Research : Subject Guides
Health Care 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. 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.
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.
Business Source
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
Business Source Premier provides full text for over
8,350 business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting,
international business and much more. This database is updated on a daily
basis.
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.
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. 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.
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. Access official statistics collected and
published by more than 70 Federal agencies without having to know in advance
which agency produces them.
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.
An index to magazines and journals published in or
about Hawai'i and the Pacific.
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.
Who's in the legislature? Who's on which committee? Text and status of bills.
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.
Legal Collection
(through EBSCOHOST)
This database contains full text for more than 250
of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is
an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts
and trends of the legal world.
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 of Congress THOMAS Web Site
Information on the United
States House and Senate, bills, and votes. The first
database made available was Bill Text, followed shortly by Congressional Record
Text, Bill Summary & Status, the Congressional Record Index, and the
Constitution (now found, along with other historical Congressional documents,
under the "Historical Documents" category on the THOMAS home page).
Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search
and display capabilities, have been continuously added.
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.
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple
retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current
Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus,
DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings,
and HSRProj.
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.
Newspaper Source Plus (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.
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.
PsycArticles
(through EBSCOHOST)
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive
source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in
psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals -
46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied
organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and
errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
Psychology and
Behavioral Sciences Collection (through EBSCOHOST)
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
is a comprehensive database with more than 575 full text titles covering topics
such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology,
mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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.
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.
New areas of research not traditionally part of its agenda include The Arts and
Latin American policy research
Regional Business News
(through EBSCOHOST)
This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News
incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from
all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is
updated on a daily basis.
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.
Social Sciences
Full Text (through Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select)
Social Sciences
Full Text covers Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community
Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics,
Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography,
Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning &
Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry,
Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies.
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.
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.