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TPSS 200 - Tropical Crop Science

Read the Basic Library Research Handbook BEFORE doing Library research

Contents

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.


Finding Books in Voyager and the Library

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)

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Finding Journal Articles and Reports

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.

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Crop Information (Web sites)

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Statistics (Web sites)

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Writing Aids (Web Sites)

Avoiding Plagiarism

Web site from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

ASHS Style Manual

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

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Related UH Links

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Last updated on 11 August 2009 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)

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