HMSC REU Library Guide

Guin Librarian

Janet Webster
Office Location: Guin Library, HMSC
Contact Info:
541-867-0108

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Library and information guide for Research Experience for Undergraduates Interns at HMSC

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Obtaining journal articles from OSU Libraries

Get This Item: Many of the databases listed above contain a button called "Get This Item" or "Webbridge." Using this link will open a window with links to the library catalog and to the e-journal list so you can investigate the availability of the source journal. In the ideal case, it will result in a direct link to the full-text of the article.
E-Journal list: If you have a reference and want to see if OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of that journal (or some service that provides the full-text from that journal), click the E-Journals link on the Library's home page and type in the name of the journal that you need. If the article you need is not available from the E-Journals list, then try the catalog.
Online Catalog: Search the online catalog (limit to "journals") to see if the library has a paper copy of the journal. You can then photocopy the article. Most bound journals circulate for three days. Unbound journals do not circulate outside the library.
** If you choose, you can try a Google Advanced Search. It is best to search the title of the article as an exact phrase). This is a long shot so if it doesn't work immediately, a better use of you time is checking to see if the library has the journal in some format and if not, filling out the interlibrary loan request form. If you decide to post your own articles to the web, be sure that you know what copyright restrictions apply by contacting the publisher. When this is allowed, it is more often the case that you are allowed post the pre-formated version (of your own articles only) but not the final journal formated version.
The indexing databases are independent of the holdings of any one library so you should expect that OSU Libraries will not subscribe to or own every journals you need. You will need to use Interlibrary loan to obtain the articles.

LibraryFind Search

Library Find will get you started finding articles and books.

Accessing library databases

Don't know how to get to the OSU Libraries databases?

To locate references to articles in the scientific literature using these indexing databases, begin at the OSU Libraries home page: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu. Click on "Databases," and then on the first letter of the name of the database you want to use. Because they are not all provided on the same web "platform" you cannot (with a few exceptions) search across several databases as once.

Most databases are not freely available to the public. They are licensed to the library for OSU use. So, as an REU intern, you will have to be in the Guin Library or on a computer on the OSU network to get into the databases. Ask Janet for help if this is confusing.

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Here are the main links you'll need from the OSU Libraries Home Page:

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