Ohio documents are arranged by the Ohio Documents Classification Scheme, a system that was modeled after SuDocs. All Ohio publications began with the letter O followed by letters and numbers designating the publishing department or agency. Our collection of 700,000 publications is rich in historical and current material.
Many federal publications provide information about state government and demographics.
The department became an Ohio depository in 1953 and receives all agency publications distributed through the state depository program. Our state collection numbers about 20,000. Publications range from small pamphlets to large bound sets and cover a variety of topics such as AIDS, budgeting, education, economic development, environmental issues, health, public welfare, taxation, and much much more. Annual reports, newsletters, laws, regulations, and agency information can be found in the Ohio documents collection. The documents collection is housed in several locations depending upon subject and format.