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The Library subscribes to over 200 databases, containing journal articles, statistics, scientific and legal data and much more. Select the database you need from the alphabetical lists on these pages, or choose your topic under Databases by Subject.
Databases by subject:
OAIster
Published by: University of Michigan Library
Description: OAIster is a catalog of digital resources from a variety of contributors. Included in the collection:digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, datasets, theses, technical reports, research papers, and image collections. OAIster currently provides access to 20 million records from 1082 contributors and is updated quarterly.
Coverage: Varies by titles; updated monthly
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
Description: OAIster is a catalog of digital resources from a variety of contributors. Included in the collection:digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, datasets, theses, technical reports, research papers, and image collections. OAIster currently provides access to 20 million records from 1082 contributors and is updated quarterly.
Coverage: Varies by titles; updated monthly
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest)
Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
Coverage: 1981+ updated monthly
Concurrent User: unlimited
Content: Index, with links to some full text
Description: focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
Coverage: 1981+ updated monthly
Concurrent User: unlimited
Content: Index, with links to some full text
OECD iLibrary - formerly known as SourceOECD.
Published by: OECD
Description: OECD iLibrary is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It comprises: 20 Studies by Themes, containing all OECD’s monographs, annuals, studies, proceedings and reports from 1998; 25 periodicals and reference titles; 25 interactive online statistical databases.
Coverage: updated daily, coverage varies by title (earliest 1997)
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: OECD iLibrary is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It comprises: 20 Studies by Themes, containing all OECD’s monographs, annuals, studies, proceedings and reports from 1998; 25 periodicals and reference titles; 25 interactive online statistical databases.
Coverage: updated daily, coverage varies by title (earliest 1997)
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories
Published by: OpenDOAR
Description: OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) provides a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories of the wide variety of Open Access research archives freely available around the world. It also includes archives set up by funding agencies, like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe.Users of the service will be able to search repositories by subject, location, item type, software etc. Additionally, OpenDOAR provides tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Description: OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) provides a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories of the wide variety of Open Access research archives freely available around the world. It also includes archives set up by funding agencies, like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe.Users of the service will be able to search repositories by subject, location, item type, software etc. Additionally, OpenDOAR provides tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
OSH References
Published by: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Description: With over 500,000 references the OSH References Collection of bibliographic databases provides you with convenient access to international sources of OSH-related information. OSH References Collection includes: OSHLINE®, NIOSHTIC®, NIOSHTIC-2, CISILO, HSELINE, Canadiana, INRS - Bibliographie.
Content: index only
Description: With over 500,000 references the OSH References Collection of bibliographic databases provides you with convenient access to international sources of OSH-related information. OSH References Collection includes: OSHLINE®, NIOSHTIC®, NIOSHTIC-2, CISILO, HSELINE, Canadiana, INRS - Bibliographie.
Content: index only
OT Seeker
Published by: ProQuest Information and Learning
Description: Search for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy. Studies are ranked using the same PEDro scale used in the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: abstract only
Description: Search for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy. Studies are ranked using the same PEDro scale used in the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: abstract only
OUP Journals
Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: OUP is widely recognised as one of the world's premier journal publishers, successfully combining traditional values of quality and service together with innovative use of the latest technologies. AUT has access to the full text of more than 150 OUP journals.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: OUP is widely recognised as one of the world's premier journal publishers, successfully combining traditional values of quality and service together with innovative use of the latest technologies. AUT has access to the full text of more than 150 OUP journals.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
OVID databases
Published by: OVID Technologies
Description: AUT subscribes to the following databases on the OVID platform: AMED, ERIC, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews including the Cochrane Library, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Lippincott 100 Nursing and Health Science Collection, Lippincott Nursing Book Collection, MEDLINE, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PsycArticles, PsycInfo. All databases are cross-searchable and work with articlelinker to help you locate full text.
Coverage: varies by database
Content: some full text collections
Description: AUT subscribes to the following databases on the OVID platform: AMED, ERIC, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews including the Cochrane Library, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Lippincott 100 Nursing and Health Science Collection, Lippincott Nursing Book Collection, MEDLINE, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PsycArticles, PsycInfo. All databases are cross-searchable and work with articlelinker to help you locate full text.
Coverage: varies by database
Content: some full text collections
Oxford Art Online
Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Oxford Art Online is an innovative new 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. Subscription includes: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Concurrent Users: 5
Content: Full text
Description: Oxford Art Online is an innovative new 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. Subscription includes: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Concurrent Users: 5
Content: Full text
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the 'greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced’ (Newsweek).
Content: Full text
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the 'greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced’ (Newsweek).
Content: Full text
Oxford Reference Online
Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Oxford Scholarship Online - Law
Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: E-book collection, ranging from the foundations of legal history and philosophy to analytic and comparative work on legal doctrine and empirical research on law in modern society. Includes new titles: Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: E-book collection, ranging from the foundations of legal history and philosophy to analytic and comparative work on legal doctrine and empirical research on law in modern society. Includes new titles: Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Oxford Scholarship Online - Public Health and Epidemiology
Published by: Oxford University Press
Description: OSO Public Health and Epidemiology contains select titles which critically discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations worldwide.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Description: OSO Public Health and Epidemiology contains select titles which critically discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations worldwide.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
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Database License Conditions: The Library licenses databases for use by current staff and students of AUT. Under the terms of our license agreements data may only be used for the purposes of University teaching, research and study. Copyright information included by the database owners may not be obscured or removed. No data may be copied for sale or used for any commercial purposes, nor may it be copied or reproduced for the benefit of any third party external to AUT.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2010 12:30pm