Research Guides: NREM Graduate Research Skills: Books & Dissertations

Some Useful Call Numbers

How to Read Call Numbers (PDF file)

Books in UH Libraries are shelved by Library of Congress call numbers.

Agriculture call numbers start with S

Biology (including ecology) call numbers start with QH

Botany call numbers start with QK

Environmental resource economics start with HD

Forestry call numbers start with SD

Horticulture call numbers start with SB

Hydraulic and ocean engineering call numbers start with TC

Physical Geography call numbers start with GB

Zoology call numbers start with QL

A map of the call number locations is available on the Library Web site or as a PDF file.

OneSearch to Find Books and Journal Articles

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Hawaii
Dissertations and Theses at University of Hawaii provides access to complete full text of University of Hawaii theses and dissertations from 1996 to present. Use Dissertations & Theses for citations, abstracts, and full text of work from other institutions.
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Dissertations and Theses in ScholarSpace
An increasing number of UH Manoa dissertations and theses are available through our open access institutional repository, ScholarSpace. Open access; no login required.

Dissertations & Theses
Includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and selected master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download. Print copies of additional dissertations and theses not yet digitized are available for purchase. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts.
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Ebook Central
Access thousands of e-books business & economics; engineering & applied sciences, sciences, and social & behavioral sciences. Ebook Central is the new home for e-books from EBL and ebrary.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Search and view the full text of eBooks purchased by the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, as well as those included in the eBook Public Library Collection.

WorldCat (via OCLC FirstSearch)
Search thousands of libraries around the world In one location. If the book you find is not available at a UH library, you can use the Request Via ILL link to borrow the book from another Library.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Major museum, botanic, and research libraries are scanning their legacy taxonomic literature and making it available for without charge. Open access; no login required.
Google Books
Use Google Books to find information about your topic in books the UH Manoa Library may have on the shelves. Google Books provides a way to find information that might otherwise be hidden. Open access; no login required.
Search in Hawaii Voyager for the titles of books that you find in Google Books to see if they are available at the UH Manoa Library shelves.
Western Waters Digital Library
Provides free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States including Hawaii. Available resources include classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and other material. Open access; no login required