Enabling Learner, Researcher and Clinician Success
Enabling Learner, Researcher and Clinician Success
To facilitate learner, researcher and clinician success, the Health Sciences Library leverages the specialized expertise of our faculty and professional staff, accessible high-quality information resources, inviting spaces and innovative technologies to meet the changing needs of a diverse and expanding academic health sciences community.
2025 Highlights
Anna Biszaha, associate professor and HSL research and education librarian, has been actively involved in the campus-wide Public Access to Sponsored Research Data working group. The new NIH policy went into effect sooner than expected on July 1, 2025. In response to this, Anna, working with Kelsey Badger from Ohio State University Libraries and a representative from the Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge (ERIK), created a video to provide an overview of the changes and also provided workshops to the campus community. Anna is also a co-convener of the Research Data Assistance Network (RDAN) at Ohio State. RDAN was formed as the result of work Anna and Kelsey did with the ITHAKA S&R data management study. It was designed to serve as a campus-wide community of practice for people who work in a variety of data services. The goal of RDAN is to improve communication and coordination related to research across Ohio State.
HSL librarians taught 124 education sessions (33 workshops and 39 sessions embedded into courses)
- Reached nearly 2,000 learners
- Mastering the Biomedical Literature I, a 2-credit hour required course for biomedical science majors
- Read more:
- Number of guides: 76
- Total number of views: 117,100
- Top 5 subject guides based on views
- Systematic reviews 33,386
- PubMed 14,876
- Nursing 8,519
- Citation Management 7,017
- Health Information for the Public 4,475
- Other subject guides views data:
- NIH Data Management and Sharing 3,503
- NIH Public Access Policy 901 (261% increase over 2024 due to this guide being highlighted in workshops discussing the July 1 policy change)
- Number of illustrations: 117
- Number of posters printed: 1,793 (paper: 1,167; cloth: 626)
Notable highlights:
- Anthony S. Baker, CMI, FAMI, lead HSL medical illustrator, was inducted as a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) at the AMI annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The designation of Fellow is among the most distinguished honors bestowed by the AMI. It is a formal recognition of those AMI members who have generously contributed their skill, time and effort by performing volunteer service. Over the years Anthony has served as a committee co-chair, salon judge, lecture presenter, newsletter contributor, committee member and mentor for the AMI.
- While most of our medical illustration clients are members of the Ohio State and Wexner Medical Center communities, Courtney Chenock had the unique opportunity to work with Hamilton East Public Library (HEPL) in Hamilton County, Indiana to create custom illustrations for a coloring book called Hidden Histories, highlighting historical figures from Hamilton County. Kelsey Sweet, director of marketing and communications at HEPL, met Courtney at an American Library Association annual conference and was intrigued by our Local Luminaries coloring book. Read more in our news story about the collaboration.
Presentations and outreach:
- April 2025, Medical Illustration: Illuminating the Science of Life, The Ohio State University Anatomy Outreach Days, in collaboration with the Ohio State Division of Anatomy, Anthony Baker and Courtney Fleming
- June 2025, Art for Medicine: An Introduction to Medical Illustration, The Ohio State University College of Medicine MD Camp, introducing high school summer camp participants to the field of medical illustration and leading them through a Draw-a-Brain workshop, Anthony Baker
- October 2025, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) annual conference, Los Angeles CA, exhibited recent neurosurgical illustration as part of the CNS annual medical art gallery showcase, Anthony Baker
- November 2025, Draw-a-Kidney workshop, presented to medical students as part of the The Ohio State University College of Medicine’s Humanism and the Arts in Medicine program, Anthony Baker
We continue to support 14 open access (OA) agreements in partnership with Ohio State University Libraries, OhioLINK and the Big Tem Academic Alliance. These agreements are planning a larger role now due to the NIH requiring immediate public access to NIH-funded studies’ publications as of July 2025. Many publishers are mandating payment of OA fees to provide this federally required access; however, for now, journals covered by the agreements have their fees waived.
- In 2025, Ohio State health sciences authors in medicine, nursing, public health, optometry and dentistry had fees covered for 673 articles, saving $2,601,673. This data is from five of 14 OA agreements.
These requests represent interlibrary requests that are filled from HSL collections. The average time to fill requests after submission was 5 hours, 7 minutes. This data does not include the number of articles filled for HSL patrons by The Ohio State University Libraries.
- We served 181 libraries in calendar year 2025
- 2,446 requests filled
Top requesting libraries, by requests filled:
- Mayo Clinic (293)
- Indiana University School of Medicine (215)
- Midwestern University (139)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (93)
- Ohio University (78)
We filled requests from 1,037 journals in calendar year 2025.
Top requested journals, by requests filled:
- New England Journal of Medicine (20)
- Autism in Adulthood (20)
- Focus: Journal of the American Psychiatric Association (15)
- NEJM Catalyst: Innovations in Care Delivery (14)
- The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery (11)
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