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Environmental Studies Subject Guide
Biology Collection Development Policy
Botany Collection Development Policy
Geography Collection Development Policy
Natural Resources and Environmental Management Collection Development Policy
Ecology Subject Guide
Contents
Guide to ecology Internet resources - especially those about Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
- Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations
- Finding Journal Articles
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
- Endangered Species/Hawaii and the Pacific
- Invasive Species - See also Botany Subject Guide
- Native Species/Hawaii and the Pacific - See also Botany Subject Guide
- Natural Resources
- Restoration
- Citation Styles and Using Endnote
- Related UH Links
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Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations
Hawaii Voyager | Search Guide (pdf)
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 Articles for links to those tools.
Use this database to find electronic journals, e-books, and databases that are available through the Library. Most resources are only accessible to UHM faculty, students, and staff.
Web access to over 22,000 books across many subjects. Most titles are cataloged in Hawaii Voyager, but access through this link allows searching the contents of all of the e-books in our subscription. To view a book, first download the free Ebrary reader.
Includes citations for doctoral and master's work from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available in pdf format. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts.
Ten major museum, botanic, and research libraries are scanning their legacy taxonomic literature and making it available for free. Currently the Library contains almost 3,000 book and journal titles published between 1480 and 2006; browse by title, author, or publication year; select by subject or scientific names using tag clouds; identify by geographical location on a world map.
Finding Journal Articles
Many ecological problems and issues cross a number of subject boundaries. The journal article resources below focus on the science aspects of ecology. For additional resources on the social sciences aspects, take a look at the Environmental Studies Subject Guide
If you cannot determine which database is most appropriate for your topic, please contact a Science & Technology Reference Librarian for assistance.
AGRICOLA
via EbscoHost: 1970 - present | Search
Guide (pdf) | AGRICOLA
via NAL (free): 1970 - present
Citations, most with abstracts, for publications in agriculture and related areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) via
CSA: 1971 - present | Search
Guide (pdf)
Citations with abstracts for publications in science, technology and management of marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
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 ecology particularly well.
Geobase
via Ovid: 1980 - present
Citations for journal articles, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports, many with abstracts, in geography, geology, and ecology.
JSTOR
Biological Sciences Collection
JSTOR provides full-text journal backfiles. The Biological Sciences Collection offers great depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, ecology, paleontology, and plant science. The General Science Collection is also useful for ecological topics.
Meteorological
& Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) via
CSA: 1974 - present
Records cover the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences; includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs.
Oceanic
Abstracts via CSA: 1981 - present
Citations and abstracts covering worldwide technical literature on the marine and brackish-water environments.
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.
Zoological
Record: 1978 - present
Citations with abstracts for publications covering all aspects of zoology.
Biodiversity and Conservation
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Endangered Species/Hawaii and the Pacific
Invasive Species
Native Species/Hawaii and the Pacific
Additional resources on Hawaii and Pacific island native plants are included on the Botany Subject Guide
Natural Resources
Restoration
Citation Styles and Using Endnote
Citing Your Sources in CSE Style (pdf)
A guide to formatting references in the Council of Scientific Editors (CSE) style. To print, select double-sided printing, short-edged binding.
CSE was formerly named the Council of Biology Editors (CBE). The manual is located in the Science & Technology Wing reference section at T11 .S386 2006.
Note: CSE advises including a lot of information in addition to the standard bibliographic elements for Internet based resources, even those with a print format, such as articles found in JSTOR.
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
Links to a selection of Web-accessible style guides.
Endnote: A Bibliographic Management Tool
Endnote bibliographic management software is available as to UH faculty, students, and staff as ITS site licensed software, see Endnote Site License for the form to fill out.
To import citations into an Endnote library from a UHM licensed database, use the Direct Export feature, if available. Otherwise, use the database specific Endnote filter to import your saved search results into your library. Connection files do not work with UHM licensed databases.
Introduction to Endnote (pdf)
A quick start guide to Endnote. To print, select double-sided printing, short-edged binding, to create a 3-fold pamphlet.
Related UH Links
Last updated on 29 July 2009 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)