Principles of Wildlife Conservation
Finding Articles in Specific Journals

OK...Bret wants you to write reviews of three journal articles from any of the following journals.  All of these journals are in the COCC Library collection.  Several of them are also searchable via the COCC Library database Academic Search Premier.  Here's the journals:

Condor (searchable in Academic Search Premier)

Journal of Mammalogy (searchable in Academic Search Premier)

Northwest Science

Journal of Range Management

Ecology (searchable in Academic Search Premier)

Wilson Bulletin

Journal of Wildlife Management  (searchable in Academic Search Premier)

Wildlife Society Bulletin (searchable in Academic Search Premier)

If you are not very picky about your topic, you can browse through any of the journals from Bret's list (they will be alphabetically arranged by journal title in the print periodical collection across from the information desk on the main floor of the library) and stumble across a few articles that might interest you.  You may also want to check the same journal titles in our current periodical collection, which is located just south of the rotunda--again, on the main floor of the library.

Once you want to focus on a particular topic, however, you will want to use a periodical database to identify specific articles on that topic. 

You can tell the database to search for articles on your topic and to limit that search to one journal title from Bret's list. 

You can also tell the database to retrieve articles from your topic (from one particular journal or from a whole slew of journals) within a particular date range.  Bret wants you to focus on articles published 2000 and beyond.  Here's how you get started:

• Go to the COCC Library webpage at http://campuslibrary.cocc.edu/.
   

• Click on Databases: Articles & More
   

• Choose See all COCC databases A-Z, then choose Academic Search Premier
   

Academic Search Premier offers a lot of full text articles, but the journals Bret wants you to use are available in the database only as citations: that is, only the journal title, article title, author, volume numbers, date and page numbers are provided.  That's ok though because all the journals on Bret's list are in our library.  Once you have the citation information, you can find the actual articles in the COCC Library!

Once you are in Academic Search Premier, here's what you do:
 

• type a few simple keywords in to the search form.  Keep it simple because you are going to limit your search to a specific journal title and date range.  Don't click on "search" yet!
   

• scroll down the search form a bit until you see the following and type in a likely journal title from Bret's list.  All the red titles in the list above are indexed in the Academic Search Premier database--those are the ones you want to use.

  Publication

   

• Look for the date range limit box and type in your date range--remember, Bret wants you to locate articles after 2000.
   

  Published Date

  Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec   Yr:   to   Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec   Yr:

   

• The entire search form should look something like this:
   

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Database: Academic Search Premier    Database Help Find:  beaver*                                                                                   Search Tips Folder is empty.   Limit your results: Limiters | Expanders     Full Text References Available   Published Date Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec   Yr:   to   Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec   Yr: Publication   Publication Type None Applied Periodical Newspaper Book Primary Source Document Educational Report Number Of Pages Articles With Images None Applied PDF Text with Graphic

Once you click on the search button your results list will consist of citations to articles within the journal Ecology.

Your next step is to identify which citations best correspond to your topic.  Look at the results list...you can click on the icon next to each citation in your list in order to save it to a folder.
 

Then click on "folder has items" (towards the top of your screen) to see all the citations you've saved.
 

Print out your saved list from Academic Search Premier. THEN go to the COCC Library's print journal collection (across from the information desk on the main floor, remember?) and locate your journal title.  Look for the date and volume listed on your citation.  Grab the journal you need and turn to the page numbers listed in your citation.

Repeat your search in Academic Search Premier with other journal titles from Bret's list.  You can click on the "back" button, and change the journal title while keeping the rest of your search parameters the same.