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How to find Books
How to find Journals
Web Resources

Introduction to Morgan Library:

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How to find BOOKS in Morgan Library: (also look for government documents)

  • SAGE search for books or titles of journals (Does the library own the book with the title: water on the great plains?)
    • Title or author search is good if you know the exact title and the exact author's name
    • Do you have the book: Water wars : privatization, pollution and profit / by Vandana Shiva.
    • Word search is good if you have a topic, keyword, or if you aren't sure of the title
    • I am looking for a book by Arno about forest or flames, I am not sure of the title....
    • I need to find books on water conservation
    • Use the journal title or title search to locate the title of a journal (NOT the articles in the journal--use databases to find journal articles)
    • Does the library own the journal Bioscience? example

  • Soil Surveys in Morgan Library
    To search for soil surveys, go to SAGE and do a word search. If you are looking for the soil survey for the Fort Collins area, then you would do a word search:
    "soil survey and colorado and larimer"
    This gives you the Documents call number: A 57.38:L 32 for that survey.

    • NRCS Colorado Soil Surveys includes links to online soil surveys

  • Prospector searches CU-Boulder, Univ. of Denver, other libraries in this area. Good for books, not articles.

    What if I need a book or journal article or conference proceeding or dissertation and the library doesn't have it? Order from Interlibrary Loan ILL. It can take several days for an article, about two weeks for a book. Sign up for webview, get your articles via the web!

  • Help, I need a reference book on soil analysis. Ask at the Information Desk, the reference collection has good encyclopedias, overviews, etc. Do a word search in SAGE: soil* analysis and then limit to location: reference.

  • A book chapter can give you an overview on the topic, frame some of the issues, give you a starting point to expand your research.

How to find BOOKS or DISSERTATIONS not in Morgan Library:

  • Worldcat will let you search for books in ANY research library in the U.S.
  • Digital Dissertations will let you search for dissertations. Are you looking for someone who is a "Dr.", then check here for information on their dissertation.

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How to find TITLES OF JOURNALS in Morgan Library:

  • SAGE search for books or titles of journals (NOT articles in the journal--use DATABASES to find articles)
  • Does the library own the journal Bioscience? example

How to find GENERAL JOURNAL ARTICLES or NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

How to find SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLES on a topic, subject, or by an author

Use Databases to search, for journal articles on your topic or subject. The library has over 400 databases, this is a "short list" of starting points.
Set up your home computer to search databases at home/off-campus. Do you need help getting started, look at help with databases.

Be careful when you search databases for an author. Sometimes the databases use last name and first name, sometimes they use last name and just the first initial and middle initial. For example if you are searching for articles by Dr. Alan Covich you might search by:

  • Covich, Alan
  • Covich A
  • Covich A* (the * is if you don't know the middle initial of their name, the * acts as a "wild card")

List of Selected Indexes to Academic/Scholarly Articles, other databases available from the Agriculture Databases page. (go to the Databases page, then scroll down under select a subject to: agriculture, soil and crop sciences, weed sciences, or natural sciences)

  • Agricola 1970-present, updated monthly. Citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications. This extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture, forestry, and related fields. The literature cited is primarily in English, but over one-third of the database comprises citations in Western European, Slavic, Asian, and African languages.

  • AGRIS International 1975-present,updated monthly. AGRIS, the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology, was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to identify world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the
    literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. 199 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate and submit about 14.000 items per month. The system collects bibliographic references (to date, about 3 million) to either conventional (journal articles, books) or non-conventional materials (sometimes called "grey literature" e.g. theses, reports, etc.), not available through ordinary commercial channels. One of the main reasons for AGRIS' existence is to encourage the exchange of information among developing countries, whose literature would not be covered by other international systems.

  • ASAE Technical Library coverage varies, updated on demand. The site was launched in January 2001 with technical documents added as they were published through out the year. Each year nearly 20,000 pages of content will be added. Some material published prior to 2001 has been added to the site in PDF only format. More is scheduled to be added as funds allow.

  • Biological Abstracts 1980-present, updated quarterly. Citations and abstracts for articles with national and international coverage. Includes agriculture, biotechnology, botany, ecology, and other biological science subject areas. Approximately 75% of the records include abstracts.

  • Biological Sciences 1982-present, updated monthly. This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

  • Biological and Agricultural Index 1983-present, updated monthly. Citations and descriptor terms for articles from over 330 English language periodicals on biology, agriculture, forestry, and natural resources. Includes book reviews.

  • BioOne 2000-present, with some journal coverage back to 1998. Updates vary depending on journal. BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

  • CAB Abstracts 1972-present, updated quarterly. This database covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense including biotechnology, crop protection, forestry, rural development, veterinary medicine, and other topics. Journals, monographs, conferences, books, annual reports, and other sources from more than 100 countries are included in the database. Nearly all the records have English abstracts.

  • Ecology Abstracts 1969-present, updated monthly. Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. With coverage ranging from habitats to food chains, from erosion to land reclamation, the journal provides an important cross-section of current findings in target research areas. Comprehensive, yet carefully focused coverage makes this an essential resource for scientists concerned with preserving the environment.

  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management 1981-present, updated monthly. This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

  • FAO STAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.) Coverage and update frequency varies. FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery, Food Aid Shipments.

  • Microbiology Abstracts A: Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts 1982-present, updated monthly. Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this journal, making it an indispensable resource for research laboratories and academic libraries in any of these areas: Microbial Degradation, Food Microbiology, Microbial Toxins, Plant Diseases, Post-Harvest Decay, Plant Protection, Forestry, Soil Microorganisms, Mineral Microbiology, Protection of Materials, Hydrocarbons, Microbial Resistance, Antimicrobial Agents.

  • Plant Science 1994-present, updated monthly. Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focussing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Over 250 primary research journals are scanned by specialized scientific editors to add approximately 23,000 titles to the database each year. From July 1996 onwards, informative abstracts have been added when available.

  • Web of Science 1945-present, updated weekly. The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, including forestry. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

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Web Resources

 

Allison Level originally created the content of this page, but as of June 2007 it is no longer being updated.



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