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America: History and Life (ABC-CLIO)
An index to journal articles written about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.  The database comprises almost 400,000 citations taken from over 2,000 key historical journals (including state and local history journals, such as the Chronicles of Oklahoma).

Bibliography of Native North Americans
This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
  • Index only

CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
CQ Researcher is a resource for in-depth analytical reports on current and controversial issues. CQ Researcher's reports provide balanced, objective, forward-looking information that's written to encourage reader discussion, critical thinking, and facilitate further research. Each report gives the reader a broad overview of the issue, including the historical background and a discussion of current controversies and initiatives.

Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale Reference)
This resource contains over 21,000 articles that provide an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge. Entries chronicle Jewish history, archaeology, literature, culture, theology, and practice from the distant past to the present. The Encyclopaedia includes extensive entries on Holocaust studies, the Bible, women's studies, Jewish mysticism, and social history.

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History Resource Center: United States
This resource provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

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History Resource Center: World
This resource is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

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Issues and Controversies (FACTS.com)
Issues and Controversies provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. 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.

JSTOR Journal Archive
JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

LexisNexis Academic
LN Academic provides searchable access to a wide spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

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  • Full text and index

Military and Government Collection
This resource 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 Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense.

New York Times, 1851–2004
Search or browse the full text of the New York Times from 1851–2004.

Oklahoma Periodicals Index
The Oklahoma Periodicals Index provides a searchable online index to articles about people, places, history, culture, wildlife, and natural history in the state of Oklahoma with some coverage outside the state. The index consists of four key periodicals: The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Today, Outdoor Oklahoma, and Persimmon Hill.

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Oxford Reference Online Premium (including Literature and Western Civilization Collections)
This resource contains titles from the Oxford Companion series, as well as
 · 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

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Project Muse
Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

SocINDEX with Full Text
his resource is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. SocINDEX contains full-text for 428 core coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,700 conference papers.

TOPICsearch (EBSCOhost)
This database contains articles from more than 2,700 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.

Wilson Biographies Illustrated (EBSCOhost)
This database contains more than 120,000 biographies of famous and notable people. Approximately one-quarter of the biographies include photos or illustrations. The database contains the full text from more than 100 full reference series of biographical reference books, including Current Biography, World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, and American Reformers.

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Social Science Net Resources
A directory of social science-related Internet sites.

Social Work Net Resources
A directory of social work-related Internet sites.