Occupational Safety Health and Environment: Books and eBooks

Information about books, journals, databases and other useful Occupational Safety Health and Environment resources

Finding Books using OneSearch

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Short Loan & 4-Hour Collections

Short Loan Collection

The Short Loan Collection (SLC) contains multiple copies of books in demand, or on reading lists and can be borrowed for 7 days.

4-Hour Collection

The 4-Hour Loan collection contains items that are in very high demand at certain times of the year. You can borrow and take these books anywhere in the Library, but they cannot be taken out of the Library building.

Books

Books and eBooks are listed in OneSearch, our resource discovery service. Useful titles available via UCD Library include:

Books@Ovid This link opens in a new window
Collection of medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers. UCD Library has purchased individual titles to support teaching, learning and research.
EnviroNetBase ebooks (CRC Press) This link opens in a new window
Complete with the latest research on pollution reduction, emissions, and environmental contamination, this e-book collection provides complete access to references on methods for site assessment, remediation, and soil and water quality monitoring. The Environmental Science Collection describes new tools and technologies for remote sensing, GIS, and photogrammetric environmental monitoring. UCD has access to several hundred titles.
ErgonomicsNetBase ebooks (CRC Press) This link opens in a new window
UCD has purchased several hundred titles in the field of Ergonomics.
Ebook Central (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
An extensive multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities. UCD Library purchases select ebooks to support teaching, learning and research.

Reference Books

Reference items are helpful for finding background information; definitions and spelling; facts and figures; translations; statistics and topical overviews of subjects. Reference books can be found both in print and online. See here for further information.

Useful online reference material for this subject include:

ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety
A comprehensive tool for academia, journalists and the general public – anyone interested in obtaining data and other information about safety and health at work.

Where in the Library?

Most print material related to Occupational Safety Health and Environment is held in the Health Sciences Library.

Occupational Safety Health and Environment is multidisciplinary by nature and so books might also be held in other UCD Libraries.