Teaching and Learning

To facilitate teaching and learning, the Health Sciences Library will leverage 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.

Jump to a teaching and learning highlight:

• Workshop sessions held (fiscal year 2024)
• Librarian-developed subject guides and tutorials
• MHC archival collections grow
• Medical Visuals presents to Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (HRS) class
• Increased access to McGraw-Hill Access databases
• New and expanded open access publishing agreements

Workshop sessions held

In 2024, HSL librarians and staff taught 108 sessions with 1,911 attendees.

HSL librarians continue vital evidence-based instruction to M3 Students

In 2024, HSL librarians continued to provide evidence-based medicine instruction during the third year of medical school at the beginning of their 16-week Understanding Specialized Medical Care rotation. This instruction reviews searching the literature to answer a clinical question and prepares students for finding clinical answers connected to a real patient encountered during the rotation. This kind of librarian-integrated instruction in the third year has consistently taken place for at least 15 years.

Librarian-developed subject guides and tutorials

HSL librarians continued to create much-needed digital resources for the health sciences and medical communities. To date, we have 10 tutorials on our website. Subject guide usage totaled 128,035 views in 2024. Our top-used subject guides are as follows:

• Systematic Reviews (42,848 views)
• PubMed (15,729 views)
• Nursing (10,542 views)
• Evidence-Based Practice (6,155 views)
• Citation Management Tools (5,459 views)

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MHC Archival Collections Grow

The Medical Heritage Center (MHC) added, processed and preserved 35 archival collections that are open to the public for research in 2024, including the papers of E. Christopher Ellison, MD and Teresa Long, MD.

Finding aid for Dr. Teresa Long papers
Finding aid for Dr. E. Christopher Ellison papers

Medical Visuals Presents to HRS Class

Anthony Baker, CMI, lead medical illustrator for Medical Visuals, was invited by Jennifer Okejownik, PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences faculty, to present a lecture to her Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellness class. This core course traces the production of medical knowledge from the time of Hippocrates through history. Students learn about the science of medicine, as well as the intersection of art and medicine. Anthony provided a medical illustrator’s perspective, lecturing on the history, practice and purpose of medical illustration.

Increased Access to McGraw-Hill Access Databases

In 2024, the HSL successfully negotiated the number of subscriptions to McGraw-Hill Access databases. We added subscription access to AccessAnesthesiology and AccessPediatrics, in addition to our robust existing McGraw-Hill subscriptions. AccessAnesthesiology and AccessPediatrics provide additional reference eBooks, procedural videos and multimedia, test prep and self-assessment including 1,500 cases to prep for the ABP certifying exam and over 3,700 questions and answers covering core anesthesiology topics. The HSL’s new agreement with McGraw-Hill also provides full access to these resources at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, providing a seamless experience across our campuses.

New and Expanded Open Access Publishing Agreements

The HSL participated in several added or expanded open access agreements in 2024. Major new agreements included Elsevier and Springer Nature and the Wiley agreement was expanded to include more than 600 Wiley fully open access journals. Open access agreements can help publishing authors at The Ohio State University save money on article processing fees. The HSL website’s open access and publication support page has information about all currently available agreements.

As of January 15, 2025, more than $9 million in open access fees have been waived for Ohio State authors via our Read and Publish and Pure Publish agreements. Between July 8, 2020 and January 15, 2025:

• Open access fees waived for Ohio State authors: $9,072,461
• Open access articles published with no author cost: 2,703

Publishers include: Biochemical Society, Cambridge University Press, The Company of Biologists, De Gruyter, Elsevier, Institute of Physics (IOP), Microbiology Society, PLOS, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.

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