Kapiʻolani Community College Library: Databases A-Z

PolicyMap is a U.S. national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools. University faculty, researchers, and students use it to create compelling maps of up to five layers, export trend-charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools, generate on-the-fly reports and upload your own data to view it with ours. You can create maps covering Demographics, Incomes & Spending, Housing, Lending, Quality of Life, Economy, Education, and Health. With a better understanding of your community, you can solve real-world problems faced by real people in real places. On a map, you can see what life is like in a neighborhood. Learn how best to help your community with data at the neighborhood or zip code level.

Professional Development Collection is a highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. Written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other notable experts, the Encyclopaedia Britannica articles are trusted resources with balanced, global perspectives and unique insights that users will not find anywhere else. Includes articles, images, videos, and primary sources.

Issues & Controversies is an authoritative source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated current issues. Each topic combines factual analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view, plus related chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies, contact information, and links.

You must be a Kapiʻolani CC student, faculty, or staff member to access the New York Times. Follow the link to The New York Times library guide to learn how to create an account. Access to news and the NYT TimesMachine (1851-2002) allow you to read current and archived news. Signing up also grants access to New York Times Audio. Check out our guide for information on how to create an account. 

Includes the Honolulu Star-Advertiser from June 7, 2010 to present; the Honolulu Advertiser from January 1, 1999 to June 6, 2010; and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from March 18, 1996 to June 6, 2010.

ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of information in science (including social sciences, arts and humanities), technology, and medicine. It includes over 6 million articles and over 60 million abstracts in over 1,800 scholarly journals. The University of Hawaii System Libraries have purchased full text access to hundreds of journals in ScienceDirect: look for green Subscribed content icons.

Popular streaming video content used for specific courses during the semester, but open to all of Kapiʻolani CC. Plug-ins may be necessary to download to view videos. When first connecting, choose Instructor or Student (based on what you are). Instructors can request titles through the dashboard and the library will receive requests.