Guest Databases beginning with "O" or "P"
Alphabetical list of databases:
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I-J-K
L
M
N
O-P
Q
R-S
T
U-V
W-X-Y
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Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked "IN LIBRARY USE ONLY"
can be searched
exclusively from the Public Access/Gov Docs computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
| Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) | Discover and use the scientific and technical information resources of the Department of Energy in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas. |  |
Gov |
| O*Net | Database from the Labor Dept. Gives information on job and worker characteristics and occupations. Includes career exploration and assessment tools. | |
Gov |
| Oxford English Dictionary
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Principal dictionary of record for the English language, an authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. | |
Oxford University Press |
| PAIS International
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Includes materials in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings, and links to web resources and publisher websites | |
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
| Physical Education Index
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Abstracts covering a wide range of physical education - related subjects including dance, health, kinesiology, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports, and sports medicine | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
| Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
The archive includes all of APS journal content from the first volume (1893 for Physical Review, 1958 for Physical Review Letters and 1929 for Reviews of Modern Physics) to 1999 | |
American Physical Society |
| Polling Report | An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion | |
Free |
| Pre-CINAHL
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL. | EBSCOhost |
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| Primary Search
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
PNAS publishes research reports (describing the results of original research of exceptional importance), commentaries (which call attention to papers of particular note and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), perspectives (presenting a viewpoint on an important area of research and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), and colloquium papers (reports of scientific colloquia held under Academy auspices) on a broad array of scientific topics. | |
National Academy Of Sciences |
| Professional Development Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Project MUSE
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Offers full-text, online access to over 200 essential periodicals in the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences. | |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| PsycARTICLES
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber in both HTML and PDF formats. These journals cover general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. | |
EBSCOhost |
| PsycINFO
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law | |
EBSCOhost |
| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily. | |
EBSCOhost |
| PubMed Central | Digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). | |
Gov |