eBooks

Thousands of eBooks available through the library are accessible through the web browser of your desktop, laptop, or mobile device. You can search for eBooks available at Ohio State through the new Libraries Search discovery tool.

Learn about Libraries Search in our Libraries Search guide.

PubMed

PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and life science journals, plus a small collection of online books.

For PubMed searching assistance, the following resources are available:

Our Collections

At its inception, the Medical Heritage Center began acquiring historic material and artifacts that speak to central Ohio's rich health sciences history. All MHC collections are housed in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment. All collections are available for viewing by appointment.

Rare Book Collection

The rare book collection contains over 20,000 volumes representing limited edition and one-of-a kind monographs dating back to 1555.

Reserve Materials

The Health Sciences Library Reserve features materials such as books, serials, and anatomical models that are used in or supplement OSU courses that are given shorter loan periods to provide equitable access to materials.

Print Reserves

The following process is in place for print reserves

Interlibrary Services

Interlibrary Services provides interlibrary loan and document delivery of articles, books and book chapters, and more through the ILLiad request system. The Health Sciences Library (HSL) and Ohio State Interlibrary Services (located in Thompson Library) have partnered to provide one centralized service for all Ohio State students, faculty and staff.

Learn with Us! Health Sciences Library (HSL) Autumn Workshops

Check out the HSL's Autumn 2025 workshop lineup!

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) librarians hold educational workshops each semester, geared towards The Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center clinicians, researchers, faculty, staff and learners. Note that individuals outside of the health sciences are welcome to register, but please be aware that the content of the workshops may be more health sciences-focused.

Date
2025-09-23T12:30:00
End Time
2025-09-23T14:30:00
Summary
This is a basic workshop to help participants learn how to use THE Studio, a video and audio recording space located in the EdTech Incubator (ETI). This training is a pre-requisite to booking THE Studio for the first time. The workshop is in-person only.
Posting Date
2025-09-01T07:30:00

Introduction to THE Studio is a basic workshop to help participants learn how to use THE Studio, a video and audio recording space located in the EdTech Incubator (ETI). Participants will be briefed on how to set up for a shoot, including lighting, camera placement, recording and file storage.