ORU Library Catalog

Includes records on all types of library materials, including books, in-house journals, videos, DVDs, audiobooks, and ebooks, with links to the ebook full text.

 

Search options include: title, author, subject, keyword, reserve materials by professor or course, and more. When you find an item in the catalog, record the location, call number and status so that you can find it in the library.

 

 

• To access your library account to renew books online, check your due dates, update your library profile, and more, use the My Library, My Account link. Enter your name and the barcode at the bottom of your student ID.
   
• To refine your search results 1) use alternative search fields, such as author or subject, 2) limit the resource types--DVD, ebooks, Reference, etc.--or 3) use the sort feature. More
   
• To create a list of records use the Book Cart button. Then, to view your list of records click View Saved at the top of the page. Click the Extended Display button at the top to get the call number, library location and status so that you can find the item in the library.

The ORU Library subscribes to several ebook collections that provide access to more than 80,000 ebooks. eBrary and eBook Collection are the two main ebook databases. Each ebook collection contains unique titles and are not merely digitized versions of print books in the Library.

The ebook titles and records are in the ORU Library Catalog, with links to the ebook, so you can search the library catalog to find and access ebooks, or select and search an ebook collection.

Click to see how to find an ebook in the ORU Library catalog and follow the links.

Type your search. Change View Entire Collection to Ebooks > click Search.

From the list of results, click a book title to view the full (long) record.

Click the View content of ...E-book link to access the ebook. Another window opens either NetLibrary or ebrary database and brings up the book with its full content.

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ebrary

More than 70,000 academic ebooks from scholarly and professional publishers. ~110 Encyclopedias | ~230 Dictionaries

Quick Start Guide |Tutorial | apps (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) | Download options

View search strategies

To search the entire collection, type a simple search or click "Advanced" for multiple field and text box options.
To browse and/or search by specific subject area use the "All Subjects" link at the top of the ebrary page.
To narrow your title results list click a subject, or several subjects, at the top of the page.
To open the ebook, click the title or book jacket image.
To view the most relevant chapters from all the books, click the Chapter Results tab next to the Title Results tab.
To use the Text-to-speech function: After you have found a book, click the ebrary Reader button to open a book in ebrary's reader. Choose the "Speech" tab. Highlight text to be read or just click the "Read the selected text button" for the page to be read.

View ebrary's Free "Open Access" Collections

• Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center
• Cyberbullying Searchable Information Center

• East Texas Baptist University’s Bible Study Guide Commentary Series - Includes Bible commentaries and study aids in English, Russian, and other languages

• Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center

• Library and KM Center – Includes e-books from leading publishers subsidized by ebrary. Also includes a collection from Dr. Allen McKiel, Dean of Library and Media Services at Western Oregon University including his book Beyond tolerance: religion and global community

• H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center

eBook Collection

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition EBSCO (~1,300 ebooks)

Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition EBSCO (~2,450 ebooks)

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition EBSCO (~3,100 ebooks)

Books@OVID

19 full-text ebooks related to nursing and the nursing profession. More

eReference materials include online full text handbooks, specialized encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, atlases, and other sources. They provide objective background information, quick facts, statistics, biographies, and more. To find a reference title, search the ORU library catalog and limit your results to reference or search one of ORU's reference databases listed below.

Sample eReference Titles:

Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices Publication Year: 2010	Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 5 vols. Publication Year: 2004	An Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History Publication Year: 2009

 

Reference databases below marked with have broad coverage and are excellent resources to begin researching your topic.

Biography in Context

600,000+ biographies covering 525,000+ individuals throughout history. More

CollegeSource Online

"65,166 digital college catalogs, institution profiles, transcript keys," and more.

