The SNU Library in the R.T. Williams Learning Resources Center offers database access to the student body and faculty of Southern Nazarene University. Some of these links will open in a new window, so be sure pop-up blocking software is not preventing them from opening properly. The databases we currently offer are:
- A-to-Z
Links periodical titles to databases where they are located. Includes SNU Library's print and electronic periodical collections.
- American Chemical Society Journals
Provides access to over 30 peer-reviewed journals and magazines, 90,000 pages of additional material culled from the Web, and searchable access to 3 million pages of original chemistry dating back to 1879.
- Biblical Archeology Society: Online Archive
BAS online archive contains all of the editorial content of Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975-present. Bible Review and Archaeology Odyssey as well as five of BAS's best-selling books.
- Biography Reference Bank
A database containing biographical information on nearly half a million people. The database contains full-text articles from many biographical reference books, millions of magazine citations (many of which are full-text), and thousands of links to book review citations.
- Books in Print
A professional bibliographic database with reviews of more than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, book, audio book, and video titles.
- Classical Music Library
This database contains over 50,000 recordings of classical music for listening and searching.
- Credo Reference
Credo Reference now has over 300 full-text reference titles available and over the past year, such as the Marquis Who's Who titles, The Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by McGraw Hill, the following new titles from Wiley: The Encyclopedia of Computer Science, The Computer Graphics Companion, The Capstone Encyclopedia of Business, 3 great new literature titles from Continuum, 4 great new American History Reader's Companion titles from Houghton Mifflin, and many more! Credo includes downloadable video clips.
- EBSCOhost
A collection of databases providing access to thousands of publications such as journals, book reviews, monographs, digests, pamphlets, books, biographies, primary source documents, reference books, photos, maps, magazines and periodicals. Topics covered include religion, nursing, clinical pharmacology, animals, education, consumer health, various medical disciplines, literature, military, government, psychology, business, music literature, sport and fitness, social, political and economic issues and much more.
- Encyclopædia Britannica
The complete Encyclopædia Britannica Online plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopædia, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Britannica includes downloadable video clips.
- Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
A free online resource published by the Oklahoma Historical Society during the State's Centennial.
- FirstSearch
Provides access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles. Includes listings in the SNU and area library catalogs.
- History database is now accessed through EBSCOHost (above)
- Hoover's
A database containing business-related information on over 12 million companies with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.
- JSTOR
This database provides access to scholarly journals covering, but not limited to, such topics as art and art history, biological sciences, education, philosophy, political science, and sociology.
- Literature Resource Center
This database contains sections that focus on biographical information, overviews, and literary criticism and reviews for over 130,000 writers from numerous disciplines. Includes Children's Literature Review.
- NetLibrary
Access SNU’s eContent collection which contains the digital versions of books, journals, and database content.
- Newspaper Source has been chosen by the State to replace NewsBank. It is accessed through EBSCOhost (above).
- Oklahoma Online
Access to American Indian Materials, Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Science and Technology.
- Oxford Music Online
Formerly Grove Music Online. This database provides access to: The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music
- Oxford Reference Online
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press as well as the Oxford Companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quote. Now includes Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, and Encyclopedia of Social Work.
- Psychiatry Online
Contains 14 reference books, including DSM-IV-TR, Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, Casebook and its Treatment, APA Practice Guidelines, AP Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, etc.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (In the library only)
Contains information on 27,000 voyages of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas that occurred from 1585-1866.
- The Tulsa World Archives
The Tulsa World archives from 1989-present.
- WorldCat
Search the holdings of other libraries.
- World Fact Book (CIA)
Detailed statistics about and tools for analysis and display of the countries of the world.