Supporting excellence in research and advancing knowledge is a core operation of the University Libraries. We do this by offering researchers access to rich collections owned locally and across the world, by building services and infrastructures to improve your efficiency and impact as a researcher, and by supporting developing and evolving areas of scholarly communication.
Research Services Department The Research Services Department can help you all along your research journey: finding data sources, identifying journals, preserving your data, literature search and management, open access options, and all the steps in between. Ask us about:
- Research data management , including data management plans ( DMPTool ), open data , finding and evaluating data and data repositories
- ORCiD to identify and differentiate your publications
- Collaboration on teaching and conducting systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis projects
- Tools to help you measure Research Impact and manage your scholarly profile in support of your career goals
- Implementing data literacy across campus by supporting data use and analysis in class assignments
Content Purchasing & Access Learn more about the ways you can gain access to collections and research materials from across the world, as well as help us build and leverage Ohio University Libraries’ research collections.
Support for open access article fees Learn more about how the Libraries' memberships offer coverage of some open access article fees or APCs.
Scholarly Communication Investigate copyright, creative commons, open access, and how you can manage your rights as an author.
Your Subject Librarian Dig into the resources of the field with the collaboration of your subject research export.
Additional supports for faculty research:
- Access closed floors of Alden by requesting a stacks pass
- Reserve a room, a lab, or study carrel