All Electronic Resources

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

Browse by Subject

Use these subject guides to determine which tools to use to start your library research and find information about specific print and electronic resources.

Catalogs

Search for materials in libraries, archives and museums worldwide.

Databases

Use online databases to find citations (and sometimes full text) to articles and other materials.

Dictionaries

Includes dictionaries, language dictionaries/translators, thesauri, and gazetteers (place name indexes)

Digital Collections

UHM Libraries 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 Books

UH has many electronic versions of printed books, many from University of Hawaii Press. Some ebooks require you to set up a personal account in order to view them.

Electronic Journals and Books

Search for online journals. Use online databases to find journal articles on a particular topic (see Online Databases and Browse by Subject)

Encyclopedias

Need background information on a topic? Try an encyclopedia.

Free Books Online

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

Free Database Trials

Periodically UH Manoa libraries participate in free database trials. These trials are offered to our libraries by various vendors in order for students, staff, and faculty to evaluate resources and determine whether they would be a valuable addition to our online collections.

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.

Maps

Includes maps and atlases.

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 quick online access to fact-based reference sources of general interest to UHM Library 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?

UH Catalog (Hawaii Voyager)

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

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.