Find books, online scholarly articles or newspaper articles that OSU subscribes to.  If you need to find specific items, such as books by a particular author, use the advanced search option for more precise searching. Access 1Search from the library's home page.

You do allow embedded content.

A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Begin with these databases to locate articles and research findings on specific agriculture topics.

Watch the Searching in Subject Databases video below to learn:

• the benefits of using subject-specific databases
• how to find subject databases in your area at OSU Libraries
• how to narrow your results, think of new keywords, and set up saved searches
• how to troubleshoot your search, especially when you have few or no results.

Note - use the chapter menu (three lines in the upper left corner of the video) to jump to different topics.

Practice Recommendations:

• Choose a subject database in your field
• Enter some search terms
• Practice narrowing your search
• Find new keyword ideas
• Open the full-text of an article
• Look for options for setting up search alerts

 Look for the button to open the full article.

Options for getting to the PDF will open in a new window. Sometimes the link will take you to the journal, not the individual article. Use the citation information for the article to get to the right year, volume and issue of the journal.

If the library doesn't have it, request the article for free from Interlibrary Loan: https://library.oregonstate.edu/illiad On average, articles arrive digitally in 13 hours.

Watch the citing with ZoteroBib video to learn how to quickly create bibliographies based on the sources you find in any database or search tool. ZoteroBib is a free, web-based tool.