Research : Subject Guides
Philosophy 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.
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.
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.
Columbia International
Affairs Online (CIAO)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the
most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It
publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working
papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs,
foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books,
journals and policy briefs.
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.
EpistemeLinks:
Philosophy Resources on the Internet
EpistemeLinks includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet
and has several additional features. Online since early 1997, this site is free
to use, and doesn't require user registration of any kind.
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.
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.
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.
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 Theology.
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.
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 Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
are currently from three sources (1) original contributions by specialized
philosophers around the internet, (2) adaptations of material written by the
editors for classroom purposes, and (3) adaptations from public domain sources
(typically from two or more sources per article).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Religion and
Philosophy Collection (through EBSCOHOST)
The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a
comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major
denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political
philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy
and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals and
unparalleled coverage of the subject areas, the Religion & Philosophy
Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and
philosophical studies.
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.
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.
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.