Course Librarian
- Anne-Marie Deitering
- Office Hours:
Valley Library 4th floor. - Contact Info:
(AIM & Yahoo IM) amlibrarian 
recommended databases
To search across several journals for articles, you'll want a database. For this you can use a huge database like Google Scholar, or a more targeted database that searches a selected pool of sources within a topic or discipline. Here's some to try:
Use these to get immediate access to the library's full-text subscriptions
Use these to dig deeply on a topic
Note - to get access to the articles, just follow the steps in the module labeled "find an article from a citation"
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
- Fish and Fisheries Worldwide
- Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
- Envionmental Science and Pollution Management
Use these to scan broadly across a lot of disciplines
(note - don't pay for articles you find here. Access library subscriptions instead)
how-to: find the full text of an article from a citation
This can get complex - the article you want might be:
- Available for free on the open web
- Available for a charge on the open web
- Available electronically on the library website
- Available in print in the library building
- Available once we get you a copy from another library.
If it's #1 above - great! You're done.
For options #2 - 5, here are the steps you want to follow to be sure to get free, full-text access to everything the library subscribes to.
- Check the E-Journals list (also available from the Quicklinks) on the library homepage to see if we have a digital subscription. Search this list by Journal or Magazine Title.
- OR - check the OSU Library Catalog to see if we have a subscription in print OR electronic form. Again, search this by Journal or Magazine Title.
- If one of these searches shows that we have a subscription to your journal or magazine, check the year and volume you want -- make sure that our subscription includes that year/volume.
- Click the link to get to a digital copy, or write down the call number and volume number to get a print journal from the shelves.
- If any of these steps do not work - ask for help. Finding journals is complicated because of all of the different formats we have access to. Asking for help is always a good strategy.
Reference Resources
In their peer-reviewed articles, scholars and experts are writing for other scholars and experts. They may use terms that are not familiar to the general public, or they may use familiar terms in very specific ways.
There are specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias that are very useful when you run into one of those terms. They're written for the general public to use, but they are designed to help you understand how scholars in the field talk about their subjects.
From Oxford Reference Online --
Note: These are subscription products, so to access this information from off-campus, you will be asked to provide your name and OSU ID. Once you provide that, you can access this content from any computer with an Internet connection.
Useful categories:
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Includes the Dictionary of the Weather and A Dictionary of Ecology .
Includes the Encyclopedia of Mammals and the Encyclopedia of Underwater Life , among others.
Includes a Dictionary of Biology and The New Encyclopdia of Birds .
On the web:
This glossary at the official website for National Estuaries Day provides very basic definitions.
A (partial) list of scholarly journals
This is a list of some of the major scholarly journals in the fields you will be studying this term. It is not a complete list.
If you find a journal article that you want to use that is from a journal not on this list, any librarian or any one of your course instructors can help you figure out if it is a peer-reviewed journal appropriate for your journals assignments.
The library has digital subscriptions to almost all of these journals. Some access points (databases or websites) are listed in parentheses.
Title List
Journal of Shellfish Research (BioOne)
Marine Ecology Progress Series (journal page at Inter-Research)
Science (Academic Search Premier and the journal site)
Nature (Nature Journals online)
Biological Bulletin (journal page at Highwire)
Journal of Parasitology (BioOne)
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (journal page at Science Direct)
Journal of Crustacean Biology (BioOne)
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology (Science Direct)
Ecology (JSTOR, Journal page)
Bioscience (Academic Search Premier, BioOne)
Journal of Biology (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Estuarine Costal and Shelf Science (Science Direct)
Last Update: July 01, 2008 16:25
