Research : Subject Guides
Education Resources Online (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Academic Search
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest
scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for
academic institutions. 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.
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.
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.
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 official summary of statistics on the social,
economic, and political organization of the State of Hawaii.
Ebrary
Academic Complete Electronic Book Database
Ebrary is a highly interactive electronic book
database 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.
Education Full Text brings you comprehensive
coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs
and yearbooks. Education Abstracts Full Text contains abstracting and indexing
coverage for over 475 periodicals included in Education Index as well as the
full text of over 150 periodicals.
Once you are at the WilsonWeb database search page,
click in the box next to Education Full Text to search this database.
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.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center
contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related
journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
FedStats is the new window on the full range of
official statistical information available to the public from the Federal
Government. Use the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to
track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation
safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more.
Federal Department of Education
Funk
& Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (through EBSCOHOST)
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.
Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Hawaii Department of Education
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.
An index to magazines and journals published in or
about Hawai'i and the Pacific.
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.
Humanities E-Book
Project by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) Project has 2,200
books (December 2008) of high quality in the field of history. (See title list.)
These are works of major importance to historical studies—books that remain
vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the
literature. Readers can search the full-text of all the books or browse by
author, title, or subject. Over the next few years, the History E-Book Project
plans to add approximately 250 books annually to the collection.
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.
Library, Information
Science & Technology Abstracts (through EBSCOHOST)
Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research
reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship,
classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far
as the mid-1960s.
Middle Search Plus
(through EBSCOHOST)
Middle Search Plus provides full text for 140
popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text
articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator
(Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search
Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an
Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated
daily on EBSCOhost.
Native Hawaiian Data Book from OHA
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.
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.
Pacific
Collection Internet Resources
Resources on the Pacific island nations collected by
the Pacific Collection at UH Manoa. Includes: Associations, Organizations, and
Societies; Cultural Resources; Governments; Information Resources; Journals and
Newsletters; Libraries, Archives, and Publishers; News Sources; Other Sources;
Regional Issues; Statistics.
Primary Search
(through EBSCOHOST)
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70
popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles
included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and
full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily
on EBSCOhost.
Professional
(Educators) Development Collection (through EBSCOHOST)
The Professional Development Collection provides a
highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for
professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from
children’s health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and
practice. The Professional Development Collection includes searchable full text
for 550 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.
PsycINFO contains more than two million citations
and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and
technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which
spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more
than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added
each year. There are links to 550 full-text journals. It also includes
information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as
medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Examples of titles offered in
PsycINFO include: Academic Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, Behavior Genetics,
Behavioral Disorders, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Applied
Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Psychiatry &
Neuroscience, Journal of Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological
Assessment, Psychological Medicine, etc.
SocINDEX™ with Full Text (through EBSCOHOST)
SocINDEX™ with Full Text is the world's most
comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. SocINDEX with
Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all
sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic
reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at
the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford
University.
On USA.gov, you can search millions of web pages
from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia, and U.S.
territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites.
USA.gov has the most comprehensive search of government publications and
government sponsored research anywhere on the Internet.
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.