Journals

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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This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) documents the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction and provide access to the most comprehensive digital collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.

• Subject area(s):
• History
• Language & Literature
• Political Science

Access  to the full text of ACS journal publications from the date of first publication to the present. Each journal also provides a RSS feed for each issue's contents.

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• Chemistry
• Pharmacy
• Physics

From the publisher: "The Annals is an independent, peer-reviewed medical journal that advances pharmacotherapy throughout the world by publishing evidence-based articles on practice, research, and education."

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

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.

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• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Psychology

This resource provides full text and indexing to major periodicals for art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general researchers. Art and Architecture Complete also provides 150+ full text books. Use this database to research antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more.

• Subject area(s):
• Art
• Music

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

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• General Topics

Search article preprints that have been submitted for comment and review among peers, for publication in journals, and prior to presentation at conferences. Coverage areas include physics, mathematics, and computer science. Note that preprints in arXiv have not been peer-reviewed.

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• Physics
• Computer Science
• Mathematics

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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• History
• Political Science
• Business
• Language & Literature
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Psychology

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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• Biology
• Chemistry
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Psychology

BIOSIS Previews abstracts and indexes information in biology, biochemistry, and the life sciences from more than 5,500 sources around the world, including journal articles, meeting and conference reports, books, and patents.

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• Biology
• Chemistry

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Business Source Premier covers accounting, finance, banking, marketing, management and many other business topics. BSP contains thousands of full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers. In addition, BSP has case studies, country economic reports, company profiles, and videos from leaders and analysts from a wide range of industries.

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• Business
• Technology

CINAHL Complete is an index of virtually all English-language nursing journals. This includes publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, as well as primary journals from allied health disciplines. More than 1,300 of the journals indexed in CIHAHL Complete are available in full text.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

Clase indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periódica covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offer access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

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• Language & Literature

A Cochrane Collection resource, Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) provides a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from the Cochrane Collection's systematic reviews. Clinical Answers' intent is to provide clinicians with actionable knowledge and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to 'drill down' to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

The CDSR is the leading resource for systematic reviews in healthcare.  Each Cochrane Review is peer reviewed. Currently, there are over 5,000 full-text reviews covering a wide range of healthcare research questions. Click the "More" tab above to view the full list of Cochrane Collection databases.

A good starting point for exploring the Cochrane Collection is Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA), a resource which applies the CDSR's systematic reviews to relevant clinical questions.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

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.

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• Communication & Theater
• Business
• Language & Literature

Computer Source provides the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database features hundreds of full-text periodicals covering market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet.

• Subject area(s):
• Business
• Computer Science
• Technology

This resource covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

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• Computer Science
• Technology
• Business
• Mathematics

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.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Psychology

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.

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• General Topics

The DPLA brings together digitized works from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes these materials freely available. Use the DPLA to find written works (including articles, books, and plays), photographs, videos, sound recordings, and data sets.

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• History
• Language & Literature

This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

• Subject area(s):
• Education
• Language & Literature

Environment Complete covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Full text for hundreds of journals and over 200 monographs is included.

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• Biology
• Business
• Technology

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.

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• Education
• Parks & Recreation

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.

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• Education
• General Topics
• History
• Language & Literature
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Communication & Theater
• Nursing & Allied Health

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

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• General Topics

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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• Biology
• Business
• Technology

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.

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• Kinesiology
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Parks & Recreation

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

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Kinesiology
• Pharmacy
• Psychology

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Historical Abstracts indexes historical articles from thousands of journals and provides the full text of over 300 journals.

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• History
• Political Science

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.

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• Art
• Communication & Theater
• Education
• Music
• Technology

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.

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• Parks & Recreation
• Technology

Hospital Pharmacy is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on medication errors, adverse reaction reporting, formulary drug reviews, original research, current FDA-related drug information, off-label drug uses, new technology, and other topics of special relevance to practicing pharmacists.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

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.

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• Education
• General Topics
• Language & Literature
• Art
• Communication & Theater
• History
• Mathematics
• Music
• Political Science
• Psychology

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

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• Business
• Parks & Recreation
• Political Science
• Education

LISTA (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts) provides wide coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more from journals, books, research reports, and proceedings.

