Hawaii Voyager is the catalog for all of the University of Hawaii libraries. Search Hawaii Voyager for books, journals, videos, and more. Do not use it to find specific journal articles on a topic. Go to Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles for links to those tools.

Botany call numbers start with QK
Horticulture call numbers start with SB
Map of the call number locations in Hamilton Library (pdf)

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Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles

Academic Search Premier via EbscoHost: 1965 - present

Citations with abstracts for academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and books from science, social science, and humanities. About half of the records link directly to full text.

Biological Abstracts via Web of Knowledge (ISI): 1969 - present | Search Guide (pdf)

Citations with abstracts for journal articles covering all aspects of the life sciences dealing with animals (including humans), plants and microorganisms. This is a particularly good database for articles on tropical ecology.

BioOne Journal Collection: 2000 - present | BioOne Index via CSA

Collection of full-text bioscience research journals published by scientific societies and non-commercial publishers; focuses on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The CSA BioOne Index is easily searchable and links to the article full text.

CAB Abstracts via EbscoHost: 1973 - present | Search Guide (pdf)

Citations with abstracts to international literature in the agricultural sciences, including tropical agriculture, and related areas of applied biology. This database covers tropical crops and ecology particularly well.

Google Scholar via UHM

Allows you to search in Google and retrieve only scholarly literature. Using this Library link will allow you to access the full-text via the Fulltext @ My Library link.

Hawaii Newspaper Index: 1989 - present

Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1989 to present. The Index is a service of the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS). The Hawaii Newspaper Index can be searched by subject or by keyword(s).

JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection

JSTOR provides full-text journal backfiles. The Biological Sciences Collection offers great depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science. The General Science Collection is also useful for botanical topics.

Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded): 1980 - present | Web of Science Search Guide (pdf) | Cited Reference Search Guide (pdf)

Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences. Allows searching to find papers that have cited a particular paper as well as searching by topic or author.

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