New electronic handbooks

The Library has picked up three new digital reference books in the communications field. The following are now available via the Electronic Resources Gateway:

• Handbook of Intercultural Communication
• Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change
• Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication

Nursing@Ovid Trial

The UH Manoa Library has a free trial to the Nursing@Ovid database. You can access the trial here: http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53570. The trial runs through Dec. 18, 2008. Nursing@Ovid will allow you to search nursing titles available via Ovid as well as the CINAHL and PubMed databases simultaneously via the Ovid Universal Search feature.

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Nov. 15, starting at 3 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until noon of the same day.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Nov. 1, starting at 3 p.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 3 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, Hawaii time.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

Free trials

The Library recently added three free trials to our Electronic Resources Gateway.

Roper Center iPOLL database
The Roper Center is the largest archives of public opinion information. Access is provided to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. All of the major polling organizations in the US are included in this system.

Research Starters - Business
Research Starters - Education
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.

Electronic Resources logins by UH username only

In order to increase Web site security, if you are outside the Library, you will only be able to log in to use Electronic Resources via UH username and password beginning Jan. 12, 2009. This should actually also make it less confusing for most students as most UH services, such as e-mail, MyUH, and Laulima, only allow UH username access. However, if you do not already have a UH username, please go to https://myuh.hawaii.edu:8888/sessionid=nobody/am-sso-check-status to request one.

Encyclopedia of Language and Education

The Library now has electronic access to Encyclopedia of Language and Education. The 10 volume encyclopedia offers the newest developments including two new volumes of research and scholarly content essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.