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• Education

LRS is a comprehensive literary reference database which provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRS 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 LRS.

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• Language & Literature
• Communication & Theater

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.

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• Education
• General Topics
• Language & Literature

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.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Kinesiology
• Psychology

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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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Psychology

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After you register, Medscape automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site based on your registration profile.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

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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• Education
• Psychology
• Nursing & Allied Health

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.

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• Parks & Recreation
• Technology

This resource is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

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• Language & Literature

This resource provides information about the journals and series on the MLA International Bibliography's Master List of Periodicals.

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• Language & Literature

This collection provides more than 1.8 million pages of original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the 18th through the 20th century. The collection includes treaties, agreements, and correspondence indexed by date, place, and tribe.

• Subject area(s):
• History
• Political Science

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.

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• Business
• General Topics
• Political Science

This web-based search service from the UK's National Health Service provides easy access to high quality clinical and non-clinical information about health and social care.

Also see NHS Guidance, which searches a database of practice guidelines from the UK, and optionally, the US and other countries.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

As one of the world's largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results, NTRL offers fast and easy access to more than 2.2 million titles, with links to over 700,000 digitized full-text technical reports. (Note: You must register to view digitized NTRL reports. Registration is free.)

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• Technology
• Chemistry
• Physics

The Oklahoma Folklore Collection is the result of an effort by the Metropolitan Library System in the late 1940's and early 1950's to collect and preserve the stories, memories, and songs that make up Oklahoma's rich folk tradition. You'll find stories, songs, letters, interviews, poems, sheet music, brochures, and much more that bring to light Oklahoma's history as it was being created. Along with the transcribed documents you'll find images of the original documents.

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• History
• Language & Literature

Access early Oklahoma newspapers, thousands of historic public records, photos, oral histories, and highlights from the video archives of television stations WKY, KTVY, and KFOR.

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• History

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)

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• Business
• Computer Science
• General Topics
• Technology

Search and browse the full-text of over 160 peer-reviewed journals in healthcare, including the areas of nursing, pharmacy, and health information management.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

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• General Topics

Pharmacist's Letter covers new developments in drug therapy and trends in pharmacy practice.

• Pharmacy students: Click here for a free subscription.
• College of Pharmacy faculty: Contact the Office of Experiential Education for access.

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• Pharmacy

Pharmacotherapy publishes original clinically relevant research complemented by evidence-based reviews about drugs and therapeutics.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Poetry and Short Story Reference Source 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.

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• Language & Literature
• Communication & Theater

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

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• General Topics

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.

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• Psychology
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health

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.

• Subject area(s):
• Education
• Psychology
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

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

• Subject area(s):
• Psychology
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health

PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and much more. PubChem's data comes from government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and other sources.

• Subject area(s):
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Pharmacy
• Technology

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.

• Subject area(s):
• Business
• General Topics

With hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, Religion and Philosophy Collection provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

• Subject area(s):
• History
• Language & Literature

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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• Business
• Technology
• Psychology

First-time users: Registration with your SWOSU email address is required – click here.

CAS SciFinderⁿ is the latest scientific information solution from the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFinderⁿ includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more in an easy-to-use interface.

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• Chemistry
• Biology
• Pharmacy
• Technology

Small Business Reference Center provides up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a business. SBRC includes ebooks, full-text periodicals, and over 170 videos on creating and maintaining a successful business.

• Subject area(s):
• Business

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.

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• Parks & Recreation
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health

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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• Political Science
• Psychology
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Parks & Recreation

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

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• Kinesiology
• Parks & Recreation
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Psychology

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.

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• Biology
• Chemistry
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Physics
• Psychology
• Technology
• Education
• General Topics

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.

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• General Topics
• Language & Literature

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. TRIP strives to offer healthcare professionals a complete and updated list of online resources useful for evidence-based practice.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

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.

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• General Topics

UpToDate is a clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 200 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. The content is peer reviewed and fully referenced.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

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.

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• General Topics
• Language & Literature