COD Library: Botany: Articles

Scientific Botany Information

Academic Search Ultimate
Contains a mixture of popular and scholarly sources, covering topics from science to current events.
Science Direct

Science Direct provides indexing and full-text journal articles in the sciences and social sciences, including chemistry, medicine, computer science, earth science, economics, business, engineering, energy, environmental science, life science, materials science, mathematics, physics, and astronomy. This is a good source for scholarly research in those subjects.
JSTOR Global Plants
Access 2.5 million specimens in the Global Plants database, as well as collector's correspondence, and diaries, paintings, drawings, and other notes taken by botanists.
AGRICOLA

Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports to support agricultural research.

Cultural Botany Information

JSTOR
JSTOR has a number of anthropological and historical journals that discuss plant usage associated with culture
AnthroSource
AnthroSource is a full-text collection of journals published by the American Anthropological Association spanning nearly a century's worth of Anthropology scholarship. Search for plants with strong cultural associations (tobacco, rice) here.
Britannica Academic
The online version of the classic Encyclopedia Britannica will also include summaries of cultural impact.

Requesting Articles

Finding a citation for an article you'd like, but no full-text (or you're being asked to pay for the article?) Follow the steps below to see how to best access the article:

Start by searching Journal Locator by the journal name.
If the results give you a database name, great! Click on the link and search by article title.
If there are no relevant results, head to the Article InterLibrary Loan form. (Find more info about Interlibrary Loan.)
Fill out the Article form. In about 5 business days, you should get an electronic copy of the article in your email.

Make steps 1 and 2 seamless by adding the LibKey Nomad to your favorite browser. LibKey Nomad will search our databases to see if or where the COD Library might be able to provide an article in full-text and then bring you to it. Find out more about LibKey Nomad.