All Electronic Resources

Search for electronic databases, journals, books; links to indexes, abstracts, and full-text.

Browse by Subject

Use these subject guides to select tools for beginning your search for information.

Databases

Use online databases to find citations to articles and other materials; may include full-text of articles.
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Dictionaries

Includes subject dictionaries, language dictionaries/translators, thesauri, and gazetteers (place names).

Digital Collections

UH Manoa Library digital collections of photographs, images, and documents.

Directories

Contact information for individuals and institutions including e-mail, postal information, telephone listings, and resource lists of links to home pages.

Electronic Resources Gateway

Search for electronic databases, journals, and books offered through the Library's Electronic Resources Gateway. Many of the items are licensed for University use and are not available through the open web. Go through the Gateway to ensure free access.

Encyclopedias

Need background information on a topic? Try an encyclopedia.

English 100 Students

We suggest you start your research for your English 100 papers with the resources listed on this page.

Free Books Online

Search several online libraries and archives for free books in digital format.

Free Database Trials

Periodically, the UH Manoa Library participates in free database trials. These trials are offered by publishers to allow students, faculty, and staff to evaluate the resources and determine whether they would be valuable for our campus.

Google Life Photographs

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog

Lists the holdings of the UH System Libraries. Includes books, journal subscriptions, musical scores, DVDs, videos, etc.

Library Catalogs (Other Libraries)

Search for materials in libraries, archives, and museums worldwide.

Maps/GIS

Includes maps, atlases, and geographic information systems resources.

News Sources

Search for online newspapers. Use newspaper databases to find citations (and sometimes full-text access) to news articles written about a particular topic.

Quick Facts

Quick Facts provides access to fact-based reference tools of general interest to students and researchers.

ScholarSpace

Find scholarly information from the UH Manoa's Institutional Repository.

Search Engines

Tools for searching the Web.

Search Plugins

Add search plug-ins to IE 7 and Firefox 2 to access the Voyager OPAC and E-resources.

Software

Downloadable software and interactive applications.

Statistical & Numerical Data

Official counts, census data, other data sets.

Textbooks

Trouble finding textbooks for your course?

Web Archiving Project

A list of website archives for the Pacific Islands which has been put together by a team of UHM librarians.

Writing Aids (Citation & Style Manuals)

Print and electronic writing aids, official style manuals, how to format an Internet citation, etc.