As an OU member of staff you have access to a world-class collection of library resources.
These high quality and trusted resources support your work, research, module writing or studies and include resources such as academic journals, newspapers, and academic books.
One of our aims is to help students study successfully and to develop skills valued by employers through the digital and information literacy programme.
We provide a clear vision and support for the integration of information literacy in to the curriculum alongside a number of student facing guides and online training sessions:
If you are involved in module production the Supporting Learning and Teaching section of the Library Services intranet site should be your first port of call.
Library Helpdesk staff are available to support you with more general enquiries and can be contacted by phone, email or webchat.
Support and guidance is also available for students who would like advice about where to find library resources or how to use them. These include:
Open Research Online (ORO) is the OU's open access online repository for its peer-reviewed, published research outputs and OU awarded theses. OU academic staff and researchers are encouraged to deposit their peer reviewed research publications in ORO. There are many benefits in doing so:
Open University Digital Archive (OUDA), is the OU’s Digital Archive of historical and teaching output. All staff can use OUDA to search for archival materials. Staff on campus and those with VPN can access digitised archival content in OUDA. AL’s will gain access to the digitised content when we launch externally in early 2015 and selected digital content will be made available to OU students and the public. OUDA materials:
If you wish to use the Library at Walton Hall to borrow books, DVDs and videos, or to use the document delivery service, you will first need to join the Library and bring your Library card with you at each visit.