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*Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences

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

Google Scholar

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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, and Conservation Sciences Databases

Social & Political Databases

Finding the full text of an article

 Look for the 360 link to full text 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. On average, articles arrive digitally within one business day.

Finding Fish

Atlalntic sturgeon from NY 192701949 survey

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.