CountryWatch

"Political & Economic Intelligence, Analysis, Forecasts & News Across the Globe." 192 countries as well as many non-sovereign nations. More

CQ Researcher - advanced search

In-depth coverage of current issues related to health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. More

Credo Reference

Training Videos: Using the Concept Map | Using Find a Book | Keyword Searching | Advanced Searching

Encyclopædia Britannica

Summary and in-depth articles on every branch of human knowledge; includes biographies, maps, photos, drawings, flags, audio/video clips, and Web sites. More

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Over tens of thousands of encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keyword and covering a variety of subject areas; updated annually. More

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Includes:
• Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2d ed., 22 vol., 2007
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d ed., 10 vol., 2006
• The Encyclopedia of Political Science, 5 vols., 2005
• Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d ed., 15 vol. 2005
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4 vol., 2005
• Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2d ed., 5 vol., 2001
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 4th ed., 6 vol., 2008
• International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, 2d ed., 4 vol., 2003
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2d ed., 9 vol., 2008 s
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2d ed., 15 vol., 2003, and supplements (2001, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 6 vol., 20

Literary Encyclopedia

Focuses on literature originally written in English or translated into English; authoritative summaries written by 1,500+ experts; edited by a scholarly board. (requires individual registration using ORU email) More

Literary Reference Center

Full text for 34,000+ plot summaries, 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 179,000+ author biographies, 450 literary journals, 675,000+ book reviews, 74,000 poems, 18,000 short stories, and 6,100+ author interviews. More

Includes:
• Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism
• The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story,
• Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
• Magill's Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature
• Masterplots, 4th ed.
• Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
• The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

MLA Directory of Periodicals

Detailed information about the journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography; includes editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines. More

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present— from across the English-speaking world. More

Points of View Reference Center

Provides essays that present multiple sides of 270+ current issues, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. More

Serials Directory

Access to accurate bibliographic information; includes current pricing structures for periodicals. More

TOPICsearch

Current events information; social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics; full text articles from diverse sources. More

WorldAlmanac

Includes: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, The World Almanac Knowledge Source, and Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. More

Other samples of eReference:

• Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2010 Ebook Collections
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2011 Free on the Web
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Ebook Collections
• Oxford English Dictionary Online, 2011 Free on the Web
• World Almanacs -- Includes: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids FirstSearch

Books and other materials in the ORU library are primarily organized using Library of Congress (LC) call numbers, a classification system according to subject. Books about similar subjects will have a similar call number. So, once you locate a book on the shelves, books to the right and left may also be of interest to you.

There are 21 major subject categories, or divisions, in the LC call number system, represented by English letters.

The first letter of the call number represents a major category or subject. For example:
B—Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, and Theology

The second letter of a call number represents the specific sub-section within the general subject area. For example, materials with call numbers beginning with "BR" are on the subject of Church History, a subdivision under B (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion...)

The first and second letters of a call number represent only the first line on the call number label. Additional numbers and letters that further define a book are usually included in the call number.

For more detailed lists see:
• Modified LC Classification Outline as used by ORU
• Complete Library of Congress Classification Outline

TIP: How to browse titles in a specific call number section in ebrary (ebooks):

Use Advanced search.
Change Search in menu to LC Call Number.
Type the call numbers.
Click Search ebrary.
It's like browsing virtual ebrary shelves.
(Refer to LC outlines.)

Each item in the ORU Library has its own unique call number on a label that is usually taped on the spine of the book (or other item).

Search the Library Catalog to Get a Book's Call Number
To find an item in the library you need to know its call number. If you have a topic, or know the author's name or part of a title you can do a Keyword, Author, or Title Keyword search, respectively.

Try a search

Library Catalog QuickSearch

Type Revell Dictionary then click GO.

• A new window will open with the record for The Revell Bible Dictionary.
• Note the location, call number and status.
  This is a Reference book (LRC-R) available for library use only. It cannot be checked.

How to Read a Call Number
Call numbers are read one row at a time.
Example: The Revell Bible Dictionary, call number BS440.R484 1990

BS Class Number — Read alphabetically. B (major category) = Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Theology; S = Bible 440 Subdivision (numbers further define the book's subject) — Read as a whole number or a mixed decimal. 440 = Bible Dictionaries .R484 Cutter number — Read digit by digit as a decimal fraction. 1990 Other designation — Volume, part, or copy numbers; Publication date LRC-R There may be a location code if the book is located somewhere in the library other than in the main circulating collection. Example, LRC-R = Learning Resources Center, Reference

How Call Numbers are Arranged on the Shelves
Books and other library materials are arranged alphabetically according to LC call numbers. The chart below provides a sample of the shelf arrangement.

Once you have the call number you will need to find the book on the library shelves. When reading the book's record in the library catalog, remember to note which floor it is on and the location code, which may identify a special collection as shown in the chart below.

Books & eBooks — Audiobooks

Library Catalog: Audiobooks

The library provides more than 250 audiobooks available for two week checkout, renewable if needed.

