Sustainability: Finding Resources

• How do I search EBSCOhost Research Databases?
  See the video below to learn tips on keywords, filtering, and tools to email and cite.
  
   
• How do I search ProQuest Honolulu Newspapers?
  See the video below to learn tip on keywords, filtering, and tools to email and cite.
  


• Is there a summary sheet?
  https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/research-challenge/find-articles

• How do I search ebooks from the Library?
  The Proquest Ebook Central video below provides tips on searching, navigating through the book, and citing. EEBSCO eBook Collection works the same way too. 




• You can also use Hawai'i Voyager to find books in the library as well as ebooks.
• Check out the cheatsheet for finding (e)books.

• How can I search smarter in Google? Try limiting your search by date or domain (site:.edu or site:.gov) to get a more targeted search. Watch this video below for more tips or use this cheatsheet.

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• Is the website you are using good enough for citing in your research paper? What criteria do you use to see if it is suitable?
  • What is Climate Change | Climate Change Industry
  • What is Sustainability | Walmart
  • Four Pillars of Sustainability | Preschoolers
  • Wikipedia | Ecological Services
• Evaluating websites:
  • Use C→R→A→P Flowchart or CRAAP Test to test these websites: A | B | C | D | E
  • Use this CRITEC worksheet

Click on individual links below, or search them all at once by using the search bar.

• Hawaiʻi 2050 Sustainability Task Force
• Hawaii Census Information: Population, education, income, commute, ethnicity.
• Hawaii Commision on Water Resource Management: Hawaii water plans.
• Hawaii Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance: Crime rates.
• Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture
• Hawaii Dept. of Business, Economic Development & Tourism: Social, political and economic data, includes the State of Hawaii Data Book.
• Hawaii Dept. of Education ARCH: Educational assessment and accountability.
• Hawaii Dept. of Education publicly available reports
• Hawaii Dept. of Health: Health survey, births, marriages, alcohol/drug abuse.
• Hawai'i Dept. of Human Services Reports: Child abuse, homeless shelter counts and reports.
• Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources: FAQs contains many useful factsheets
• Hawaii Office of Hawaiian Affairs: Native Hawaiian Data Book
• Hawaii State Energy Office: Renewable energy, energy statistics, and reports.
• Hawaii Tourism Authority
• Research and reports on Hawaii's visitor industry.
• NASA Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• USA.Gov: Environment, Energy & Agriculture resources
• U.S. National Energy Information Center: Hawaii Energy Data
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Publications database
• U.S. EPA: Our Waters
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife: Endangered Species in the Pacific Islands

• Center on the Family: Covers homelessness, alcohol, drug treatment, family composition, community profiles, etc.
• College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources: Publications on agriculture, foods and nutrition, pests, pollution prevention, etc. 
• Hawaii Economic Research Organization: Economic, demographic, and business trends.
• Hawaii Educational Policy Center: Studies and analysis on education issues.
• Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology: Lyon Arboretum
• School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
• Water Resources Research Center
• eVols: Digitized material from the University of Hawaii.
• ScholarSpace: Publications by UH Manoa academic community.

• Hawai'i Conservation Alliance
• KanuHawaii
• Sustainable Coastlines Hawaiʻi
• SAGE: Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
• Slow Food USA
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Sustainable Communities Online
• Enviropaedia
• Smart Growth America: Reports and links to articles on housing, the economy, the environment, historic preservation, social equity, transportation, land conservation, health, etc.