Research : Subject Guides
Anthropology 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.
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.
Art Full Text
(through Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select)
Art Full Text
covers Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural
History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion
Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape
Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western
Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
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WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
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the other OmniFile databases.
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 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.
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 over 1,700 books (November 2007) of high quality. (See title
list.) 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.
Humanities Full
Text (through Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select)
Humanities Full
Text covers Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications,
Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics,
Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy,
Religion and Theolog.
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WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
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the other OmniFile databases.
HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world
history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic
lifelines, timelines, and maps. Somewhat confusing at first glance, in the end
it will be worth every minute you spend learning how the site's synchronoptic concept works.
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—Wayback
Machine
The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback
Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to
surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive.
The Wayback Machine was unveiled on October 24th,
2001 at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
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.
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.
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.
Military and
Government Collection (formerly Military Library FullTEXT)
(through EBSCOHOST)
Provides full text for nearly
400 military related periodicals.
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.
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.
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.
Political Database of the Americas
The Political Database of the Americas is a non-governmental
Internet-based project that provides reference materials, primary documents,
comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western
Hemisphere. It has been organized under the following themes: Constitutions and
Constitutional Studies; Electoral Systems and Election Data; Decentralization;
Political Parties; Executive Institutions; Legislative Institutions; Judicial
Institutions; and Civil Society. The Political Database of the Americas is a
joint World Wide Web-based project of the Center for Latin American Studies at
Georgetown University and the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy at the
Organization of American States.
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 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.
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
Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB)
The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) is the
one-stop resource for comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist
incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders. TKB
covers the history, affiliations, locations, and tactics of terrorist groups
operating across the world, with over 35 years of terrorism incident data and
hundreds of group and leader profiles and trials. TKB also features interactive
maps, statistical summaries, and analytical tools that can create custom graphs
and tables.
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.
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WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
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these databases.