LibGuides: BRR 200: Science and Research: Explore Search Tools

Start Broadly - 1Search

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.

Google Scholar

A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Find out how to set your preferences in Google Scholar, so you can use OSU Libraries subscriptions to get free access to content that is not free on the web:

How to use Google Scholar (without Paying for the Articles)

Start Broadly - Web of Science

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database with scholarly articles from thousands of journals. Because it highlights connections between articles, it's a great place to start your research.

Click the Find it @ OSU button to get to the full-text of the article.

Health & Genetics Databases

Medline (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals back to 1950.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Index to research articles covering all areas of medicine including clinical and experimental medicine; dentistry; health care administration; microbiology; nursing; paramedical professions; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; reproductive biology; psychiatry; psychology; toxicology; and veterinary medicine. PubMed is direct from the National Library of Medicine web site.
Abstracts and index: 1966-present
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Proxy enabled to ensure optimal access for ONID users

Environmental Sciences Databases

Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Formerly Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)

Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary index to research articles from all fields in the environmental sciences. Indexes U.S. government environmental impact statements. Abstracts and index: 1967-present
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, government reports, books, dissertations and conference papers covering all biological and ecological aspects of marine and freshwater environments.
Abstracts and index: 1978-present

Plant & Soil Databases

Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Formerly Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)

Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary index to research articles from all fields in the environmental sciences. Indexes U.S. government environmental impact statements. Abstracts and index: 1967-present

CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive database of its kind, CAB Abstracts gives
instant access to over 11 million research records across agriculture,
the environment, and applied life sciences. It is one of the most trusted
databases in the applied life sciences by researchers, librarians, faculties,
students, and practitioners alike.
AGRICOLA (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Links to over 300 journals in Academic Search Premier.
1970 - present

Bioengineering Databases

Compendex (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
Engineering Village (Compendex) covers all areas of engineering including: acoustical; aerospace; automotive; biological; chemical; civil; computer; electrical; electronic; energy;environmental; geologic; mechanical; metallurgical; mining; and robotics.
CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive database of its kind, CAB Abstracts gives
instant access to over 11 million research records across agriculture,
the environment, and applied life sciences. It is one of the most trusted
databases in the applied life sciences by researchers, librarians, faculties,
students, and practitioners alike.

Education Databases

ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Index to research articles, government and independent reports and conference papers covering all areas of education at all levels.
1966-present. Includes links to full-text journal articles when available. EDRS documents that are not available online may be located in the OSU Valley Library microfiche collection by ED number.
Education Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Education Source covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Source provides indexing and abstracts for 6. million articles found within more than 3,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals and 530 books and monographs. Also provided are numerous education-related conference papers, and 475 videos from Simple K12.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, series and books for all areas of psychology including animal, applied, clinical, developmental, educational, general, human experimental, general, physiological, social and sport psychology, and treatment and prevention.
Abstracts and index: 1887-present

Pharmacy Databases

Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder) This link opens in a new window
SciFinder provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with more than 20 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more. CAS Registry contains more than 24,000,000 substance records, including more than 16,000,000 organic and inorganic substances and 4,000,000 biosequences. The Registry is the world's largest collection of organic substance records.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Index to research articles covering all areas of medicine including clinical and experimental medicine; dentistry; health care administration; microbiology; nursing; paramedical professions; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; reproductive biology; psychiatry; psychology; toxicology; and veterinary medicine. PubMed is direct from the National Library of Medicine web site.
Abstracts and index: 1966-present
(Proxy enabled to ensure optimal access for ONID users)
Proxy enabled to ensure optimal access for ONID users

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BRR 200: Science and Research

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Google Scholar

Start Broadly - Web of Science

Health & Genetics Databases

Environmental Sciences Databases

Plant & Soil Databases

Bioengineering Databases

Education Databases

Pharmacy Databases

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