Sheena Campbell
Student Services Department
Student Services Librarian
530-752-3058
SAS/PLS 12: Plants and Society
by Sheena M Campbell – November 15, 2021
Library Tools and Services
Resources to help you find, evaluate and use information.
Find resources to help you follow the APA, MLA or CSE style guidelines for formatting and citing information sources.
Software to organize and automatically reformat your bibliographies. Compare popular citation management products: EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, and Sciwheel
Document your search process, so you can easily update and build upon it. This useful template for note taking was developed by Carrol Community College.
Find Print & eBooks
Search the Library Catalog for Print & eBooks:
- UCD Library Catalog Search
If you Sign in (on top right corner) using your UCD login and Kerberos passphrase, you are prompted with your loan period, can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.
ACCESSING PRINT BOOKS
UC Davis has a life sciences collection on the 3rd floor of Shields Library (Biological, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences) and the Carlson Health Sciences Library.
- Biological, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Shields Library: The BioAgEnvi Sciences print collections are located mainly on the 3rd floor of Shields Library. Some collections in the environmental sciences are located on the 2nd floor in the G classification areas.
- Carlson Health Sciences Library, Southwest UCD campus: The veterinary science collection is also located in the Carlson Health Sciences Library.
How to find books in the library:
Identifying Peer Reviewed Resources
Watch a 2 min video describing the peer review process
How to tell if a source is peer-reviewed
| Look for limits/filters
Many databases allow you to specify that you want to search only in “peer-reviewed” or “refereed” sources. |
Visit the journal’s webpage
Search online for your journal’s title. Sections like “about this journal” or “editorial policies” generally mention whether the journal is peer-reviewed/refereed. |
Check a directory Use the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory to find key information about a journal, including whether it has a peer-review process. |
Most literature databases provide a description of articles, or other literature resources, that allows you to find them among thousands of sources. However, there is often another step required to access a full-text copy. This extra step is facilitated through the “Get it at UC” button, found on the item record.
By clicking on the “Get it at UC” button a search will be conducted through all of the Library’s databases and collections to locate a copy of the article that you can access in the full-text. Not all articles will be accessible in this way, as “Get it at UC” button can only connect you to material licensed or owned by the library.
However, we can borrow material from other libraries, if you put in an Interlibrary Loan request. If we do not own a journal or book, you can make an Interlibrary Request that the item be sent to you for free from another UC library — often using Web delivery if the item is an article or book chapter.
- Watch how to make an Interlibrary Loan request for articles not available in the library collection.
Search Google Scholar
If there is a record of a journal article on the open internet, you can use Google Scholar to find it. Accessing the article may require you to go through your library subscription, or to find a physical copy in the library.
You can access library licensed articles directly in Google Scholar if you configure your Google Scholar settings to work with our library subscriptions.
- Step 1: Open your Google Scholar settings, and choose “Library Links” from the menu bar.
- Step 2: Search for and select the following: University of California, Davis- Select “Get it at UC“
Resources on Climate Change and Agriculture
Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems
Chapters provide background information on various aspects of climate change and agriculture, with links to additional sources.
Find global and national agricultural data.
From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
California Agricultural Statistics
From the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
California Agricultural Export Statistics
From the University of California, Davis, Agricultural Issues Center.
California Climate Change Projections
From Cal-Adapt.
Agricultural Economics Resources
From the Agricultural Issues Center at UC Davis.
From the US Department of Agriculture.
UN Climate Programme: Science & Data Portal
Real-time data tools and platforms to key reports, publications, fact sheets, interactives, and more.