Full Text
Use the databases below to find articles, essays, book reviews, conference papers and more in scholarly journals and magazines. Some databases may include book chapters.
Note: If full text links, such as HTML or PDF, are not available in the database article citation, look for a "Check for Full Text" (or similar) link to see if the article is available elsewhere in the Library.
Core Databases
- Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline; linked full-text when available; title list is available.
- Social & Behavioral Sciences Journal Collection (ScienceDirect) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text from journals and reference works related to the social & behavioral sciences. opens new windowTIP: Use advanced search to specify one or more pieces of information (e.g., keywords, authors, dates, etc.) to search and find documents.
- Sociological Collection This link opens in a new windowCovers a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology and its related disciplines including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more.
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexing and abstracts by the National Association of Social Workers dealing with all aspects of social work, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and problems; linked full-text when available.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowA full-text sociology research database indexing journals, books, working papers, dissertations, conference proceedings; subjects cover criminology, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, criminal justice, social development, religion, substance abuse, and much more.
- SAGE Premier This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of journals related to and including contemporary sociology, comparative sociology, ethnic studies, family studies, consumer culture, and many others. On Advanced Search page: Select "Only content I have full access to" for ORU journals.
Related Databases
- EagleSearch This link opens in a new windowThis "discovery tool" provides access to the majority of ORU resources through a single entry point. Searches multiple databases across formats and media. Use advanced search to select disciplines.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database with book reviews, images, and some books with full-text. Areas covered include biology, chemistry, mathematics, multicultural studies, sciences, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies and more.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowProvides in-depth coverage of current issues related to health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGo to Settings. Click Library links in the left menu, and key in Oral Roberts University. When you are logged in to ORU Off Campus Access, the results in Google Scholar will provide a link to the article, if it is available full-text in the library. To set up an alert: Perform a search. In the left menu, click Create alert, enter your email, select number of results, and then click Create Alert.
- ProCon.org This link opens in a new window
- APA PsycArticles® This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations; includes all aspects of psychology, behavioral and social sciences.
- APA PsycInfo® This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology, ninety-nine percent of which is peer-reviewed.
- PTSDpubs This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Subjects include prevention, treatment, public policy, professional ethics, and more; linked full-text when available.
Medical & Health Databases
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- BioMed Central276 peer-reviewed open access journals related to science, technology and medicine
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowUse CINAHL Headings for subject searches.Tutorials: opens new windowBasic searching (3.16 mins.) | opens new windowAdvanced searching (3.46 mins.)
- Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new windowConsumer-oriented health content; full text for 500+ journals and magazines; full text for hundreds of health reference books and encyclopedias; consumer pamphlets; physician-generated videos; animations with audio narration.
- Health & Life Sciences Journal Collection (ScienceDirect) This link opens in a new window
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowFull text, abstracts, and indexing of health/medical related scholarly journals
- Ovid Core Nursing Collection This link opens in a new windowFull text of selected nursing journals; access to tables of contents, bibliographic citations, abstracts, and references of thousands of scientific, technical, and medical journals. To limit a search to journals subscribed to by the ORU Library, select Your Ovid Core Nursing Collection. Use Ovid Core Nursing Collection Full Text for all Ovid journals. See: Ovid opens new windowTutorials & short Demos.
- MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowIndexing for 5,600+ biomedical journals; full text for 1,450+ journals, including ~600 unique journals not found with full text in Academic Search Complete or Health Source; indexed with the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
- PLOS MedicineOpen access, peer-reviewed research database.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowOpen access of full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.