Academic Support Resources
Oregon State has a range of academic support resources at each campus location. Learn more about the resources that will support your graduate student experience.
Writing Support
The OSU Graduate Writing Center has provided support for graduate students, staff, and faculty with any writing they do, including theses and dissertations, seminar papers, manuscripts, poster presentations, IRB applications, funding and research proposals, conference and defense presentations, and much more. We provide both written and one-on-one remote sessions with highly-trained Graduate Writing Consultants.
Statistics Counseling
Statistics short format consulting - Stats got you stuck? In-person statistical advice is available for graduate students working on research. Get help designing your study or analyzing your data. Forty-five minute appointments are available during weeks 2-10 of the term. To learn more and sign up for a consultation, please visit the statistics consulting website.
Libraries' Resources
OSU Libraries and Press includes The Valley Library in Corvallis, routinely selected by students as the Best Place to Study on Campus, the Marilyn Potts Guin Library, the intellectual heart of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, and the OSU-Cascades Library in Tykeson Hall in Bend.
Study Rooms
Each library location has spaces for individual and group study. Reservations range in length from short to long-term.
Corvallis: Valley Library
Valley Library in Corvallis has study rooms and small group rooms available for reservation. Please use the button above to reserve a room.
Academic Study Rooms
One-term academic study rooms are available for a term-long loan period to all students with documented academic needs. Please review the room policies before reserving an academic study room.
- Fall requests are now open through Sept. 21.
- For all students with an academic or research need
- Rooms are checked out at the beginning of each term and due at the end of the term
Classrooms
OSU employees and student groups can request classroom reservations for OSU-related meetings and workshops. View Classrooms.
Silent or Quiet Study
- The first floor (one floor below the entrance) is designated as a silent floor. This means that people studying here need the space to be as close to silent as possible.
- The sixth floor is designated as a quiet floor. There is also a quiet space on part of the fifth floor. Quiet means that there is only occasional very quiet talking in these areas.
Hatfield Marine Science Center: Marilyn Potts Guin Library
Guin Library in Newport has meeting and study spaces available. Learn more about meeting and study spaces available for reservation or open to drop in use, including space designated for graduate student use.
Graduate Study Rooms
- Study Rooms are available to graduate students who are studying for oral or written examinations, or who are in the final phases of their writing and research.
- Study Rooms are not substitutes for offices; Regular graduate student office space can be requested through the HMSC Research Facility Coordinator(Link sends email).
- The graduate student major professor must email the Library Director stating why there is a need for a Study Room. To renew your Study Room, call (541) 867-0108(Link opens phone app) or email the Library Director(Link sends email).
Cascades: OSU-Cascades Library
The OSU-Cascades Library has three individual study rooms and one group-use room for when you need a quiet space to focus.
- Students, faculty and staff: Rooms are available on a first come, first serve basis.
- Study rooms check out for three hours with your ONID ID.
- Please be mindful of your allotted time, as other students might be waiting for a room.
- During high-use times such as Week 10 we operate a manual waitlist.
- Study rooms are not soundproof; please be considerate of people present in neighboring rooms.