LibGuides: *Fisheries, Wildlife &amp; Conservation Sciences: Find Articles

Fisheries & Wildlife Librarian

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Subjects: Agricultural Sciences, Animal Sciences, BioResource Research, Botany and Plant Pathology, Crop and Soil Science, Entomology, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Sciences, Food Science and Technology, Horticulture, Microbiology, Rangeland Sciences

Ecampus Services

The OSU Libraries provides various services for students who are taking this course through Ecampus. The Ecampus library services page has the most complete information.

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)

Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Sciences Databases

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
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of wildlife research.
Index only: 1935-present
Concurrent Users: 5
Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of fish and fisheries research.
Index only: 1971-present
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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
Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
Birds of the World is a research database that brings together scholarly content from four major works of ornithology [Birds of North America, The Handbook of Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World], millions of bird observations from eBird, and multimedia content from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. Birds of the World presents a vast array of information about every species, subspecies, and family of the world's birds. Accounts include images, sounds, and videos as well as illustrations, maps, animations, and authoritative text from all of the component projects.
Morphobank This link opens in a new window
A web application with tools and archives for evolutionary research, specifically systematics. Provide tools for the expansion and modernization of phylogenetic work on the phenotype.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Excellent for access to peer-reviewed science.

Social & Political Databases

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni User Guide

Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis (including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790) with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Politics Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This collection, which includes PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.

Finding the full text of an article

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.

Finding Fish

Here are two resources for finding information about fish. FishNet focuses on musuem records and is useful for getting a list of local species. FishBase is international and useful for locating species by various common names and identifying the literature describing those species.

FishNet
OSU Fish collection is in this database. Use "OS" in the Institution Code box to get a listing of those specimens.
FishBase
Find information of fish species throughout the world.
OSU Ichthyology Collection
Search for identifications, metadata, maps, tissues, and images associated with the more than 200,000 specimens in the Ichthyology Collection.

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Ecampus Services

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Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Sciences Databases

Social & Political Databases

Finding the full text of an article

Finding Fish

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