Research : Subject Guides
Sociology Resources Online (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global,
ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text
journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial
Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers
a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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.
The Anthropological Index Online is based on the
journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at The British Museum (Museum of
Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from
academic institutions and publishers around the world.
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.
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.
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. 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 more than 2,200 digests
along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts
from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
library
Search for items located in the UH West O‘ahu library.