Hawai‘i-Pacific 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

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Academic Search Premier (through EBSCOHOST)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.

‘Ahahui Mālama I Ka Lōkahi: Hawaiians for the Conservation of Native Ecosystems

A non-profit group with the following mission: “to develop, promote, and practice a native Hawaiian conservation ethic, relevant to our times, that is responsible to both Hawaiian culture and science. This ethic is protective of native cultural and natural heritage and is expressed through research, education, and active stewardship.”

Alu Like

http://www.alulike.org/

AnthroSource

AnthroSource is the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. It includes current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

Bishop Museum Research and Collections

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/research.html

Center on the Family: Data Center – UH Manoa

The Data Center contains a comprehensive collection of data and information on Hawai‘i's families, children, and aging population.

Charity Database from the Honolulu Advertiser

Hawai'i charities: How they spend your donations

Over 650 nonprofits that reported their revenues, expenses, assets and, in some cases, executive salaries are included in this searchable database. The information was compiled from the organizations latest tax returns as compiled by GuideStar for The Advertiser. Some charities may not list anyone under the highest-paid employees because they are only required to name those who make more than $50,000 and who are not officers, directors or trustees. The Advertiser also calculated the percentage of the nonprofits expenses that go toward programs to carry out their mission.

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.

Data Book (Hawai'i)

The official summary of statistics on the social, economic, and political organization of the State of Hawaii.

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.

You will need to install the ebrary reader to use the collection. It is at the ebrary website.

Hawaii Biodiversity & Mapping Program

Hawaii Biological Survey (HBS)

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/hbs1.html

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.

Hawai'i Sheet Music Index

Database of Hawaiian songs found in materials at the Bishop Museum, Hawaii State Library, and UH System Libraries. Enter a song title and find books and sheet music containing lyrics and melodies.

Hawaii State Archives catalog

The Hawaii State Archives collects, appraises, preserves, and provides access to records of enduring value of the State and its predecessor governments of the Territory, Republic, Provisional government, and the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Archives holds records of all three branches, but primarily of the Executive and Legislative branches. The Archives also contains manuscript collections of individuals and organizations, historical photographs, maps, and library collections specializing in Hawaiian history, culture, and Pacific voyages.

Hawaii State Department of Health

http://www.hawaii.gov/health/statistics/vital-statistics/index.html

Hawai'i State Government Agencies

Emphasis on the executive departments. Has links to laws, administrative rules, and regulations as well as to county government sites.

Hawai'i State Government Home Page

Hawai'i State Legislature

Who's in the legislature? Who's on which committee? Text and status of bills.

Hawai'i Statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) Program

Hawai‘I Tourism Authority

http://www.hawaiitourismauthority.org/

Hawaiian Historical Society

The Hawaiian Historical Society library provides a research collection of printed and manuscript material for use by scholars, historians, history buffs, serious students, Society members, and others in the community interested in the history of Hawai‘i and the Pacific Island area. The library's strength is on the history of Hawai‘i and the Pacific in the nineteenth century. It has fine collections of early voyages and travels, Hawaiian-language imprints, and newspapers published in Hawai‘i.

Hoʻolaupaʻi: Hawaiian Nūpepa Collection

Part of Ulukau, the Hawaiian Digital Library. Here is a collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948. The newspaper images can be retrieved by word search, title, or date.

Kamehameha Schools Archives

http://kapalama.ksbe.edu/archives/

Kau Inoa

http://www.oha.org/kauinoa/

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

LILO suggestions for local topics research: http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo/0907/local_topics.php

MEDLINE (through EBSCOHOST)

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

National Academies Press

The National Academy Press (NAP) publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. Browse by subject area or search the full-text in any of over 2,500 NAP books.

National Archeological Database

National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S. NADB-Reports can be searched by state, county, worktype, cultural affiliation, keyword, material, year of publication, title, and author.

Native Hawaiian Databook

This publication provides statistical data on Native Hawaiian communities throughout the state, offering a numerical representation of the social and economic status of the Native Hawaiian population.

The Nature Conservancy in Asia Pacific

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/

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.

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.

Pacific Collection Internet Resources

Resources on the Pacific island nations collected by the Pacific Collection at UH Manoa.

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)

http://prel.org/

Polynesian Voyaging Society

http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/

Population & Environment Linkages Service

Abstracts and links to books, reports, journal articles, newspaper articles, news analysis, maps, conference papers, datasets, slide shows, organizations, regional overviews, laws, bills, and court decisions, and much more from around the world . . . from the simple to the technical . . . and person-to-person communication.

Population Index

Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.

PsycINFO (through EBSCOHOST)

PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.

Rand Abstracts and Subject Indexes

Despite the title of this entry, many titles are full-text. Search by keyword or browse by topic. Topics include: Child Policy; Civil and Criminal Justice; Education; Environment and Energy; Health; International Policy; Labor Markets; Methodology; National Security; Population and Regional Studies; Science and Technology; Social Welfare; Transportation.

ScienceDirect

Since its commercial launch in 1999, ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals into one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature.

Secretariat of the Pacific Community

http://www.spc.int/corp/

SocINDEX™ with Full Text (through EBSCOHOST)

SocINDEX™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 750 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 575 "priority" coverage journals as well as from more than 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included. SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

State Historic Preservation Division of Dept. of Land & Natural Resources

http://www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/hpd/hpgreeting.htm

Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives

This index to documents on microfilm, photographs and other material from the records of the former Trust Territory Government (Micronesia) is most successfully accessed with a keyword search. In this database the term author refers to the agency that held the original files. Microfilm reels are at UH Manoa.

U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Native Hawaiian Information

DOI documents relating to federal recognition issue.

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 September 22, 2009.