Two new databases

The Library was recently given a little extra money from the Legislature to support electronic resources purchasing, and two new database subscriptions started with this money are now available via the Electronic Resources Gateway.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
CLC-Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.

Three medical journals go electronic

You can expect a lot of new electronic resources to appear in the UHM Library Electronic Resources Gateway over the next month or so. Today we added the electronic versions of three medical journals from Mary Ann Liebert that the Library previously subscribed to in print form. Converting our subscription type means we now have online access to articles back to 1999 from these journals:

• AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
• DNA and Cell Biology
• Hybridoma

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.