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Google Scholar
Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
TreeSearch
U.S. Forest Service publications.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Indexes the world's leading peer reviewed journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and provides searching of cited references, from 1900-present. Install the LibKey Nomad extension to improve your research experience.

Other Relevant Databases

For an outline of a comprehensive science literature review, click here: Science Literature Review.

For tips on improving database search results, click here: Improving Database Search Results.

Suggested databases:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text scholarly journal, trade publication, magazine and newspaper articles, books, book reviews, reports, and Associated Press video content, covering all subject areas.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, technical reports, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service literature, and printed works dating back to the 15th century. Subjects include agriculture, botany, forestry, grazing, and range management. Produced by the National Agricultural Library.

Science.gov
Gateway to U.S. government science information.

Journals

Search specialized magazines and journals when looking for articles on your research topic. Some suggested browsing examples are:

To browse journal titles, click here: Mansfield Library Journals.

Browse or search ejournal packages (note: some allow keyword searching of article full text):

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Full text journal review articles synthesizing current research and understandings in science and social science disciplines. Complete archives-present provided for most AR titles. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Package title list: Annual Reviews
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
• Volume 1 through 2020.
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 200 journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text of all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Also explore 3+ million images from ARTstor and over 10,000 open access books. Note: The library does not license any collections of fee-based books from JSTOR. New collections added Aug 2023, are identified below. See more... for details.
ARTstor on JSTOR
Existing ARTstor logins automatically work on JSTOR. The separate artstor.org platform will be available until Aug 1, 2024, when it is scheduled to be retired.

Open Access books on JSTOR
More than 10,000 open access (OA) books from 125+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, University College of London, and University of California Press.

19th Century British Pamphlets
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities spanning more than one million pages. Brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.

New Collections Added Aug 2023
Thematic Collections
Three collections focusing on emerging areas of research and containing multiple types of content, including journals and open research reports. Collections include:
•Lives of Literature - Academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
•Security Studies - Academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues.
•Sustainability - Academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens spanning more than 30 disciplines.

Primary Sources
Global Plants
A growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type plant specimens and related materials from over 300 community contributors around the world.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images related to the liberation struggles and end of Apartheid in Southern Africa during the 20th Century, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

World Heritage Sites: Africa
More than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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The library's ScienceDirect journal package was cancelled for 2024, changes took effect on January 1, 2024. See the Post-cancellation access to Elsevier ScienceDirect articles guide for further details and options for obtaining articles from cancelled journals.
Springer This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 50,000 scholarly e-books published by Springer 2005-2015, and over 2,200 current e-journals, with coverage dating back to volume 1 for many titles. Subjects include: biomedicine; business and management; chemistry; computer science; earth sciences; economics; education; engineering; geography; history; law; life sciences; literature; materials science; mathematics; medicine & public health; pharmacy; philosophy; physics; political science and international relations; psychology; social sciences; statistics. Deselect 'Include Preview-Only' from the top of a subject or content page to limit browsing to titles licensed by the library. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Ejournal package title list: Springer
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
•All titles in the collection as of 2010 from Volume I through 1996.
•No perpetual access for 1997 to 2005.
•Perpetual access to all titles for 2006-2020.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 1,600 e-journals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Coverage is generally 1997-present. The library does not license all content offered on the Wiley site. The 'Full Access' lock icon denotes content available to UM users.

Peer Review in 3 Minutes
How do articles get peer reviewed? What role does peer review play in scholarly research and publication? This video will explain.
Video: Types of Sources
Watch the video for an explanation of types of information sources

To evaluate, compare, and rank journals using citation data, click on Journal Citation Reports or Scimago.

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
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Resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 11,000 journals dating back to 1997 and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Shows journal impact factors, highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals and largest journals.

Book Catalogs

Consider various subject headings appropriate to your research topic when searching for books in catalogs. A partial list of headings to use are: urban forestry; trees in cities; community forestry; tree planting; vegetation management.

Book catalog resources:

WorldCat (Discovery) This link opens in a new window
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Catalog of library resources held by institutions around the world. Find materials and place interlibrary loan requests for resources not owned locally.
WorldCat on the former FirstSearch platform is available from http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/worldcat-firstsearch

National Agricultural Library Catalog
All time periods; books, journal articles, media, government documents.
Google Books
All time periods; digitized books from library collections.

OneSearch This link opens in a new window
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The search engine for materials owned by the library, both on the shelf and online. Also provides millions of full text article and citation records harvested from publishers, open access repositories, and a large percentage of the library's licensed databases. Click here to view a list of databases with content not findable or only partially findable in OneSearch.
Tip: Remember to check "Include Results without Full Text" in the left-hand facets of OneSearch to expand your results set to citations matching your research interests; full-text can be acquired through interlibrary loan and delivered to you free of charge in a short amount of time.

Main Dewey Decimal call numbers for browsing Urban Forestry materials in the Mansfield Library book stacks are: 635.9

For a more detailed view of Dewey Decimal call numbers, click on: Dewey Decimal Classification Summaries.

Main Government Document call numbers for browsing Urban Forestry materials in the Mansfield Library book stacks or library catalog: A 13

Research Papers	A 13.78	(Initials of Station - Number of Paper)
Research Notes	A 13.79	(Initials of Station - Number of Note)
Resource Bulletin	A 13.80	(Initials of Station - Number of Bulletin)
General Technical Report	A 13.88	(Initials of Station - Number of Report)

U.S. Forest and Range Experiment Stations	Station Initials
Forest Products Laboratory	FPL
Intermountain Research Station	INT
North Central Forest Experiment Station	NC
Northeastern Forest Experiment Station	NE
Pacific NorthWest Forest and Range Experiment Station	PNW
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station	RM
Southeastern Forest Experiment Station	SE
Southern Forest Experiment Station	SO
U.S.D.A., Forest Service, Washington, D.C.	WO

See U.S. Forest Service Publications on the Forestry Research Guide at Humboldt State University for more information.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

Botanical Latin (580.14 S799)
The Concise Dictionary of Botany (581.03 C744)
Dictionary of Forestry (634.903 T319)
Dictionary of Plant Toxins (615.952 D554)
Dictionary of Wood Products Industry (674.058 H236)
Encyclopedia of Agricultural Science (630.3 E56)
Encyclopedia of Entomology - Online encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences - Online encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Horticulture (635.903 E93n)
Encyclopedia of World Timbers (634.97 B778)
Hortus third : A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States & Canada (634.03 B155)
Seeds of Woody Plants in North America (634.9562 Y73s 1992)
The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry (634.9 L776)
Terminology of Forest Science: Technology, Practice and Byproducts (634.903 T319)
Trees and Shrubs in Montana (582.1609786 T786)
Wikipedia - An encyclopedia that is written & edited anonymously & collaboratively.

Grants and Funding Sources

Current Research Information System (USDA)

Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Directory of 108,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grant-making public charities in the U.S.; a database of three million recently awarded grants; and a database of one million recently filed IRS forms 990 and 990-PF. Provides over 10,000 sources to help users identify scholarships, fellowships, or grants. This help article outlines how to search the database for grants to individuals.
Foundation Grants to Individuals This link opens in a new window
Content now available through Foundation Directory Online.

National Science Foundation Award Search

Web Sites - Search Engines

Some suggested search engines are:

Web Sites - Meta Sites & Directories - Urban Forestry

Citation Guides

Here are some resources to help you manage your bibliographies:

Related Library Guides

Ecology and Wildlife Biology

Environmental Studies

Fire Management

Forest Management

Geosciences (includes Climatology)

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

Urban Forestry Research Guide

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