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OACIS for the Middle East
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East maintained by Yale University.


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OAIster
Search for full text collections of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.


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Obituary Daily Times
The Obituary Daily Times is an index of published obituaries across the world. Updated daily.


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Occupational Safety and Health Standards
Provides a comprehensive resource for current United States OSHA standards and compliance-related information.


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Ocean Drilling Program Database
This database contains over 18,000 citations related to Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) research.


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ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
ODLIS includes not only the terminology of the various specializations within library science and information studies but also the vocabulary of publishing, printing, binding, the book trade, graphic arts, book history, literature, bibliography, telecommunications, and computer science.


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OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
The OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms contains a comprehensive set of definitions of the main data items collected by the OECD. The Glossary also contains definitions of key terminology and concepts and commonly used acronyms.


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Official Documents of the United Nations
ODS contains the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents, including preliminary (masthead) versions of resolutions and decisions.


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Official Statistics on the Web - OFFSTATS
Browse by country, region or topic for statistics from official sources found on the web. Includes links for demographic, economic, and industry data.


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OneLook® Dictionary Search
This Web site will search other dictionary Web sites for the entered term. User may use wildcard patterns to search. A "reverse dictionary" provides words which possibly match a user-input definition.


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Online Archive of California
Contains about 1,000 texts, including transcripts of oral histories, personal narratives, letters, press releases, newspaper articles, and other types of documents.


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Online Books Page
Searchable list of more than 19,000 books that are freely readable over the Internet.


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Online Geographical Bibliography
Search for books and articles from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library.


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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
ONIM is a catalog of essays reviewing human genetic traits that follow classical Mendelian inheritance patterns.


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OpCit Project
The Open Citation Project provides reference linking and citation analysis for open archives. Contains general and specialized lists of open access eprint (full-text) archives.


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Open Humanities Press
OHP peer reviewed publications cover all areas in the humanities.


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Open Worldcat
Contains the collective records of books, periodicals, maps, scores, films, recordings, websites, and other materials cataloged by over 41,000 member libraries.


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Openj-gate : Database for Open Access Journals
Provides access to more than 3,000 full text open access journals available on the Internet.


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OpenSIGLE System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
Locate research results originating in the International Conference Series on Gray Literature.


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Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI)
The OVI database contains over 1,800 vernacular texts, the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death.


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Oral History OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Oral History Online provides indexing to almost 2,000 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.


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ORB Encyclopedia for Medieval Studies
Browsable full text encyclopedia of the middle ages focusing on the Early, High, and Late periods as well as sections on medieval Slavic/Russian, religion, languages and linguistics, and culture.


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Organic Eprints
Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.


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Osterreichische Historische Bibliographie
The OHB (Austrian Historical Bibliography) is a bibliography of historical literature published in Austrian books, periodicals, festschriften and dissertations since 1965 and relating primarily to Austrian history. Language: German.


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OTA Archive
Contains the complete collection of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) publications.


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Our Roots : Canadian Local Histories Database
Contains hundreds of Canadian local histories and records.


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Oxford African American Studies CenterON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience.


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Oxford Art OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Formerly Grove Art Online, the database contains over 45,000 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols) on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.


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Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped Britain's past.


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Oxford English DictionaryON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The OED is an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.


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Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
OxLAD contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000.


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Oxford Music OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes Grove Music Online, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).


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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social SciencesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.


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Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & ScienceON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.


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Oxford Scholarship OnlineON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 1,100 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.


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OYEZ
A multimedia database about the United States Supreme Court. Includes audio files of oral arguments (more than 2,000 hours), abstracts of key constitutional cases, and information on Supreme Court justices.


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