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Susan Johnson
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Business, Humanities & Social Sciences
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Useful resources
Hawaii Voyager Quickstart Guide [pdf]
See also:
Communication Subject Guide
Library & Information Science Subject Guide
Management Information Sciences Subject Guide
Related departments
Information & Computer Sciences Department
Communication & Information Sciences Subject Guide
Contents
Resource is available to authorized UH Manoa users on or off campus
Find Articles & Journals
Note: Use a database or index to locate articles. The "find it" icon indicates that the database is OpenURL enabled; and will link you to full text content if available, a UHM catalog search, or to interlibrary loan. Otherwise, to find a specific journal title in electronic format, search the library's list of electronic journals. Use Hawaii Voyager to find paper (and some electronic) formats for specific journal titles.
If you do not find the journal you are looking for, please ask for further assistance at a reference desk.
ABI/INFORM Global is the premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Indexes about 1,520 journals and includes article full-text for more than 780, many with graphics (full-text available to UH Manoa campus users only). Includes information on 60,000+ companies.
This multisubject database provides full-text from 3,288 scholarly journals covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, language & linguistics,and arts & literature. The database is updated daily.
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947 are available in the library together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
This EBSCO database provides full-text from 2,804 scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, etc. The database is updated daily.
Communication AbstractsHamilton Main Reference P87 .C59733
Bimonthly journal provides coverage of recent literature in all areas of communication studies(mass, interpersonal and new communication technologies).
Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 240 full text periodicals covering valuable market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet. Through EBSCOhost.
fulltext (except for past 12 months)access to 4,800 journals covering multiple subjects. This link takes you to the complete suite of databases available.
Covers the major management disciplines including, marketing, HR and organizational development, library & information management, quality and operations management. Coverage also includes accounting, education, science & technology, healthcare, and communications. Contains the full text of journal articles published from 1994 to date, in both HTML and PDF format. Abstracts are also provided for articles back to 1989. Offers email alerting service.
ERIC
indexing over one million journal articles and documents on all educational levels and subjects, ERIC goes back to 1966. Access through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts or EBSCOhost.
1988-present: free access to citations and abstracts for IEEE journals, conferences and standards; full-text access to IEEE journals and conferences articles from 1998 to present, including Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) proceedings; license does not include full-text access to IEEE standards.
1968 - present: citations with abstracts for journal articles and conference proceedings covering the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering, and information technology.
Library & Information Science Abstracts
International abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Link to fulltext of many articles using "find it" button.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Link to fulltext of many articles using "find it" button.
Provides citations and abstracts of international journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it covers over 1,400 journals, representing professional and scientific literature from over 50 countries going back to 1887. Link to fulltext of many articles using "find it" button.
Psychology& Behavioral Sciences
Nearly 480 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Search over 30 million abstracts from scholarly journals and access full text of most from 1997 to present. Offers email alerting service.
Indexes and abstracts the literature of sociology from 2,700 journals and other serials, books, dissertations, and conference papers published worldwide. Coverage is from 1963 and includes all facets of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. Link to fulltext of many articles using "find it" button.
Index with citations/abstracts only 1980-present:
Multidisciplinary citation searching index covering the journal literature of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Covers approximately 7,500 journals selected by ISI using citation counts.
Dissertations
Includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and masters work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts, and from 1997 on full-text is available for over 100,000 titles deposited with UMI.
University of Hawaii Theses & Dissertations
Theses & dissertations published earlier than 1997 can be found also using the Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog. UH theses are ususally available in both print and microfiche.
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Searchable,browseable archive from Virginia Tech.
Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations
Search and browse for ETDs in the NDLTD Union Catalog which contains entries from multiple members institutions (hosted by VTLS).
Find Books
Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Safari Computer Science Books - Online
Safari Computer Books covers a wide range of topics (programming, web design, etc.) with books from Addison Wesley, O'Rielly, Prentice Hall, Peachpit Press, and Que.
Worldcat
Use this database of many library catalogs to find books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Place interlibrary loan requests directly from the Worldcat database.
Map of Call Number locations within Hamilton Library
Find Grants
Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Database
Index (with citations/abstracts only): Information on funding opportunities announced by federal agencies, state/provincial organizations, commercial entities, non-profit foundations, professional associations, etc. with an international scope. The largest and most comprehensive research-funding database on the Web. Updated daily, includes more than 23,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities and grants worth over $33 billion.
FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database
Index (with citations/abstracts only)
CD-ROM: Ask at the Business-Humanities-Social Sciences Reference Desk.
FC Search provides access to information about all known active foundations in the US, numerous corporate giving programs and recent grants of $10,000 or more.
Index (with citations/abstracts only)
CD-ROM: Ask at Business-Humanities-Social Sciences Reference Desk.
This database has descriptions of 100,000 grants of $10,000 or more awarded by the nation's largest independent, corporate and community foundations.
Selected Internet Resources
A(o)IR- Association of Internet Researchers
Addresses the "cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders."
Scientific literature digital library - Over 7 million pages. Over 5 million citations - Brought to you by NEC'ers Lee & Giles.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Over two million references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 1400 bibliographies, and consists of 660 MBytes of BibTeX entries. More than 18,000 references contain crossreferences to citing or cited publications. More than 130,000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. There are more than 2000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information.
From John December, this is a nifty collection of internet resources for Computer-Mediated Communication..
From the Berkely Digital Library, an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology .
dblp Computer Science Bibliography
Michael Ley's offering indexes over 200,000 articles and contains several thousand links to home pages of computer scientists
EEVL Internet Guide to Computing
Provides a central access point to computing resources, including e-journals, databases, training materials, professional societies, university and college departments, research projects, bibliographic databases, software, information services and recruitment agencies.
Weekly newsletter by Peter Suber focusing on how the internet is transforming scholarly research and publication.
Gary Perlman's labor of love providing free access to a substantial collection of Human-Computer Interaction resources.
Includes communication tools, bibliographies, & current news in HCI research.
Scholarly internet resources with a free email alert service.
Sponsored by the Association of Information Systems,this is good resource for new PhD candidates. Check out the Qualitative Research on Information Systems section, part of MISQ Discovery, for a good read.
An annotated daily weblog of resources and news for information professionals and researchers by Gary Price and team. Indispensible for information professionals.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
- Now on version 64 - October, 2006.
Search journal and web content for scientific information.