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.
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:
It can be challenging to find the full text of an article, report or data. WorldCat is where many libraries worldwide share their holding records. When seeking hard to find resources, it is useful to ask yourself "Who/what group would have written or contracted a report on this area/topic?"
Here are some other basic strategies:
