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.

Electronic Resources

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.

Ebrary Online Books

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.

Dissertations and Theses

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.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Ten major museum, entomological, 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.

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Finding Journal Articles

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 pest and the economic impact of pests.

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.

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

Citations with abstracts to international literature in the agricultural sciences, including pests.

JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection

JSTOR provides full-text journal backfiles. The Biological Sciences Collection offers great depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, and entomology.

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

A premier index of medical and biological journal literature that is linked to our full-text journal subscriptions. Use this database to search for literature on insects as vectors of disease.

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, including entomology.

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General Entomology

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Insect Pests

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Native Insects/Hawaii and the Pacific

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Taxonomy - Finding Species Names

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Insect Image Collections

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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 guide to Endnote X1. To print, select double-sided printing, short-edged binding, to create a 3-fold pamphlet.

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Entomology Subject Guide

Contents

Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations

Finding Journal Articles

General Entomology

Insect Pests

Native Insects/Hawaii and the Pacific

Taxonomy - Finding Species Names

Insect Image Collections

Citation Styles and Using Endnote

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