LLEA 371 Research Guide
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Recommended Starters
These are excellent starting points for your research - all are located in the Hawaiian Pacific Collection on the 5th floor of Hamilton Library.
Lal, Brij V. and Kate Fortune, eds. The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
Location/Call#:Hamilton Pacific DU17 .P3 2000. (Multiple copies in Hamilton Pacific and Hamilton.)
[See in particular section titled “European visitors: first contacts,” pp. 147-175.]
Dunmore, John. Who’s Who in Pacific Navigation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
Location/Call#:Hamilton Pacific Reference DU19 .O78 1991
(Also three circulating copies at Hamilton DU19 .O78 1991.)
Friis, Herman Ralph. The Pacific Basin: a History of Its Geographical Exploration. New York: American Geographical Society, 1967.
Location/Call#:Hamilton Pacific Reference DU23 .F7 (Also one circulating copy in Hamilton Pacific and two circulating copies at Hamilton DU23 .F7.)
Quanchi, Max and John Robson. Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Location/Call#: Hamilton Pacific Reference DU19 .Q36 2005 (Also one circulating copy in Hamilton Pacific.)
Hamilton Reference DU19 .Q36 2005
Lay, Graeme. In Search of Paradise. Auckland, N.Z.: Random House, 2008.
Location/Call#:Hamilton Pacific Reference N7410 .L39 2008 (Also one circulating copy in Hamilton Pacific)
Snow, Phillip. The People From the Horizon: An Illustrated History of the Europeans Among the South Sea Islanders. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1979.
Location/Call#:Hamilton Pacific DU28.3 .S56
Find Books
Searchable catalog of books, sound and visual recordings, and other materials held by libraries in the University of Hawaii system. Features online holds and renewals. Request items from Hawaiian Pacific collection using the Get this item link in Voyager. Download "how-to" guide here.
To browse for voyaging accounts, in Basic Search mode, use the following subject heading in “Subject Browse” mode:
Oceania -- discovery and exploration
[tip: Sort results by “oldest first” to see primary source materials. Sort by “newest first” to see commentaries about voyagers (as well as facsimiles and later reprints of original accounts).]
To browse accounts BY a specific voyager, in basic search mode, search name using “Author, (Last Name First)” mode, e.g.:
Cook, James
[tip: Sort by “oldest first” for early editions; sort by “newest first” for reprints, facsimiles and etc.]
To browse for information ABOUT a specific voyager, in basic search mode, search name (last name first), using “Subject Browse” mode, e.g.:
Magellan, Ferdinand
Geographical terms like Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, or individual island names
Subject terms like: Antiquities, Biography, Description and travel, Europeans, History, In literature, Social life and customs,
Find Articles and Journals
Index of 1,700 journals covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. To browse material on Pacific voyaging, search “Discovery and exploration” AND “Pacific” in subject search mode. Can also search for specific voyager names in subject mode (e.g. Cook, James).
Google Scholar is a simple tool to search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. For best results, use Google Scholar through the library pathway to access fulltext articles.
The HPJI indexes roughly 130 journals (both academic and “popular press” that cover Hawaii and the Pacific, dating from 19th century to the present.
Useful searches are Keyword Anywhere, Author Name and Journal Name; for the majority of searches it is best to use the database’s Advanced Search mode, rather than the less flexible Basic Search mode.
Keyword Anywhere searches: When using Keyword Anywhere searching in HPJI, it is important to remember that: a) Journal article titles can often be somewhat cryptic, and may or may not include a specific keyword; b) the Abstract/Summary in HPJI often consists of either an article’s sub-title or its first few sentences. It is thus essential to think as flexibly as possible about what words might appear in a particular story’s title, subtitle or lead sentences. For instance, if looking for information on kava consumption in the Pacific, one should not only search kava, but also consider using scientific names (piper methysticum, piper wichmannii) and other variant names used throughout the region (awa, ava, yaqona, seka, sakau, etc.) and so forth.
Author Name searches: HPJI author searches are often useful in helping to establish publication histories of specific authors, as well as for finding works by well-known scholars in specific academic fields. For instance, users interested in Pacific music and dance might use this function to search for works by Jane Moulin Freeman, Adrienne Kaeppler, Barbara Smith or a host of others.
Journal Name searches: In some instances it can be useful to researchers to view the entire indexing of a particular journal. This can be accomplished by searching the journal title using the Journal Name field search, which will yield every article that has been indexed in HPJI for a specific journal title.
Provides full-text journal articles in various disciplines, dating from 18th century to present (there are even a couple articles by Captain Cook in there!)
Selected Plagiarism Resources
LILO Plagiarism Defined
See especially the section on Common Knowledge.
The Owl at Purdue - Avoiding Plagiarism - This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.
Plagiarism Court (From Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library)
Go directly to the quiz portion of plagiarsm Court to test your knowledge.
Plagiarism Lesson (from Ted Frick of Indiana University)
Test your knowledge of plagiarism in this short quiz.
UH Manoa Student Conduct Code
See section H - Academic Dishonesty - in particular.
Citing Sources
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (online resource from the Online Writing Center at Purdue University)
Quickstart Guide for MLA Style (two page guide from Hamilton Library with examples)
Last modified: October 22, 2009