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Databases A - Z
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| OAIster | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Union catalog of digital resources. Contains digital resources from open archive collections including: digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets. |
| Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: In the wake of growing concern over limited natural resources, scientists and engineers are increasingly turning to the sea for answers. ASFA 2 is the source that puts professionals in touch with effective management solutions, alerts them to problems, and updates them on new legislation that affects management practices. Coverage spans the wide-ranging fields of oceanography: physical, descriptive, dynamical, chemical, geological, and biological aspects are extensively examined, as well as limnology, ocean engineering, and specific resources. From international policy and legislation to meteorology and climatology to technology and engineering, ASFA 2 covers the crucial current issues. |
| Oceanic Abstracts | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The journal has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The journal focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This journal is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. |
| Office of Scientific and Technical Information | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Search collections of research results, including those produced throughout the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory complex and by Departmental grantees. Find current and legacy research results, search ongoing research and development project descriptions, browse scientific subject portals of interest, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, sign up for alerts, search science conference papers and proceedings, connect with the national laboratory education sites, identify scientific associations of interest, and much more. |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Ebsco's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Full Text. Descriptions for each of these databases are listed alphabetically on this list.
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| Oncogenes & Growth Factors Abstracts | Medicine & Health Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: The discovery of oncogenes in the late 1970s represented a primary breakthrough in unraveling the mechanisms that cause cancerous cell growth- and this journal enables scientists to keep abreast of both experimental and clinical literature focusing on mechanisms of oncogenes and growth factors. Conceived by two NIH scientist, Oncogenes and Growth FactorsAbstracts covers every aspect of oncogene research into the molecular basis of malignant transformations. This journal will prove indispensable in suggesting new directions for research and helping scientists avoid dead ends or costly duplication of work. A necessity for molecular biologists researching cell growth and oncogenesis, Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts will also be valuable to researchers in immunology, virology, bacteriology, genetics, and other related fields.
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| Opposing Viewpoints | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. |
| OSTI (Office of Science & Technical Info.) | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Search collections of research results, including those produced throughout the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory complex and by Departmental grantees. Find current and legacy research results, search ongoing research and development project descriptions, browse scientific subject portals of interest, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, sign up for alerts, search science conference papers and proceedings, connect with the national laboratory education sites, identify scientific associations of interest, and much more. |
| Ovid | Medicine & Health Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Access to the full text of Your Journals@Ovid, journals to which FAMU has subscribed, plus all of the bibliographic citations, references, and abstracts in the Journals@Ovid database, an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Journals@Ovid offers coverage from 1996 to the present for many journals, and the coverage of some journals dates back as far as 1993. more...
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| Ovid Nursing Database | Medicine & Health Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Access to 33 research and 12 practitioner-oriented nursing journals covering 1995-present.
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| Oxford English Dictionary Online | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. |
| Oxford Journals Online | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press. The library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site.
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| Oxford Music Online | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Oxford Music Online includes Grove Music Online, which includes The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006), both titles supplementing Grove's more extensive coverage with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. In addition, a robust new linking program features improved and expanded links to sound examples via partnerships with Classical Music Library and DRAM, as well as links to the RILM database of music bibliography. Grove Music Online articles also feature biographical linking to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for mutual subscribers to both, and a host of tools and resources, including timelines and topical guides. |
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