|
Research Support Facilities
The university has tens of millions of dollars
invested in state-of-the-art research equipment in the sciences. In
addition to instruments available in individual laboratories, faculty
and graduate students are also welcome to use shared facilities.
New research buildings are going up every year. To learn more about
these facilities, click on the links below.
Libraries
Ohio State has the 16th largest library system in
the United States with a collection totaling more than 4.6 million
print volumes and 3.5 million microforms. The
Main Library in the center of the campus, was recently renovated. The
library system also includes 24 separately housed libraries in such
subject areas as agriculture, biological sciences, chemistry, medicine,
pharmacy, and many others.
The libraries offer a wide variety of automated literature
searching services. Many familiar sources, such as Biological
Abstracts, are available through this service.
The Health Sciences Library provides access to the various databases
of the National Library of Medicine.
For comprehensive information
about the Library System and its on-line search tools go to:
http://library.osu.edu/sites/about/
Computing Facilities
The Office of
Information Technology is the university's major academic
computing facility and offers a wide range of computer services
and facilities. There are many
public computer sites available for students who do not have personal
computers but need to check e-mail accounts, complete assignments
and print out documents. Students may contact the OIT support center
with questions, problems, service requests about hardware, software,
Internet connectivity and other related topics.
|
