Read the Basic Library Research Handbook BEFORE doing Library research
This guide provides links to selected resources for this course.
These are just places to start.
If you don't find what you are looking for, try the Horticulture Subject Guide, the Agriculture Subject Guide, or contact me.
You can call me, email me, or stop by during my office hours.
= Resource only
available to
authorized UH Manoa users.
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 and Reports for links to those tools.
Horticulture call numbers start with SB
Agriculture call numbers start with S
Botany call numbers start with QK
Map of the call number locations in Hamilton Library (pdf)
Acta
Horticulturae: 1963 -
present
Acta Horticulturae is a series of scientific technical publications consisting mostly of the proceedings of ISHS Symposia and International Horticultural Congresses. Because they are books, the "Find It" button in the databases will not connect you to individual articles; use this link to access this full text resource.
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.
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 @ My Library link.
ScholarSpace - CTAHR Collection
Full text searchable collection of pdf files of CTAHR publications. Includes both current and historical documents.
Turfgrass
Information Center File (TGIF): 1968
- present
Citations with abstracts covering all types of works related to turfgrass culture including articles from peer reviewed publications, technical reports and conference proceedings, trade and professional publications, local professional newsletters, and popular magazines as well as monographs, theses and dissertations, fact sheets and brochures, software, and web documents.
Web site from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
PDF file of the Manual is downloadable from this page
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Step by step guidelines from UC Berkeley Library
Last updated on 11 August 2009 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)