Electronic resources beginning with ‘O’

The OAG site provides many useful tools to travellers. This page includes travel information by country, airline and airport data, flight schedules, flight routes and visa and passport requirements.

This is the official site of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It includes information about OECD statistics and access to some full text documents.

Official information, schedules and results for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Produced by the University of Auckland, this site links to free statistics sites from official sources.Some data is downloadable as text or spreadsheet files. Data for individual countries can also be found in resources listed in the regions and the topic pages.

A joint project of the Ordnance Survey (the national mapping agency of Great Britain) and digital mapmakers Landmark Information Group. This site provides online access to an extensive archive of historic British maps.

An alphabetical list of old occupations and their meanings.

The Old Registers are officially known as the Registers of Assignments and Other Legal Instruments. The register was proclaimed in 1802 but allowed people to register assignments and other legal instruments back to 1794. The nine registers represent a unique social record of the period from 22 January 1794 to 15 May 1824.

Read more at http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publications/old-register-one-to-nine-dvd

There are instructions to use the Old Registers next to the Standalone 1 PC.

Created by the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) this site provides information on the history of the Olympic Games from the origins of games in prehistory and antiquity, to the revival of the Olympic Games in the modern era. It contains details of Greek myths, information on athletes of antiquity and the Athens Games of 1896.

A guide to more than 200 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems, Omniglot also contains details of many of the languages written with those writing systems, and links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries and online language courses.

OneLook enables you to find definitions and translations of words and phrases in multiple online dictionaries by doing a single search. The reverse dictionary feature lets you describe a concept and find a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

Style guide to cite online resources such as websites, email, listservs.

Conversion charts for lengths and distances, temperature, speed, volume, weight and mass, date and time, cooking, clothing and many other categories.

This online dictionary has 1000 entries covering various disciplines of the social sciences.

The British Library's largest digitisation project provides virtual exhibitions and themed tours of its collections.

This site contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

This site provides links to thousands of newspapers available on the Internet. This list is arranged by country.

Search millions of book records, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.

A multilingual community resource directory providing links to web pages in some of Australia's most widely-spoken languages.

Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.

The Orange Prize for Fiction is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English.The prize is open to any full length novel, written in English by a woman of any nationality, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.

Historical versions of Ordinance 70 - as at June 1973,February 1975, June 1983, July 1988 and January 1992 - full text - can be downloaded in pdf.

The official site of the peak industry body for the Australian organic and biodynamic industry. The site includes news, research, an online marketplace, and information about organic standards and certifiers.

One stop access point for English Origins, Scots Origins and Irish Origins. Several databases are included such as Boyd's Marriage Index, Griffith's Valuation and enhanced IGI searching for Scottish Records. The names are searchable but a fee is required to view the results.

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms with 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.

Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.

Oxford Music Online contains Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.

Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.

Historical match, player and club records for Australian soccer (football).

OZJAC is an easy to use online database that can help young people and adults find answers to their job, course and career questions. It brings together information on all accredited courses in Australia, links courses to jobs, and jobs to industry, with explanations of new concepts used in education, training and the labour market. The database also offers suggestions about future employment options.

Ozlife, produced by the National Library of Australia, is an index to Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals. A complete list of newspaper and journal titles indexed in OzLife is available from the main Search/Browse screen.