11 Facts About OhioLINK

OhioLINK serves faculty, students, staff and other researchers via campus-based integrated library systems, the OhioLINK central site, and Internet resources.

OhioLINK's mission is to create a competitive advantage for Ohio's higher education community by cooperatively and cost-effectively acquiring, providing access to, and preserving an expanding array of print and digital scholarly resources in order to advance teaching, learning, research, and the growth of Ohio's knowledge-based economy.

OhioLINK offers these main digital collections and services, some of which are open access:.

In 1990, OhioLINK selected Innovative Interfaces, Inc to develop the unique software system to create the OhioLINK central catalog and selected Digital Equipment Corporation for the computer hardware base.

OhioLINK licensed four databases from University Microfilms International, UMI, for citations to millions of business, newspaper and periodical articles and to academic dissertations.

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In February 1996, OhioLINK began offering services through the World Wide Web.

OhioLINK is part of Ohio's ongoing tradition in pioneering library automation.

Also in October 2012, OhioLINK was brought under the umbrella of the Ohio Technology Consortium.

The eTutoring service remained, and OhioLINK began statewide Affordable Learning initiatives focusing on textbook affordability.

In 2017, OhioLINK signed statewide deals with what eventually totaled six major commercial textbook publishers for discounted textbooks in the inclusive access model, an initiative that many referred to as groundbreaking because it included almost all higher education institutions in the state of Ohio under one agreement.

In 2017, OhioLINK celebrated its 25th anniversary with a reception at the Ohio Statehouse featuring faculty from member institutions who showcased their research and talked about the support and content OhioLINK provided.