Science 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.
Access World News
(Newspapers from the United States and all over the world)
The world’s most comprehensive collection of fulltext newspapers, Access World News provides full text
coverage of 850 American newspapers (including The Honolulu Advertiser
from January 1999 to the present) 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.
Alt-HealthWatch (through EBSCOHOST)
This database focuses on the many perspectives of
complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Alt-HealthWatch offers libraries an immediate
resource of full text articles from more than 140 international peer-reviewed
and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association &
consumer newsletters plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports,
original research and book excerpts.
Applied Science &
Technology Full Text (through Wilson OmniFile Full
Text Select)
Applied Science & Technology Full Text covers
Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence,
Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical
Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information
Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources
& Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food
& Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning,
Machinery, Marine Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineralogy,
Mining Engineering, Neural Networks, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Optical
& Neural Computing, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Robotics, Solid
State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics,
Transportation, Waste Management, Other Industrial & Mechanical Arts.
Once you are at the WilsonWeb
database search page, click in the box next to OmniFile
Full Text Select to search this or any of the other OmniFile
databases.
Biological &
Agricultural Index Full Text (through Wilson OmniFile
Full Text Select)
Biological & Agricultural Index Full Text covers
Agricultural Chemicals, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry,
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Botany, Cytology, Ecology, Entomology,
Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry, Genetics,
Horticulture, Immunology, Limnology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Nutrition,
Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary Medicine, Zoology.
Once you are at the WilsonWeb
database search page, click in the box next to OmniFile
Full Text Select to search this or any of the other OmniFile
databases.
CogPrints is for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience,
Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence,
robotics, vision, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind,
language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology,
behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behavior genetics, evolutionary theory),
Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, Human Genetics, Imaging), Anthropology
(e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology,
paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and
mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources at UH Mānoa
A collection of free publications from the CTAHR
department at UH Mānoa, on the following topics:
AgriBusiness, Animal Waste Management, Biotechnology,
Children and Family, Cost-of-Production Spreadsheets, CTAHR in the Classroom, Economic
Fact Sheets, Economic Issues, Engineer's Notebook, Entrepreneur's Toolbox, Financial
Connections, Food Safety and Technology, Foods and Nutrition, Fruits and Nuts, Hawaii's
Pollution Prevention Information, Home Garden, Home Garden Vegetable, Horticultural
Research Notes, Household and Structural Pests, Insect Pests, Landscape, Livestock
Management, Miscellaneous Pests, New Plants for Hawaii, Ornamentals and Flowers,
Pasture and Range Management, Pesticide Risk Reduction Education, Plant Disease,
Resource Management, Soil and Crop Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Turf
Management, Water Issues, Weed Control
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.
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.
You will need to install the ebrary
reader to use the collection. It is at the ebrary
website.
Since the Encyclopædia
Britannica's founding in 1768, Britannica editors have gathered and organized
information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval. More than 200 years
later, Encyclopædia Britannica is still the standard
by which other reference works are judged.
Environment Complete
(through EBSCOHOST)
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in
applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy
sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography,
pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law,
public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete
contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and
international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core
titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full
text for more than 600 journals.
General Science Full
Text (through Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select)
General Science Full Text covers Astronomy,
Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science,
Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology,
Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.
Once you are at the WilsonWeb
database search page, click in the box next to OmniFile
Full Text Select to search this or any of the other OmniFile
databases.
Hawaii Biodiversity & Mapping Program
HBMP
compiles and maintains detailed, comprehensive information on Hawai‘i's biological resources. The HBMP database is the
state's largest computerized inventory of endangered, threatened, and rare
plants, animals, and ecosystems, extracted from all available sources. It
includes detailed information on more than 1000 native species and ecosystem
types in nearly 16,000 locations across the state.
An index to magazines and journals published in or
about Hawai'i and the Pacific.
Health Source -
Consumer Edition (through EBSCOHOST)
With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search
for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food
sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health
Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 300 journals
including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and
indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care
publications.
Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition (through EBSCOHOST)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides
more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical
disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals.
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire
Press began in early 1995 with the online production of the weekly Journal of
Biological Chemistry (JBC), the most highly cited (and second largest)
peer-reviewed journal. Scientists and societies rapidly saw the potential for
new forms and features of scientific communication, and Science and Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences soon joined JBC online.
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.
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:
1.
The Research Process - understanding what it is and
how it works
2.
Your Assignment - know how to read your assignment
to ensure you produce what your instructor expects
3.
Research Strategy - select a topic and refine it to
a thesis statement or research question
4.
Conduct the Search - choose appropriate databases,
construct searches, and retrieve results
5.
Evaluate - review results and appropriateness for
your research topic
6.
Synthesis - writing ethics, avoiding plagiarism,
integrating search results and your own ideas, properly citing sources
MedicLatina
(through EBSCOHOST)
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative
journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique
database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical
journals.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information
on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of
Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current
biomedical journals.
The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the
National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and
the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the
Congress of the United States. 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.
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.
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. See a comprehensive description of the collections
at: http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/2col/1/Key_Features__1A.html
Rand Abstracts and Subject Indexes
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.
Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the
American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's
leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with
the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal.
Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated
worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is
truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors
on its papers are based outside the United States. Its articles consistently
rank among world's most cited research.
Our online subscription covers from January 1997 to
the present -- abstracts/summaries, full-text HTML, and full-text PDF.
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. Our subscription covers the following ScienceDirect collections:
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Electronic Access to current Elsevier print holdings
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Electronic Access to current Academic Press print
holdings
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Subject Collections:
1.
Medicine
2.
Earth & Planetary Sciences
3.
Agricultural Sciences
4.
Social Sciences
5.
Economics
6.
Materials Science
7.
Environmental Science
ScienceDirect is not easy to use. Go to http://info.sciencedirect.com/using/
to see their help pages.
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 29, 2009.