This guide is designed to help you find scholarly articles on your recitation topic.

Start by using one of the broad search tools listed on below: 1Search, Google Scholar, or Web of Science.

Learn more about 1Search and Web of Science on the next two tabs.

Next try one of the more subject-specific search tools suggested below your recitation topic.

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.

Web of Science is one of the most popular databases for scientific researchers. Find scholarly articles from a wide range of science fields.

Explore the connections between articles with quick links to citation information.

Use Journal Citation Reports to learn about a journal's impact factor. The impact factor is based on how often articles within that journal are cited and can be used as one indicator of the prestige and readership of that journal in a particular field. To use Journal Citation Reports, enter the name of the journal you're interested in. Try searching for several journals to learn how the impact numbers compare to each other.

Tips: Web of Science and SciFinder have a scientific or technical focus; Academic Search Premier includes both scientific articles as well as popular sources that can represent the consumer viewpoint. In either of the databases, start with a few broad keywords, but then add in more keywords or use the narrowing options on the sides of the search results pages to clarify your results. You will likely need to use more than one database to find sources.

Note - SciFinder Scholar is free for you to use as an OSU student, but you have to set up an account.

Tips - this is a huge topic, consider adding specific challenges to your search (e.g., climate change, salinization, drought, supply chain, conflict). Be on the lookout for alternative terms for technology (e.g., smart agriculture).

If you are using phrases like "food sustainability" in your search, be sure to include quotes around the phrase to help focus your search on that specific idea.

Both the Agricultural & Environmental Science and the CAB databases contains many government and NGO reports as well as scientific articles. Consider reading the reports as they may have concrete information on what types of projects are being discussed or funded.