Good research requires good research facilities, both campus-wide and in the individual laboratory.

OSU's library system is the nation's 16th largest, and was the first to utilize a unique type of computerized circulation. The libraries of Battelle Memorial Institute and of Chemical Abstracts, both adjacent to the campus, are easily available to OSU faculty and graduate students. The pooled resources of these libraries provide a collection of technical literature matched by few others in the world.

The University research computer center provides a wide variety of services, ranging from a high-speed data link to a Cray supercomputer located on the edge of the campus, to over a dozen microcomputer laboratories around campus.

The Campus Chemical Instrument Center, directed by a member of the Biophysics Program, is a central facility for state-of-the-art molecular research. Its equipment includes three high-resolution gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers as well as 300 and 500 MHz FT-NMR spectrometers equipped for two-dimensional and solids experiments. A whole-body 1.5 tesla NMR imaging instrument in the Medical School is also available for research. Other spectrometers -- for electron spin resonance, fluorescence and phosphorescence, circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion, Fourier-transform infrared, and dual wavelength measurements -- are available in the laboratories of Biophysics Program faculty. A linear accelerator is also available.

For research at the cellular level there are facilities for scanning electron microscopy, microcalorimetry, and for making and using microelectrodes capable of electrical and chemical measurements within a single cell.