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The OSU Archives has recently updated and expanded our offering of General Records Retention Schedules and are now making it available in a more user friendly consolidated searchable PDF format. This schedule governs the minimum retention and final disposition of records (created and/or received at OSU) in compliance with policies of The Ohio State University and The Ohio Revised Code. For more information please review our Statement of Authority web page...

Link to General Records Retention Schedule General Records Retention Schedule [355KB PDF - including Accounting & Financial, General Administrative, Information Technology, Legal, Personnel (Faculty/Staff/Student), and Student & Course Records - updated February 25, 2008]
Link to Searching Instructions Searching Instructions
Link to Listing of Unique Records Retention Schedules In addition to these general schedules a variety of departments/units have unique records which have been scheduled for retention and disposition with the approval of the University Archivist. Follow the Units with Unique Schedules link to view the a list of these schedules...

If you are unable to find the a records retention schedule that fits your need, please submit a query on our Ask an Archivist page.

SEARCH INSTRUCTIONS

This PDF Opens in “Full Page” View with Bookmarks along the left-hand side.  

One can page through or scroll through the document manually browsing and searching…

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…or one can “click” on a Bookmark and conduct a more targeted browsing search…

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…or a more effective way to search is to utilize the “Search Box” in the Adobe Acrobat Reader Toolbar.  Type a search term or terms and press the Enter Key…

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…and one is taken directly to the page with the first instance of the search term highlighted…

…then one can “click” on the Forward & Backward buttons next to the Search Box to find more results.