Botany Subject Guide
Contents
Guide to botanical Internet resources - especially those about Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
- Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations
- Finding Journal Articles
- Endangered Species - See Ecology Subject Guide
- Ethnobotany
- Invasive Plants - See Ecology Subject Guide
- Native Plants/Hawaii and the Pacific
- Taxonomy - Finding Species Names
- 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.
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 nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) via
CSA: 1971 - present
Citations with abstracts for publications in science, technology and management of marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Includes articles on plants found in these environments.
Biological
Abstracts via Web of Knowledge (ISI): 1969 -
present
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.
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.
The web interface for Kew Record, the Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database, and the Economic Botany Bibliographic Database. Coverage of the Kew Record and Plant Micromorphology is comprehensive; for Economic Botany, only selected articles before 2003 are included. Freely available; registration required for some services.
Science
Direct: 1995 - present:
Provides searchable full-text access to hundreds of Elsevier Science journals in science, mathematics, medicine, and technology as well as social sciences and humanities.
Web
of Science (Science Citation Index
Expanded): 1980 - present:
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.
Ethnobotany
"Canoe Plants" of Ancient Hawaii
This site contains descriptions, propagation methods, and information on traditional and medicinal uses of 24 plants introduced to Hawaii by early Polynesian voyagers. Photographs and/or line drawings are included for most of the plants.
The purpose of this Web journal from Southern Illinois University is to facilitate publication; this is not a peer-reviewed publication. Each issue contains 10 to 15 short articles on various ethnobotanical subjects. Each article includes a bibliography of print and/or Web sources.
Ethnobotany Research and Applications
This is an electronic, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Botany Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It publishes on all aspects of ethnobotanical research.
Hawaiian Ethnobotany Online Database
This is one of several online databases from the Bishop Museum. It currently contains 145 records which can be accessed either by Hawaiian or botanical name.
Native Plants Used as Medicine In Hawaii
Full text of Beatrice Krauss' 1979 publication. Published on the Web by Kapi'olani Community College Library with permission from Lyon Arboretum. The original line drawings have been replaced by photographs.
Traditional Tree Initiative: Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry
Species profiles for a wide range of native and traditional trees grown in Pacific island gardens. Profiles are in pdf format and include information on botany, traditional uses, and cultivation.
Native Plants/Hawaii and the Pacific
Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands
This web site is a product of a biotic survey project designed to document the diversity, distribution and ecology of agarics and boletes (i.e., mushrooms) from the Hawaiian Archipelago. It includes keys and photos. Co-authored by Dennis E. Desjarin (SFSU), Don E. Hemmes (UH Hilo), and George J. Wong (UH Manoa).
Cook Islands Biodiversity Website
Web site provides searchable access to the Cook Islands Biodiversity Database. The database includes information on 4,200 native and introduced species. It includes terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. Site also includes access to natural heritage articles, Maori dictionary, and a searchable journal article database. Hosted by the Bishop Museum.
Dr. Donald Gardner, retired from the UH Manoa Botany Department, provides links to a number of his articles and reports on diseases of some of Hawaii's native plants including koa, 'a'ali'i, mamane, 'ohelo, and several more. Most of the reports include color images of disease symptoms and/or organisms.
From the the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Hawaiian vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. It also contains a pdf file of the supplement to the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii which details taxonomic changes since the publication of the Manual. There is also a link to the Flora of the Marquesas
From the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Marquesan vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. There is also a link to the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaii Biological Survey - Botany Databases
This Bishop Museum site includes taxonomy and type specimen databases in botany covering native plants, algae and cultivated plants.
By Dr. Gerald Carr of the UH Manoa Botany Department, this is an extensive collection of color images of hundreds of native plant species; arranged by botanical name.
Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Database
Searchable and browseable Web site for propagation information on over 70 endemic and indigenous plants.
From the College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Guam. Alphabetic lists of scientific and Chamorro names of native and introduced plants provide access to basic botanical information and data on distribution on Guam.
Part of the Hawaii Ecosystems at Risk Web site. Currently there are almost 51,200 images of close to 2,100 species of both native and introduced plants; accessible by botanical name and by common name; links to other image and information sites for each plant. Separate page provides access by family. Photos licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
Seeds of Native Hawaiian Plants
Two native seed publications are available on this page, Seed Germination Ecology of Hawaiian Native Plants and Seed Storage Practices for Native Hawaiian Plants. Each publication consists of a pdf file and an Excel file. From the Hawaii Conservation Alliance.
Taxonomy - Finding Species Names
Taxonomic information on terrestrial, marine, and freshwater algae. Currently, the information for marine algae, especially seaweeds, is the most complete. Also includes seagrasses.
From the the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Hawaiian vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. It also contains a pdf file of the supplement to the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii which details taxonomic changes since the publication of the Manual.
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) Taxonomy
A searchable database of taxonomic information based on the accessions of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System. The collection emphasizes economic plants.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
A joint project with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbaria. IPNI is an online database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns, and fern allies.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Taxonomic information on animals, plants, fungi, and microbes created in collaboration with several international agencies. A partner of Species2000 and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
From the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), The NCBI taxonomy database contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence. This database is searchable by both common and scientific names and provides lineages for many taxa as well as links to gene and protein data and other external Internet resources. The "Taxonomy Resources" link in the left hand column provides an extensive list of other Internet taxonomy guides and databases.
From the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, this database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files. Search is only by botanical name. Data includes current information on the name, its place of publication, type, and other information about the plant.
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.
Related UH Links
Botany Department, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Hawaii Conservation Alliance, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Last updated on 9 April 2008 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)