LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES

  

In FOR 202 you need to locate several articles on specific insect species, management, what sorts of ecological effects or functions it might have, the extent and severity of the outbreaks, etc.

 Here's what you do!

Databases let you use keywords to search for articles on specific topics.  If you want to locate an article on a specific topic, go to the Campus Library webpage (at http://campuslibrary.cocc.edu/) and click on Databases: Articles & More.

CHOOSE A DATABASE:

Academic Search Premier,    AGRICOLA and BioOne are good databases for the field of forestry and etymology.  

NOTE: If the database offers only the citation for an item, you can still often locate the actual article using our electronic journal collection...OR...we may have the print issues of some of the journals you find...OR you can use interlibrary loan to order the article.  More on this later!

SHORTCUT! 

If you are in the COCC Barber Library Building...go to the OSU Cascades Library databases page at http://osulibrary.orst.edu/research.php/db.php?arg=a and use THEIR version of Academic Search Premier.  That way you can use their direct links to full text journals...they have many more full text journals in forestry and entomology than we do at COCC! 


SEARCHING DATABASES:

For any of these databases, type in your keywords (the most important words having to do with the topic you are interested in) within the search form provided.  Browse the results and look for articles listed within the journals required by your assignment.
 

Search forms for Academic Search Premier and AGRICOLA  will look like this:

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DATABASE SEARCH HINTS:

  • start with keyword searching--think of various words that pertain to your topic...
     More keywords means a narrower search!

  • use " " for phrases: "pandora moth"

  • use * to locate endings to words (truncation):  *

  • or commands link synonyms:

  • and commands combine concepts: black and stain and root and disease

  • use the pull down menu to limit searches to article titles

  • you can limit searches to scholarly articles in many databases.
 

OK!  Let's say you've chosen your database, done your search, and you've found some great items in your results list. How do you get to the actual articles?!

  1. Look for a pdf or html full text icon below the citation information for your article

    ...OR...

  2. Look for a note underneath the citation that says we have this journal in our print journal collection...then go to our print journal collection (main floor of the library) and look it up.  Our print journal collection in the field of forestry includes:

                    Journal of Forestry
                     Forest Science
                     Forest Log
                    Journal of Forest History
                    Journal of Range Management
    ...OR...

  3. If the article is citation only, look for the interlibrary loan link below the citation information

    ...OR...

  4. If you think that we might have this journal in electronic format via another database, go to our
    electronic journals.  Find this link towards the bottom of the COCC Barber Library webpage.  For more info. on accessing the COCC or OSU electronic journal collections (this works best if you have a known article citation), click here.

Finally, how do you create a bibliographic citation for the articles you found?

Here's an example citation for an article in print format:

Vernes, K. 1999.  Pellet counts to estimate density of a rainforest kangaroo.  Wildlife Society Bulletin 27:991-996.

Here's an example citation for an article located as full text within a database:

Savage, E. Mumps outbreaks across England and Wales in 2004. American Journal of Medicine [Acacemic Search Premier--Internet]. [cited 2007 April 16]; 330(7500):119-1120.  Available from: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=116&sid=b8732e5d-4416-4204-9add-54d67d5148a2%40sessionmgr107.

Here's an example citation for a webpage:

APSnet: plant pathology online [Internet]. c1994-2005. St. Paul (MN): American Phytopathological Association; [cited 2007 April 16].  Available from: http://www.apsnet.org/

 For more information on CSE Citation Formats (use the bibliography examples--not the 'in text' examples:
http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/csegd.php