UH Manoa Libraries adds resources

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contact:
Teri Skillman, (808) 956-8688
Events & Communications Coordinator
Posted: Feb 4, 2009

Honolulu -- Thanks to a concerted effort by University of Hawaiʻi President David McClain, Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw and the UH Manoa Library Administration at the 2008 Hawaii Legislature, the UHM Libraries received significant funding in the State's Supplementary Budget. The Library has used this money to secure access to the ScienceDirect Journals as well as to add the following resources:

ARTStor: A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53714.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections: These collections provide full-text journal back files in various disciplines, including Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=1354.

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53601.

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53646.

DAAI - Design and Applied Arts Index: Cover both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewelry, 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.http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53602.

Communication and Mass Media Complete: Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=46054.

Film & Television Literature Index: http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=51836.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Full Text: Comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

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