Many of the resources listed are limited to members of Ohio University. If you are using the Guide off-campus, you will need to do a brief login to identify yourself as a member of Ohio University before you can use these resources.
Indexes to articles about geography, earth sciences, ecology, planning, geology and remote sensing from journals, books, proceedings, reports and dissertations.
Citations for doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 550 United States and international institutions. (Selected masters theses and international dissertations included since 1988.) Provides free access to the electronic texts (PDF files) of all Ohio University dissertations published 1997 forward.
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, social sciences and arts and humanities. Includes tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches for scholarly journals, books, theses, conference papers, etc.
Some things to note:
It lacks most of the search limiting functions of other article databases.
Google does not make clear what journals it searches or excludes or what years are covered.
Google's definition of "scholarly" may not agree with ours!
Never pay for an article! C&P the title into Articles Plus to see if we have it. IF not, use Interlibrary Loan to request it for free.
Did you know?
You can set Google Scholar to find the full text of articles in OU Libraries:
Click on the icon.
Configure the settings like this:
should show up in your search results. You may have to login to get to the full text.