Audiobook Collection EBSCO

A small collection available online. "Search audiobooks, listen to samples, and download your selection." View titles | Help pages | More

 

Free on the Web
(Search the Web for sites that offer lists of high quality, freely available audio books.)

Open Culture

450 free audio books; free downloads

The Audio Books Project (Project Gutenberg)

Offers free downloads with two options: human-read and computer-generated audio books. The collection includes numerous languages.

Browse title list of human-read audio books.

Browse title list of computer-generated audio books.

Find books beyond the ORU library
Use the resources below to find additional materials. When the item you need is not available at ORU, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan.

 

WorldCat.org free on the Web

A library catalog with more than 1.2 billion records for books and other materials in OCLC member libraries, worldwide.

• Include books, websites, films and slides, musical scores, and more.
• Records represent 400 languages.
• Indicates libraries where materials are held. ...more
• Links to the item preview in GoogleBooks.com, if available.
• Use your Zip code to locate the closest library that has the book.
Citation Tools - Click Cite Export within the detailed record to get a pop-up window that shows the citation in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian styles. More
Preview this item - If available, allows you to preview selected pages in GoogleBooks.com.  

WorldCat

To find allows you to find materials in a library or group of libraries in a specified city, state, etc. FirstSearch

Google books free on the Web

Some book previews and complete books available. More...
• Use "Find in Library" (left sidebar) to link to the item record in WorldCat.org.
• Connects to books with the Library Project and Partner Program.
• If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, Google Books provides a preview of the book.
• If the book is in public domain, you can freely download a PDF copy.

 

