Guide to Internet resources on tropical agriculture - especially those that relate to Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
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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 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.
CTAHR Theses and Dissertations
Searchable database containing over 1,500 citations for CTAHR graduate theses and dissertations starting with the first one in 1914 and continuing through 2001.
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.
AGRIS: 1975 - present
International database covering agricultural sciences and technology containing citations for conventional and non-conventional ("grey") literature.
American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Technical
Library: 1999 -
present
Searchable database of full text of all ASAE technical documents including journals, conference proceedings, standards, technical meetings, and books.
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, plants and microorganisms.
CAB
Direct (CAB Abstracts):
1973 - present
Citations with abstracts to international literature in the agricultural sciences, including tropical agriculture, and related areas of applied biology. This database covers tropical crops particularly well.
CTAHR Journal Series: 1934 - 2001
Database containing thousands of citations to journal or peer reviewed articles published by CTAHR faculty.
Food
Science and Technology Abstracts: 1969 -
present
FSTA contains over 500,000 references covering all areas of food science, food technology, and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging, and engineering. Note: When you get to the FSTA home page, click on the button that reads "Search FSTA Direct" in the right column.
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.