Bloom's Literature provides biographical information on authors, most studied works of literature, a Character index, featured videos, a Shakespeare Center, strategies for writing essays, resources on literary themes, poems, timelines, and well over 5,000 images.

An authoritative and refereed work focused on literary and cultural history covering all of world literature.
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Master index to major literature products produced by Gale; cross-references author names, pseudonyms, title listings.
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Provides information on thousands of poets and short story authors and their works across literary themes, forms, techniques, and movements; includes biographies, critical analyses, contextual essays, and explications of important works.
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Ebook reference titles emphasizing all key disciplines; includes images, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and handbooks.
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Various subject encyclopedias covering multiple disciplines.
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A 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.
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Basic Searching Tutorial on EBSCOhost.
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Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present; content includes book and media reviews, international perspective on topics and events, and occasional full-text of selected books.
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A comprehensive collection of academic videos curated across many disciplines such as business, theater, counseling, health, history, music and many more. Our subscription allows for limited public screenings (as long as no admission is charged and is viewed on ORU campus), includes permission for classroom showings and ability to embed into D2L. Content includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, news programs, demonstrations, raw footage, etc. More information and tutorials from ProQuest.
Link to Volume IV and to Volume V, The Symptom Media Collection of the Counseling and Therapy in Video series.
Link to more than 215 Nursing Channels.

Provides access to free, full-text, quality-controlled, peer-reviewed, research and scholarly journals; many languages and countries represented.
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Citations to journal articles and eBooks will link to full-text if ORU has access to that resource.
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Full-text content covering all aspects of humanities including articles, interviews, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, etc.
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Provides indexing for millions of dissertations, with the full-text available for immediate free download and many available for purchase in print; the official digital dissertation archive for the Library of Congress.
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Over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals covering a broad scope of disciplines. Offering scholarly and professional research in partnership with over 400 key societies.

ORU's online listing of books, ebooks, audiobooks, reference materials, faculty reserves, special collections, subscription journal titles, etc. to which ORU users have access. Entries contain bibliographic information about each entry on the Sierra system.
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Authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas.
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A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks including titles in the Christian Librarians collections.
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Direct link into the Religion Collection