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Search 1Search to find books, online scholarly articles or newspaper articles that OSU subscribes to or can borrow for you for free. If you need to find specific items, such as books by a particular author, use the advanced search option for more precise searching. Use the drop-down menu to access the journal title search to find specific journal titles like the Journal of Ecology. Click Databases A-Z to find specialized subject search tools like Web of Science or Academic Search Complete.
In most of the library's databases, look for this button (or a link with the FindIt@OSU text) to try and access your article online.
When looking for articles, you will see that some articles are available immediately online from our library in full text. First, click on the Full text available link, then choose a full text link in the View It section of the page to get the article online.
Within 1Search, you may see articles with a "check for available services" link. Click that link, then look under the "How to get it" section for "Request from Interlibrary Loan" to place a request for that article.
In many OSU Libraries Databases and in Google Scholar, look for the 
button to open the full article.
If the library doesn't have it, request the article for free from Interlibrary Loan.
Watch this video to learn how to set up your OSU interlibrary loan account so you can get articles emailed to you — even when OSU Libraries doesn't have a subscription to the journal.
Watch this video to learn how to place a request through OSU's interlibrary loan.
Step 1: To make Google Scholar talk to the OSU Libraries collection, go to the Settings link, located on the top left corner of the page:
Step 2: Click the gear icon. Depending on your display, this icon may be on the upper right or on the bottom of the settings menu.
Step 3: On the left-hand side of the Scholar Settings page, choose Library links.
Step 4: Next either search for Oregon State University in the search box or simply use the checkbox next to Oregon State University. Make sure you click Save.
Now, when you do a search, your results list will look like this. Click on the Find it at OSU link to get to either the full-text of the article or an easy option for requesting the article through interlibrary loan. Notice that if the article doesn't have a Find it at OSU link, you can click on the More symbol (two arrow-like symbols) to try and Find at OSU.
Sometimes Google Scholar results do not have the Find it at OSU link. However, if there is a PDF item included in the search result, that will take you directly to a PDF- no OSU access needed.
