Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields of study.
This database includes bibliographic records and full text of journals related to criminal justice and criminology. Subjects covered include corrections, prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences, investigation, substance abuse, addiction, probation, and parole.
Searches articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. You can check the availability of article full text if you use our link to Google Scholar, which will ask you to log in with your OU NetID.
If you are having trouble accessing Google Scholar from our website, you can try accessing the site directly. See our guide to adding OU Libraries' resources to Google Scholar.
Full text of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Years available vary with each title, but the most recent issues available in JSTOR will be 3-5 years old.
Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative scholarship in several subject areas. Oakland has access to these subject areas: Anthropology, Cinema and Media Studies, Criminology, Ecology, Environmental Studies, Evolutionary Biology, International Relations, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Public Health, Psychology, and Sociology.
ProjectMuse provides full-text of scholarly journals and books in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.
This database provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews on social work. Includes research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including welfare services, social education and practice, community and mental health services, and health policy.
This database provides indexing and abstracts of articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers on theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Covers sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, and urban studies.
A collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research, as well as providing access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents.
ICPSR is an international consortium of academic institutions and research organizations, which provides data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR web portal provides access to a data archive on topics in the social and behavioral sciences, including specialized collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Includes survey data, census records, election returns, economic data, and legislative records.
Access to download data requires the creation of a personal accout using your Oakland email address.
This full-text database covers current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most respected scholarly law journals.
PTSDpubs is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage.
A multi-disciplinary index covering the journal literature of the social sciences. A subfile of the Web of Science database, it provides unique access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in leading social science journals.
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