Tutorials

Databases and Other Tutorials

Access to online databases.

BioOne - biology, ecology, environmental sciences
Books in Print
How to read Call Numbers
Criminal Justice Periodicals - ProQuest
Ebrary Academic Complete - 30,000+ academic ebooks in full-text
EBSCO Research Databases - 30+ databases on both general topics and specific disciplines such as business, education, health, psychology, religion, science etc.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Facts on File (news, current events)
FORENSICnetBASE/ LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE - forensic science, law enforcement and criminal justice ebooks in full-text
Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
Hawaii Sheet Music Index
LexisNexis Academic - financial, legal, general information
Library of Congress Classificatio n - LC classification and subject headings
Literature Resource Center
LWW Total Access - Ovid (biomedical journals)
Mergent - business
New York Times Historical - full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue
Novelist - book reviews and descriptions
Novelist K-8 - book reviews and descriptions for elementary and middle school
Oxford English Dictionary
Searchasaurus - dinosaur themed interface for elementary and middle school

For Hawaii database tutorials, see the Hawaii research tools page.

View these video tutorials to learn how to access and use library resources. Note: we are updating these tutorials to reflect the new website.

Library catalog (2:38)- Find books and more...	Flash* (4 mb), Win (5 mb), Mac (7 mb)
Databases (2:40) - Find journal articles and more...	Flash* (5 mb), Win (5 mb), Mac (7.6 mb)
Remote access (1:13) - Off campus access	Flash* (2.6 mb), Win (3.3 mb), Mac (5 mb)
Education resources (ERIC, Ebrary, Web Portal, Boolean, more...)	PPT (4 mb), PDF (4 mb) (updated 9/5/07)
Education resources (separate modules) ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - PPT (2 mb), PDF (1 mb) Ebrary (ebooks) - PPT, PDF Web Portal (off-campus access) - PPT, PDF Boolean (search tips) - PPT, PDF Education Websites - PPT, PDF
EBSCOhost Tutorials (try Intro to EBSCOhost, Advanced and Basic Searching)

*Requires Flash player