light of the recent developments witnessed by the movement of scientific research in the University of Mosul, represented by horizontal and vertical expansion in graduate studies, the increase in the number of researchers in their different categories, the diversity of their research, their need for contemporaryity, and the awareness of what is published recently in their fields of interest, the importance of the role that the periodicals department can play in The central library in providing information and information about it and instructing the beneficiaries on how to use searchlights and abstracts to access the information, and since the central library of the University of Mosul is the only university library in the region (Nineveh Governorate), the users of this library have no researchers and interested people in literature, research and periodicals, but an option other than using the periodicals department In this library. However, it appears that the range of periodicals acquired by this department in terms of quantity and quality and the services provided by it do not meet the needs of teachers and graduate students.