Online access to journals

As you are researching a topic, you may wish to peruse the following indexes for further information and resources:

Directory of Open Access Journals
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals." Includes listings for journals from a variety of subject areas and countries. Searchable, and browsable by subject or journal title. From Lund University Libraries, Sweden.

AGRICOLA and the NAL Catalog
In addition to the National Agricultural Library (NAL) catalog, this site contains AGRICOLA, a database of citations from "journal articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints." Covers "all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, [and] agricultural economics." Searchable by keyword, and browsable by title, author, and subject. Includes browsable list of indexed journals.

Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals
"These are links to journals in which articles concerning plant biology are published. The sites will almost always have a Tables of Contents available free and may frequently have selected articles, or the entire text online."

A wealth of reading

Are you missing an issue or two of your favorite gardening magazine? Wondering how you will ever catch up? Can't afford to subscribe to all those fabulous magazines you see when you're at your favorite bookstore drinking coffee? Well never fear! The Sterling Morton Library has come to the rescue! We have a comprehensive collection of gardening, horticulture, and landscape design magazines just waiting for you. From popular favorites like Garden Design, Fine Gardening and Horticulture, to niche interests, such as plant society publications, we have it all. Stop in and browse our collection. You will find back issues as well as online and paper indexes to help you find exactly what you need.

Just a note: Magazines do not circulate. Please feel free to enjoy them in the quiet solitude of the library.

Below is a brief representative list. Stop in to see the full collection.

General:

Horticulture
Garden Design
Fine Gardening
Organic Gardening
Chicagoland Gardening
Garden Gate
Gardens Illustrated



Niche:

American Fern Journal
American Rhododendron Society
American Rose Magazine
Birdwatchers Digest
The Botanical Artist
Daylily Journal
Herb Quarterly
International Bonsai
Rock Garden Quarterly


Everything else:

Arboriculture Journal
Audubon
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Journal of Forestry
Garden History
Hort Technology
Hortus: a Gardening Journal
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Landscape Architecture
Smithsonian
Systematic Botany

Wandering with Edwin Way Teale

After a morning of discussing this month’s book selection, Wandering Through Winter and all-things-Edwin-Way-Teale, I thought I would prowl around a little more for further resources relating to this author’s life and work. Native son of Joliet, Teale’s papers including field notes and drafts for each of his books, early childhood writings, professional writings for magazines, newspapers and book reviews, correspondence- both personal and professional, personal and family documents, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as his photographs (prints, negatives, and transparencies) can be found in the Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries. Of special note, are the sections containing biographical information about Teale and a finding aid to this wonderful UConn collection.

Discussion of Teale’s Hoosier connection:
http://www.bsu.edu/ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/tealeew.html

Additional biographical information about him:
http://www.naturewriting.com/edwinway.htm

Information about Trail Wood, the Teale property, donated to and preserved by the Connecticut Audubon Society:
http://www.ctaudubon.org/visit/trailwood.htm

Please visit the Sterling Morton Library to read some of this significant nature writer’s other works including Dune Boy, North with the Spring and Grassroot Jungles.

Walking in a winter wonderland!

Before you head out for a walk in the winter landscape, be sure to take one of these guides from the Sterling Morton Library to help you decipher the plants and mysterious tracks that you might see!

Brown, Lauren. Weeds in winter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976. [QK118.B7 1977]

Halfpenny, James C. Winter : an ecological handbook. Boulder : Johnson Books, 1989. [QH81.H35]

Levine, Carol. A guide to wildflowers in winter. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. [QK117.L48]

Marchand, Peter J. Life in the cold : an introduction to winter ecology. 2nd ed. Hanover : University Press of New England, 1991. [QH543.2.M37 1991]

Mason, George F. Animals tracks. New York : William Morrow, 1943. [SK282.M3]

Murie, Olaus J. A field guide to animal tracks. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1963. [SK282.M8]

Trelease, William. Winter botany : an identification guide to native trees and shrubs. 3rd ed. New York : Dover, 1967. [QK477.T84 1967]

Smith, Alice Upham. Trees in a winter landscape. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. [QK477.S64]

Articles of note in the Sterling Morton Library

These are some recent articles that can be found within the journal collection of the Sterling Morton Library. Please visit the Library to discover the incredible botanical and horticultural resources that await you! If you are unable to visit the Library and interested in reviewing one of these articles, a library staff member would be delighted to help you at library@mortonarb.org.

Di Maio, Rick. "Long, dry summer." Chicago Wilderness, v. 9, no. 1 (Fall 2005), p. 13.

Maddox, J. Dylan. "Nesting of birds in wetlands containing purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and Cattail (Typha spp.)." Natural Areas Journal, v. 25, no. 4 (October 2005), p. 369-373.

Miller, Frederic. "Drought and about in the Midwest." American Nurseryman, v. 203, no. 1 (January 1, 2006), p. 24-27.

Carlock, Marty. "For the birds : in Boston, a park attracts birds, and the birds attract people." Landscape Architecture, v. 96, no. 1 (January 2006), p. 36-45.

Fahmy, Amy. "Rethinking foundation plantings." Fine Gardening, no. 107 (January-February 2006), p. 40-44.

Burrell, C. Colston. "Solomon's new seals : the latest introductions from Japan and China take the shade garden to another level." Horticulture, v. 103, no. 1 (January/February 2006), p. 36-42.

Fei, Songlin. "Forest regeneration composition and development in upland, mixed-oak forests." Tree Physiology, v. 25, no. 12 (December 2005), p. 1495-1500.