Research Trees - UGS 302: The Land Before Us - Bsumek - LibGuides at University of Texas at Austin

Background Information

Start with background information (like what you find in Wikipedia) to learn more about your tree.

Trees of Central Texas by Robert A. Vines
ISBN: 0292758383
Publication Date: 2013-08-28
A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas.

Gale eBooks
Searches background sources from across disciplines.

TIP: If you are getting irrelevant results, try searching for your tree name as a Document Title rather than keyword. Or after you do a keyword search, use the "Subjects" filter on the right side of the screen.
Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.

For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Texas Reference Center
Search for your tree name and find background information and magazine articles.
Updated weekly. Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage.

Libraries search tool
Search across the majority of the libraries sources (both print and online)

Academic Search Complete
Articles from newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals from across disciplines. Great starting place,
Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
JSTOR
Scholarly articles from all disciplines.
Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Nexis Uni
Articles from local, state, national and international newspapers, some back to the 1980s
Updated continually. Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

AGRICOLA
Agriculture, ecology, forestry.
Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.
GreenFILE
Sources covering human impact to the environment
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records.

Local Newspapers

Daily Texan
Find current and historical issues of the Daily Texan.
Austin American Statesman (Historical), 1871-1980
Austin American-Statesman, 1997-2019
Once in the database, use the drop down in the top row to select (SO) journal name and type in "Austin-American Statesman." Then type keywords in the other boxes.
Austin American-Statesman, 2007-present
Once you are in the database, choose Search. Once on the search page, click on the blue arrow by "source" and type in Austin American-Statesman. Then type your keywords into the search box and you'll be just searching the Statesman.

UT Trees

UT's Urban Forestry page
Includes links to notable trees on campus and memorial trees (planted to honor someone's memory). Maybe your tree is here?
Interactive Map of Campus Trees
In 2016, UT inventoried every tree on campus and created this database with info about the tree and its environmental benefits.
UT's Landscape Master Plan

Troubleshooting Map of Campus Trees

If you aren't seeing trees or the tree and street map layers aren't working together, click on layers (red circle in middle of diagram) and make sure you have checked all the options in the menu encircled in red.