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, 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.

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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 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. Includes articles on plants found in these 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 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.

Kew Bibliographic Databases

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.

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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Ethnobotany

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Invasive Plants

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Native Plants/Hawaii and the Pacific

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Taxonomy - Finding Species Names

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

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Botany Subject Guide

Contents

Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations

Finding Journal Articles

Ethnobotany

Invasive Plants

Native Plants/Hawaii and the Pacific

Taxonomy - Finding Species Names

Plant Image Collections

Citation Styles and Using Endnote

Related UH Links