Botany 105 - Introductory Ethnobotany | University of Hawaii at Manoa Library

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Botany call numbers start with QK

Agriculture call numbers start with S

Horticulture call numbers start with SB

Anthropology call numbers start with GN

Map of the call number locations in Hamilton Library (pdf)

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Finding Journal 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.

AnthroSource: 1888 - present

Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA); searchable full-text access to more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.

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.

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@MyLibrary link.

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.

PubMed (Medline): 1950 - present | Search Guide (pdf)

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine including research, clinical practice and health care services. Using this Library link allows you to access the Library's electronic subscriptions using the FindIt button.

Web of Science via Web of Knowledge (ISI): 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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