Anthony Baker, certified medical Illustrator (CMI) with The Ohio State University’s Health Sciences Library Medical Visuals team, led students through a step-by-step process for drawing a human brain. Organs such as brains are complex structures and can be daunting to draw. However, by breaking it down into a series of simple lines and shapes, even those with previously untapped drawing skills can draw a fairly accurate brain.

Creating an email search alert in various databases is an easy way to ensure that you are keeping up with the newest published literature. PubMed is one of the most commonly used biomedical databases and thankfully creating an email search alert within PubMed is fairly simple to do by following the steps below.

The Medical Heritage Center is pleased to announce the papers of Dr. E. Christopher Ellison, retired administrator and faculty member in The Ohio State University College of Medicine are now available for research. Dr. Ellison deposited his papers in June 2021.

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) offers a range of printing services designed to meet the diverse needs of our community. Whether you’re printing a simple document or creating a large research poster, we have the resources and support to help you succeed.

Tenure faculty (regardless of rank) - persons with the titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor and instructor who serve on appointments totaling 50% or more service to the university and who are eligible for tenure or who have obtained tenure.

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) at Ohio State is a hub of resources and services that can help you achieve your academic and professional goals. Whether you are a health sciences undergraduate, graduate, medical student or a faculty member, we have meticulously developed resources to assist you, and our HSL staff is specially trained to support health sciences research and learning.

HSL Research & Education Librarian Anna Biszaha recently partnered for the second time with occupational therapy (OT) faculty members on a series of online learning modules to help support OT students working on their capstone project.

When the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s Amy Heberling reached out to the Health Sciences Library’s (HSL) Interlibrary Services Department for help with access to a rare item in the Medical Heritage Center’s collections, an interesting and collaborative project between our HSL departments began. 

Covidence is a systematic review screening tool used to streamline the process of screening, reviewing, analyzing, synthesizing and disseminating data you collect from reviewed articles. The main point of conducting systematic reviews is to analyze the findings across studies to answer a clinical question.

The HSL is excited to offer Extended Library Access (ELA) to faculty, staff and students at Ohio State. Once approved, ELA allows individuals to access to the library’s 3^rd floor outside of normal operating hours.

The Medical Heritage Center is excited to announce that the papers of Dr. Teresa Long, the first woman to lead the Columbus Health Department, are available to researchers.

Situated on the corner of West 10^th and Medical Center Drive in Prior Hall, there may be a lot you do not know about the Health Sciences Library (HSL). We are a five-floor library with space to study, have meetings, teach online or hybrid classes, get a coffee, store your belongings and much more. Below, we highlight some student and faculty-favorite spaces if you’re new to The Ohio State University or simply want a refresher!

The HSL’s Medical Visuals team is proud to announce the feature of their artwork on the June 2024 cover of the Wiley Head & Neck journal. This illustration, one piece in a larger project, meticulously depicts the Radial Osteocutaneous Forearm Free Flap (OCRFFF) surgical procedure.

The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center (IHSC) at The Ohio State University was a $157.3 million renovation and building project at Hamilton Hall that provides “upgraded and flexible facilities to create a collaborative campus for interprofessional education throughout the Health Sciences.” Just a short walk from the HSL and Wexner Medical Center, the IHSC is equipped with the latest education techno

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The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Stephanie Schulte, MLIS, as the new assistant vice president of Health Sciences and director of the Ohio State Health Sciences Library, effective December 1, 2023.

Several new Open Access agreements are available in 2024. Open access agreements can help publishing authors at The Ohio State University save on article processing fees.

Looking for a quick pick-me-up? The Caffeine Element café is open!

We are proud to share that The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library has been accepted into the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 6 Partner Outreach Program (POP) for 2021-2026 as well as being named a Region 6 Resource library. Region 6 serves the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

What is the Partner Outreach Program (POP)?

We're making it easier for our off-campus website visitors to access HSL online resources!

Now, simply find the resource you're looking for on the HSL homepage or anywhere in the website, click on the resource link, a