Unique research opportunities exist for both doctoral and post-doctoral studies. The Göttingen University Library – the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) – is one of the largest collections of books, periodicals, manuscripts, incunabula, maps, microforms, CD-ROM data banks and digitalized holdings in Germany, and offers carrels and other study facilities in its new on-campus library building. 

Courtyard (so called "Akademiehof") and main entrance of the Research Library; center: west-wing of the university's historical "Kollegienhauses"  (1734-37); left: new library building (1878-82); in the courtyard bronce statue  "Butt im Griff" by Günter Grass (on the left) and statue of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg by Volker Neuhoff.

The Institute for the History of Science, located in the historic Heyne-Haus in the city centre, is part of the old library complex. This complex includes a Research Library for the History of Science that provides open-stack access to some 200.000 eighteenth-and nineteenth-century volumes in selected areas of specialized interest. A comprehensive Information Centre for the History of Science with twentieth-century literature and electronic resources is in development. The complex further includes the University Archives as well as manuscript papers of many Göttingen scientists, among them Albrecht von Haller, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Friedrich Wöhler and David Hilbert.