and other health sciences. R2 offers ebooks from many leading biomedical publishers, including the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. Watch this 2-minute tutorial to get started using R2.

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  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: Rittenhouse
  • Publisher: Rittenhouse

Online access to Magill's Medical Guide. The Guide includes over one thousand entries which describe major diseases and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common surgical and nonsurgical procedures.

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

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.

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

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. 

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  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Today's Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, Today’s Science covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

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

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.

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

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.

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Each year, Annual Reviews reviews the most significant primary research to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Area of coverage include biomedicine (including pharmacy), biology, chemistry, and the social sciences.

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

This resource is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. It contains citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications. BIPNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions and lived experiences of North America's Indigenous peoples.

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Articles on bioRxiv are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.

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  • Vendor: bioRxiv
  • Publisher: bioRxiv

Consumer Health Complete provides consumer-oriented health content that's designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. It contains the full text of more than 250 health reference books and encyclopedias, as well as thousands of images and videos.

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

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides hundreds of scholarly full text journal articles focusing on nursing and other medical disciplines.

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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

Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. MEDLINE contains citations from approximately 5,600 journals published worldwide. MEDLINE Complete provides the full text of over 2,500 of these journals.

PubMed, the NLM's own MEDLINE search interface, is available here.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Subject collections include pharmacy and nursing.

When citing article manuscripts from medRxiv, note medRxiv's caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

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  • Vendor: medRxiv
  • Publisher: medRxiv

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

SAGE Business Cases offers over 3,000 peer-reviewed business case studies. Use SAGE Business Cases to:

  • Quickly and easily find authoritative cases for independent study, in-class lecture, or assigned reading.
  • Explore real-life examples of successes and failures in the global business world.
  • Develop and foster practical business decision-making and analytical skills.

Instructors: Contact Ms. Katherine Tennison for access to case study teaching notes.

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  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: SAGE
  • Publisher: SAGE

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals,

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  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

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

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