Library Databases

Application created for the general public to provide broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs. Information is available for over 900 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the 2010 version of the Standard Occupational Classification system.

O*NET OnLine offers a variety of search options and occupational data, while My Next Move is a streamlined application for students and job seekers. Both applications were developed for the U.S. Department of Labor by the National Center for O*NET Development.

Service Provider: U.S. Department of Labor / Employment and Training Administration

Contains millions of records representing open access digital resources [scanned books, journal articles, newspapers and manuscripts, digital text, audio files (.wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (.jpg, .tif, .gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information) and theses and research papers] covering a variety of disciplines.

These records have been harvested from archival collections built by more than 2,000 contributors worldwide. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Service Provider: OCLC

Use this search portal to locate quality online publications, reports, and books from a number of open access collections, including those listed below.

• BioMed Cent
• arXiv
• DataCite
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• HathiTrust
• Project Gutenberg
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
• Institutional Repositories at Harvard, Iowa State, University of California system, and many others.

Service Provider: Texas A&M University Libraries

Leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All e-books on this platform are available full text in open access formats (PDF, HTML and XML).

This non-profit, UK-based social enterprise is run by academics and is committed to making high-quality research available to every reader.

Service Provider: Open Book Publishers

A collaborative open source initiative of the Internet Archive, this universal catalog provides links to eBooks in the Internet Archive’s collections.

A free Internet Archive or Open Library account is required to borrow the free eBooks.

Open Library helps users find physical books to borrow from libraries near and around them by linking to WorldCat for any editions for which an ISBN or an OCLC identifier is present.

Service Provider: Internet Archive

Part of the Open Society Foundations, the Justice Initiative was established in 2003 to provide expert legal support for Open Society’s broader mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work.

This database provides full text access to the Open Society Justice Initiative’s body of work, which includes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.

Service Provider: HeinOnline

Free, public map-based toolset that allows users to search for cross-sections, charts, tables, figures, and data from GeoScienceWorld publications.

Service Provider: GeoScienceWorld

This non-profit foundation located in Eugene, Oregon, cooperates with colleges and universities throughout the world to make available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance.

The intellectual focus of the collection is physical activity. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, sports pedagogy, sports psychology, and tests and measurements.

Service Provider: OregonPDF in Health & Performance

Primary search tool for Department of Energy science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.

This site also provides information about the Office of Scientific and Technical Information and its other search tools, services, and operations.

Service Provider: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

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.

Service Provider: Oxford University Press