Locating print and full text articles
If you are searching a database, use the Find Full Text links in citations to see if Morris Library has the article online.
If you have an article citation and you are not in a database:
Use I-Share @ Morris LIbrary to find print and electronic journals
Use Find E-Journal Database on the Journals page to locate electronic journals
If Morris Library doesn't have the print or full text journal, order the article using Interlibrary Loan.
EndNote Web tutorials
EndNote Web is available via Web of Knowledge. Use the Help documentation within the database or one of these resources to get started.
Official Quick Reference Card (PDF)
Zotero Quick Start Guide
Zotero is another citation management tool. This freely available software allows you to format citations, save files, attach notes, and insert citations into Word documents. You may sync your Zotero files from one computer to another.
See the Quick Start Guide
CSE style guides
CSE (Council of Science Editors) style is used by many biology journals.
Librarians at the Ohio State University Libraries have created an online guide.
Bedford/St. Martins has also created an online guide.
Morris Library has a copy of the 7th edition of Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers in the First Floor Reference section, call number: T11 .S386 2006 .
Databases
Choose databases that match your topic (read the descriptions below or contact me for suggestions). When searching for a specific organism, use both common and scientific names. Use subject headings (descriptors) if available.
- AGRICOLA (EBSCO, OneSearch)AGRICOLA (U.S. National Agricultural Library) focuses on agriculture, but contains information about domestic animal-wildlife interactions and the U.S. national parks. Citations to articles, books, government reports etc. are from 1970 to present.
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries AbstractsASFA contains citations to journal articles, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. You may also want to search Water Resources Abstracts.
- Biological Abstracts - ISI Web of Knowledge Biological Abstracts contains citations to articles about the life sciences and biomedical research published in more than 4,000 journals internationally. Online coverage: 1990-present. Morris Library also has the older print volumes of this index.
- CAB Abstracts (EBSCO, OneSearch)Contains citations to journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, books, annual reports etc. in all agricultural fields as well as forestry, nutrition, veterinary medicine, and biological information. Coverage: 1990-present.
- Environment Index (EBSCO, OneSearch)"Environment Index provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies." Some coverage goes back to the 1940s.
- GEOREFGEOREF contains citations to articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, and theses, about soils and other geological sciences, with coverage back to 1966.
- Google ScholarThis general search engine includes citations to journal articles and freely available full-text items. Dates of coverage vary. Use the Find it Morris link to find the article in Morris Library's databases. Also contains links to open access documents.
- GreenFILE (EBSCO, OneSearch)GreenFILE indexes popular and scholarly journals, reports, and government documents about the human impact on the environment. It includes citations to agriculture, education, health, law, and technology materials. Dates of coverage vary.
- JSTOR (OneSearch)JSTOR contains fulltext articles from *older* zoology, aquatic sciences, biology, ecology, and environmental sciences journals. Dates of coverage vary.
- Oceanic AbstractsThis database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Coverage: 1981-present.
- TOXNETTOXNET is a group of databases about toxicology, hazardous chemicals, etc., from the US National Library of Medicine.
- Water Resources AbstractsCovers the "characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources." Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, a related database, covers "the marine environment and biological material."
- Watershed Science and Policy (Research Guide)
- Web of KnowledgeThis collection of databases includes Web of Science, which may be used to search for cited references as well as topics. It also includes a citation manager (EndNote Web) as well as Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, and Zoological Record. Note: Web of Science is included in OneSearch back to 1989, but we have records back to 1956 available via the individual database search. Biological Abstracts, Zoological Abstracts, and Journal Citation Reports are not availabe in OneSearch.
- Zoological RecordContains citations to articles about animals published in "journals, magazines, newsletters, monographs, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings" from 1978 to present. Morris Library has the print version of this index back to volume 1.
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