Research : Subject Guides
Political Science Resources Online (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Academic Search
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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.
Business Source
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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.
Census Information on
Hawai'i from DBEDT
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.
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.
EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners,
researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant
state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims
to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the
vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web.
Economic Census of the United States
Prepared and published monthly for the Joint
Economic Committee, by the Council of Economic Advisors
Education Full Text brings you comprehensive
coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs
and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from
hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research.
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.
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.
Environment Complete
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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.
The Federal Register is the official daily
publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and
organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.
An index to Federal Reserve Bank
economic research. Has links to the full-text.
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.
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.
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.
Hawai'i State Government Home Page
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.
Index to Legal
Periodicals & Books Full Text (through Wilson OmniFile
Full Text Select)
Index to Legal
Periodicals & Books Full Text covers Administrative Law, Antitrust
Legislation, Banking, Constitutional Law, Domestic Relations, Environmental
Protection, Estate Planning, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law, International Law,
Labor Law, Landlord/Tenant Decisions, Malpractice Suits, Minorities,
Multinational Corporations, Negligence, Non-Profit Corporations, Occupational
Health & Safety, Politics, Probate, Products Liability, Public Law, Real
Property, Securities, Tax Law, Trade Regulation.
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WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
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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
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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.
Military and
Government Collection (through EBSCOHOST)
Provides full text for nearly
400 military related periodicals.
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.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Search the NCJRS full-text and abstract databases as
well as all kinds of statistical reports on crime, criminals, and the courts.
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse
information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
to OmniFile Full Text Select to search this or any of
the other OmniFile databases.
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.
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.
Full-text coverage of The Wall Street Journal, the
world's leading financial newspaper, is now available on the web through ProQuest. Coverage dates back to 1984 and is updated daily.
Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can easily access not only top
news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and
popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters
to the editor from well-known people are indexed. For each article cited in the
database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the
complete text will meet his or her needs.
World Data Analyst from
the Encyclopæaedia Britannica
World Data and Compare countries from Encyclopædia Britannica are powerful yet
easy-to-use tools that lets users analyze the data among countries and
regions at a glance. They offer detailed comparisons of countries across the
world, using both the most recent statistics and historic figures. Subscribers
can create tables and charts and export the information to a spreadsheet for
printing and data crunching.
World Factbook (Comprehensive Country Profiles by the CIA)
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.