Finding Journal Articles - TPSS 610 - Mineral Nutrition of Tropical Crops (Spring 2016) - Research Guides at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Recommended Journal Article Databases

CABI Digital Library (CAB Abstracts)
1910 - present: Citations with abstracts to international literature in the agricultural sciences, including tropical agriculture and ecology. This database covers journals, monographs, conference proceedings, theses, technical reports, patents, and other sources, most with English-language abstracts. UHM Library CAB Direct LibGuide
Biological Abstracts
via Web of Science 1969 - present: Citations with abstracts for journal articles covering all aspects of the life sciences dealing with animals (including humans), plants and microorganisms. UHM Library Biological Abstracts LibGuide
Web of Science
via Web of Science 1980 - present: Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences. Allows citation searching as well as searching by topic or author. UHM Library Web of LibGuide

PubAg
(National Agricultural Library, USDA) PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. At launch, it delivered over 40,000 full-text journal articles by USDA staff and includes nearly 450,000 citations. Open access; no login required.
Acta Horticulturae
1963 - present: Acta Horticulturae is a series of scientific technical publications consisting mostly of the proceedings of ISHS Symposia and International Horticultural Congresses. Because they are books, the "Find It" button in the databases will not connect you to individual articles; use this link to access this full text resource.

Google Scholar
Full-text @ UH Manoa links should automatically display. If the links are not displaying you can manually set the links to UH Manoa subscriptions by clicking the menu icon in the upper left corner of the Google Scholar search page. Go to Settings. Click on Library links and search for Hawaii. Select University of Hawaii at Manoa - Full Text @ UH Manoa and save your preferences.

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.
AGRICOLA
via EbscoHost 1970 - present: Citations, most with abstracts, for publications in agriculture and related areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.

ScholarSpace
(UH Manoa Library) This UH Manoa digital repository provides full-text searchable access to the full-text of many UH Manoa publications and other research materials. Includes many publications of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Open access; no login required.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides full-text journal backfiles of selected journals in many disciplines including general science, biological sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology, economics, and mathematics.

Going from Database Record to the Full-Text Article

Most of the Library's subscription databases enable you to connect directly from a citation record to the full-text article online, if available.

Click on the Find it link in the database record to search UHM electronic collections for the full-text article.

If we do not have access to the article in an online format (No Full Text available), search Hawaii Voyager to see if we have it available in print.

If we do not have the article in print or electronic format, select Request document via Interlibrary Loan to access the Interlibrary Loan online request form. Interlibrary Loan is a free service provided to you by the Library -- the article will be sent to you within a few days as a PDF file.

Making Your Search Work

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TPSS 610 - Mineral Nutrition of Tropical Crops (Spring 2016): Finding Journal Articles

Recommended Journal Article Databases

Going from Database Record to the Full-Text Article

Making Your Search Work

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