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Research Support Facilities
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
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