Databases A-Z
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Open Book Publishers
One of the largest independent Open Access publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All the books are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors.
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Open Dissertations
An open access database of electronic theses and dissertations which offers access to more than 800,000 ETDs, including those previously available in American Doctoral Dissertations™. It provides electronic access to a comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities and increasingly dissertations from select colleges and universities around the world. Citations include a link to access the full text, when available, via the Institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.
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Open Grey : System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
Open Grey is a free database of bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature produced in Europe. Topics include pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities.
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Open Library of the Humanities
A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.
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Open Society Justice Initiative
The Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Foundations, 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.
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Open Vault: WGBH Media Library and Archives
Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important video content produced by public television station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools. Topics covered in the videos include the arts, business, education, humanities, Massachusetts, science and technology, and social sciences. -
Open-i : Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
Open-i is an experimental multimedia search engine that retrieves and displays structured MEDLINE citations augmented by image-related text and concepts and linked to images based on image features.
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OpenEdition
Searching, with full-text access to hundreds of open access journals in French, covering the humanities and social sciences.
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Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.
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OpinionArchives.com
OpinionArchives provides an electronic archives and some fulltext of 17 leading journals of opinion, politics, arts, history and culture. These primary source materials are invaluable for political science, literature, and other humanities and social sciences studies. Indexing reaches back to the first issues of the indexed publications. JHU subscription provides access to: Commentary Magazine only.
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Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA)
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive was created by UCSF and Johns Hopkins University in 2021. It preserves and provides permanent public access to previously-internal corporate documents released from opioid litigation and other sources. The documents shed light on the opioid industry during the height of the U.S. opioid crisis. -
Optica Publishing Group
The Optical Publishing Group, formerly Optics InfoBase, is a web-based repository of optics research with added services to meet the individual subscriber's needs.
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Oral History Online
Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection provides keyword searching of almost 281,000 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. -
Orchestral Music Online
Daniels' Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works. -
OSTI.gov
Science, technology, and engineering research information funded by the Department of Energy (DOE). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
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Otzar Hahochma
Online library of Judaic books, containing over 41,500 books (seforim). The database includes scanned books and manuscript encompassing all realms of Judaism, from ancient times to the modern period: basic works in all Torah and Judaic fields, from Chazal to modern day sources, commentaries to the Bible, Mishnah and Talmud, works in Jewish philosophy and mussar; in addition to books on Jewish history and Jewish communities, Hebrew language and grammar, encyclopedia's etc. Only one person at a time can use this resource. -
Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic, Oxford University Press (OUP)’s platform for research, offers a single point of entry for access to scholarly and academic books and journals. Please note that JHU does not subscribe to all content.
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Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. Over 1,000 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and over 100 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content. And over 100 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.Core content: Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
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Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth. -
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Subscription includes subject bibliographies on: African Studies, Chinese Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, American Literature, Atlantic History, British & Irish Literature, Medieval Studies, Military History, Philosophy, Renaissance & Reformation, and Urban Studies.