Rangeland Ecology and Management

These additional databases and e-resource collections below will be useful in locating scholarly/peer reviewed articles in Rangeland Ecology and Management related topics.

• GreenFILE
  Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Greenfile serves as an informative resource for the interested novice.
  Coverage Dates: mid-1960's - present
• JSTOR Plant Science
  JSTOR specializes in giving you access to the older years of journals. For studying the plants associated with rangelands, this can be a useful resource.
  Coverage Dates: 1816 -
• Treesearch: USDA Forest Service Research Publications
  Treesearch contains the full-text of peer reviewed, published research findings of the U.S. Forest Service. It includes not only agency publications, but also articles from journals, conference proceedings, and books whose authors are employed by the Forest Service. As the USFS proceeds with retrospective digitization of its publications, these are also added to TreeSearch.
  Coverage Dates: 2004 - present
• Web of Science
  Indexes thousands of scholarly journals in all disciplines. You can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, author affliation and you can also search for articles that cite a known author or work.
  Coverage Dates: 1970 - present

When you see an article of interest in a database, follow the "360 link to full-text" -- This will bring you back to our library.  If the article is not available electronically from our subscriptions, then you can use the request feature (Scan & Deliver) and it will be sent to you (that will take 48 hours if it is in the library collection and longer if it is not). 

The same system is used for requesting any article which is unavailable from the library's collection. That service is called "interlibrary loan" or "ILL" for short.

Before you use Scan & Deliver OR ILL for the first time, you need to register.  You can get this done ahead of time by going to:  https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/FirstTime.html

• Read over the registration information and then follow the "first time users click here" button
• From then on, you will either go directly to the login page at https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/ when you have an article you can't find OR
• be sent there directly when you are using the 360-link to fulltext in a database

If you use GoogleScholar remember that you can set your "Scholar Preferences" so that it knows you are part of OSU by noting your "Library Links" as:

• Oregon State University Libraries -- find it at OSU  (essential for journal articles)
• Open WorldCat - Library Search (good for books)

If you have not started in a database or the catalog, you will find the link to Scan & Deliver (and Interlibrary Loan) is located under the "FIND IT" tab on the library home page.