Other Oklahoma Libraries

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• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, a selection of published works.
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. See also Alex 2.
• American Verse Project, an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry made up of mostly 19th century poetry.
• The ARTFL Project, Public Databases: The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) A collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago.
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
• Bartleby: Great books online. Search fiction, nonfiction, verse, and reference.
• Bible Gateway: The Bible in various versions and languages.
• Bible Study Tools: Multiple versions of the Bible, an interlinear Bible, a parallel Bible, and other Bible study helps provided by Crosswalk.com.
• Bibliomania: Includes 2000+ free texts, study guides and reference resources.
• Bitpipe.com: "The enterprise IT professional's guide to information technology resources. Browse this free online library for the latest technical white papers, webcasts and product information to help you make intelligent IT product purchasing decisions." Requires registration.
• Britannica Academic Edition, see What's New
• A Celebration of Women Writers: A collection of works by women writers gathered from over the centuries and from many countries.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Works from various Christian traditions.
• Complete Works of Shakespeare: Drama and poetry.
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Documents which contain "information which is vital to the democratic process and critical to an informed electorate."
• Digital Book Index: "Provides links to more than 130,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 90,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free."
• The Digital Christian Library: "A site dedicated to bringing public domain works onto the Internet for people to read and purchase."
• Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs Collection: An electronic collection of over 2,000 public domain monographs in the field of mathematics.
• Documenta Catholica Omnia: A massive database of historical church documents including Migne's Patrologia Latina & Patrologiae Graecae. The majority of the items are in Latin, many are in Greek, some are in English and Italian, and a few are in French.
• Documenting the American South: A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the early 20th century.
• Duke Papyrus Archive: "The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt."
• Early Canadiana Online: "Early Canadiana Online is a digital library containing over 1,560,000 pages in more than 8,690 volumes."
• Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts: Edited by Roger Pearse, "these English translations are all out of copyright, but were not included in the 38-volume collection of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.... The texts are listed in chronological order."
• Early Modern Philosophy: English versions of key texts by such early modern philosophers as Bacon, Berkeley, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Malebranche, Mill, Reid, and Spinoza, "prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought." Created by Jonathan Bennett.
• ebrary - Free "Open Access" Collections
• The EServer: Also known as the English Server. An "online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works."
• The Franciscan Archive: "A Web Resource on St. Francis and Franciscanism."
• FreeTechBooks.com: "free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes , all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet."
• Gallica: la bibliothèque numérique: The Bibliothèque nationale de France provides this library of French and francophone culture. It includes electronic texts, images, animations, maps, and sound files, and covers such subject areas as economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and science.
• The Gnostic Society Library: "Includes over a thousand documents related to the Gnostic tradition, including all major Gnostic writings and anti-Gnostic patristic texts." The collection is searchable here.
• Google Books Search: Allows searching of digitized books. If a book is under copyright, a search result will provide basic bibliographic information about it, and "in many cases, a few snippets – a few sentences showing your search term in context. If the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to view and download the entire book. In all cases, you'll see links directing you to online bookstores where you can buy the book and libraries where you can borrow it."
• Great Books: An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation.
• HebrewBooks.org : 15,000 Classical Hebrew Books for Free Download. Tutorial.
• The Hebrew Text of the Tanach
• The Holy Father: Access to papal encyclicals, homilies, letters, and other documents from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI provided by the Vatican website.
• Humanities Text Initiative: Electronic resources provided by the University of Michigan.
• Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia: American Studies.
• Internet Archive: Cornell University Libraries Includes 70,000 public domain works.
  http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6658219.html
• Internet Archive: Open-Access Text Archive: "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook : "A ' classroom usable' sourcebook of copy-permitted material for ancient history and civilization courses."
• Internet Classics Archive: "Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994."
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: "A sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Modern European history and Modern Civilization courses." Includes North American and Latin American documents.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: "An online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources. "
• The Internet Public Library Books Collection: A list of online books browsable by title.
• ipl2: Online Texts: 500+ Internet ebook sources (Internet Public Library/ Librarians' Internet Index) http://www.ipl.org
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies.
• Literary Resources on the Net: "A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature."
• Making of America Books: Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Making of America: ~10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles. A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science and technology and more.
• NASA Technical Reports: "Allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs."
• National Academies Press: "The National Academies Press is now offering many of its titles in digital PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or by the entire book, while others are available for purchase."
• New Advent: Includes Catholic texts including the Catholic Encyclopedia, Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, the Fathers of the Church, the Bible, and other documents.
• The Online Books Page: More than 35,000 English works in various formats.
• Online Literature Library: Classics.
• OpenLibrary (funded by the non profit organization, Internet Archive) Over 1 million accessible books. Free downloadable ebooks. Use a keyword to browse books by books by subject more
• The Oxford Text Archives: Distributes 2,500+ resources in over 25 different languages.
• Perseus Digital Library: Sources for the study of the humanities.
• Perseus Digital Library: Collections include: Greek and Roman Materials, 19th-Century American, Renaissance Materials, Arabic Materials, and Germanic Materials. more
• Project Gutenberg: Full text of thousands of public domain e-texts. more
• Project Wittenberg: A collection of e-texts by Luther and other Lutherans.
• Religion-online.org: Over 200 electronic books by recognized religious scholars.
• Restoration Movement Texts: "Historical texts... dealing with the Restoration Movement. This nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ."
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image: "SCETI, a fully integrated digital library, was created in 1996 to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections."
• Shakespeare in Quarto: View and compare the British Library's ninety-three copies of the twenty-one Shakespeare plays. ."
• Thomas A. Edison Papers: "Over five million pages of documents . . . chronicle one of the most creative technical innovators in the history of the world—Thomas Alva Edison."
• Thomas Aquinas' Works in English: Read English translations of many, if not most, of St. Thomas's theological and philosophical works including both of his Summas and his commentary on Lombard's Sentences as well as his Quaestiones Disputatae, his Opuscula, and his commentaries on Aristotle and on the Bible. Available from Joseph Kenny, O.P., of the Dominican Institute associated with the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
• Tyndale Seminary's Virtual Reading Rooms: Organized links to texts related to biblical studies, missional church, spiritual formation, theology, Christian ethics, and history of Christianity. See, e.g., the Karl Barth Reading Room.
• The Unbound Bible: A collection of downloadable Bibles.
• Universal Digital Library: "A free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet."
• University of California Press: "The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while select books are available to the public. Print versions of many of the electronic books can be purchased directly from the publishers."
• University of Virginia's e-Book Library: Includes classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, and African-American documents.
• The Victorian Web: "A resource for courses in Victorian literature."
• Victorian Women Writers Project: Works by 19th century British women.
• World Council of Churches Documents Repositor: Includes "texts of many different types and levels of institutional authority." They are searchable full-text here and here.
• The World Factbook (CIA)
• Wordtheque: A massive multilingual electronic library of "novels, technical literature and translated texts."