English Resources Online
at the UH West O‘ahu Library
For links to all
library resources, go to the UH West O'ahu Library Research Page
To search multiple
databases at once, use UH West O‘ahu QuickSearch
Academic Search
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest
scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for
academic institutions. With the most valuable and most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals, Academic
Search Premier offers critical information from many sources found in no other
database. This resource contains full text for over 3,600 scholarly
publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as
color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal
coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
American Memory Collection at
the Library of Congress
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source
materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site
offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical
collections.
Bartleby.com
Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature,
nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop
of each and every Internet participant. Since its incorporation in 1999 and the
release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com has become (in
their own words) "the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web,
meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious."
Cambridge History of English and
American Literature
Considered the most important work of literary
history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303
chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction,
drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set
encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper
columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and
even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot"
issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social issues to
environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports
produced each year including four expanded reports. The CQ Researcher web site
offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete
Online
For 30 years, libraries worldwide have looked to the
Dictionary of Literary Biography for biographical and critical essays on the
lives, works and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from
all eras and genres. Now 16,000+ articles from this award-winning reference are
accessible online, digitized to match the look and feel of the print originals,
including thousands of images. You get:
·
The
Dictionary of Literary Biography (vols. 1-346)
·
The
Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (50 vols.)
·
The
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (23 vols.)
That's
more than 420 volumes and 164,000 pages, easily searched and retrieved.
Ebrary Academic Complete Electronic Book Database
Academic Complete is a highly interactive electronic
book database from ebrary that covers all academic
subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 book titles
from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, scientific, technical,
medical, and professional publishers. Coverage includes business, marketing,
and economics; computers and information technology; education; engineering and
technology; health, biomedical, and clinical sciences; the humanities; life and
physical sciences; and, the social and behavioral sciences.
Hawaii Digital Library
The purpose of Ulukau, the
Hawaiian Electronic Library, and its younger sister site, the Hawai'i Digital
Library, is to make these resources available for the use, teaching, and
enhancement of the Hawaiian language and for a broader and deeper understanding
of Hawai'i.
Hawai'i Pacific Journal Index
An index to magazines and journals published in or
about Hawai'i and the Pacific.
Humanities E-Book
Project by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project has over 2,200
books (January 2009) of high quality in the humanities. These are works of
major importance—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced
students, and are frequently cited in the literature. Readers can search the fulltext of all the books or browse by author, title, or
subject.
International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of the Social &
Behavioral Sciences is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and
behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever
published for the social and behavioral sciences.
Internet Archive
The
Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an
Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in
digital format. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive now includes texts,
audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our
collections.
Language &
Literature Collection (through JSTOR)
The 58 titles in
the JSTOR Language & Literature Collection span the literary cultures of
many different countries, containing articles in several languages, including
Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language
Association, the collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the
diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty
years.
LexisNexis Academic
Research areas in LexisNexis™
Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign
language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company
financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts;
accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S.
Code; and state legal research.
LILO (Learning Information Literacy Online)
LILO is an interactive, dynamic tutorial introducing
students to the critical thinking skills and information and retrieval skills
needed to conduct research and write at the college level. Six modules guide
you through the research and writing process:
- The Research Process - understanding what it is and how it works
- Your Assignment - know how to read your assignment to ensure you
produce what your instructor expects
- Research Strategy - select a topic and refine it to a thesis
statement or research question
- Conduct the Search - choose appropriate databases, construct
searches, and retrieve results
- Evaluate - review results and appropriateness for your research
topic
- Synthesis - writing ethics, avoiding plagiarism, integrating search
results and your own ideas, properly citing sources
Literary Criticism at the Internet
Public Library
MasterFILE
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 2,005 general reference,
business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. For
some titles, full text archives are available back to 1975. The database also
contains full text for over 300 reference books; 88,000 biographies; 86,000
primary source documents; and 107,000 photos, maps, and flags.
NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides access to electronic books. There are several hundred
University of Hawai'i Press titles as well as several thousand public domain titles
available.
NewsBank
Access World News (Newspapers from the United States and all over the world)
The world’s most comprehensive collection of
full-text newspapers, Access World News provides full text coverage of 850
American newspapers as well as 1,100 international newspapers. Coverage varies
by title, with the earliest dating back to 1977. There are more than 150 million
current and archived articles users can search, browse, print, or email.
Newspaper Source
(through EBSCOHOST)
Newspaper Source contains full text for regional
U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns as well
as other sources. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for
national newspapers.
Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates
access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to
encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification
of all.
Oxford English
Dictionary (OED)
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted
authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It
is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half
a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through
2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and
cookery books.
Oxford Reference
Online Collections
The Oxford Reference Online Core and Premium
Collections bring together more than 120 language and subject dictionaries and
reference works containing well over 60,000 pages into a single
cross-searchable resource.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg
is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and
continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. There
are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. A
grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners,
Affiliates and Resources.
Voyager
online catalog for UH system libraries
Search for items in any library in the University of
Hawai‘i system. Catalog includes books, journals, electronic books, audiovisual
materials, manuscripts, government documents, microfilm and maps. Find items by
title, author, journal title, subject heading, call number, or keywords.
Voyager
online catalog for UH West O‘ahu and Leeward CC
libraries
Search for items located in the UH West O‘ahu and Leeward libraries only.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select is a multidisciplinary, 100%
full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying
indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art
Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological &
Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities
Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature &
Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full
Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage begins in 1994.
Once you are at the
WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
to OmniFile Full Text Select to search any or all of
these databases.
If you need help
performing research in the library catalog or any of the other databases
available through the UH West O‘ahu Library, send an
e-mail describing your question or problem to uhwolib@hawaii.edu.
Last
revised July 27, 2009.