Resources: keeping you up to date

The OU Library keeps you up-to-date in your subject by regularly subscribing to new resources. Here are the latest subscriptions available to registered OU students.

Engineering, technology and design students: discover the latest research from the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library which contains full text ASTM standards, technical papers, books, manuals, data series and journals, covering a broad range of engineering disciplines.

Environment, development and international studies students: The National Geographic Virtual Library, a complete collection of the National Geographic Magazine and Traveler (dating back to 1888) with images, maps, videos and full-text books.

Health and social care students: access to Social policy and practice online which includes data from ChildData, AgeInfo, Planex and Social Care Online. The collection includes abstracts of material (with some links to full-text) and covers public and social policy, public health, social care, community development, mental & community health, homelessness, housing, crime, law & order, families, children and older people.

Language students: check out the Cairn Collections of Que sais-je? a collection of searchable, full text, French popular encyclopedias.

Law students: access the Max Planck encyclopaedia of public international law. This comprehensive resource contains peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of public international law.

Posted 23 March 2013