Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and journals) are a great source for current information. They are published on a regular, recurring basis, allowing information to be reported quickly.
Most articles in these collections are written by professional journalists and/or subject experts, for publications that strive to protect their reputations for credibility.
Online research databases let you find articles from many thousands of publications. Some databases cover a wide range of topics, while others focus on specific fields like science, health, and education.
The Primo search tool finds articles from most of these databases. Or you can search these databases individually with more search options. See Which Way to Search box below for why to do it one way or the other.
An index of The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, & Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Good for articles from 1989-1998. For 1999 and later, use ProQuest USW Newsstream. HNI is not a full-text database. Not searched by the Primo system.An index of periodicals published in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. HPJI is not a full-text database. Not searched by the Primo system.Extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with analysis and related resources. Not searched by the Primo system.The Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin is a printed index of articles from 1929–1994, located with our microfilm collection. The Periodicals List shows available microfilm.
These collections allow you to read through issues of magazines on a tablet or computer.
Individual magazines from the library's OverDrive e-book service. Includes more than 4500 publications. Note that these magazines are not listed in the library catalog, and articles from these magazines are not searched by the Primo system.
We no longer receive new content from Flipster, but we still have access to issues that were published while our subscription was in effect. Select the magazine you want to view, then click the "All issues" link in the top right to see the available issues. Not searched by the Primo system.
There are free databases that have limited or no full-text content, but when accessed through EBSCOhost, are able to retrieve articles from our other databases.
Similarly, accessing Google Scholar through this link gives you access to subscriber-only content from our databases.
See the full list of our databases and e-resources: A-Z Databases
Search Scope Options:
Newspaper Articles: In Primo, newspaper articles are searched separately from other articles. In the Primo search screen, choose Newspapers at the top of the search screen, or choose Newspaper Search from the bottom of a results list.
The Primo system does not cover Issues & Controversies or OverDrive Magazines.
We subscribe to some periodicals in paper and online form, in addition to those in our databases and the OverDrive package. See the list of individual periodicals.
Our older periodicals on microfilm are not available during the renovation project.
The Primo multi-database search system allows to you search in one place to find articles from most of our different research databases. The articles from the different databases are combined into a single results list. More about Primo.
If you go to the individual databases, you might have search options that you don't have in Primo. For example, in an EBSCOhost database, you can choose to see only magazine articles, instead of long complicated journal articles. You can also choose to see only articles that are shorter or longer than a certain number of pages, or you can choose to see only cover stories (thus likely to be major, in-depth stories).
You may find different articles featured in search results, due to differences in the ranking algorithms used by Primo and the individual databases.
Scholarly journals (also called academic journals) are used by researchers to report on their work. Some scholarly journals use the peer review process, in which independent subject experts carefully review submitted articles to determine which articles get published. Articles are usually quite long and detailed, are written at an expert level, and have a list of sources (i.e., references or works cited) at the end.
Finding articles: The Primo search tool, EBSCOhost databases, and ProQuest's ABI/INFORM have filters that let you search for articles published in scholarly or peer-reviewed journals. All journals in ScienceDirect:are peer-reviewed. For more information and instructions, see the Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Journals & Articles guide.
Full-Text means the text of the complete article, and not just a description of the article and its publication details. A full-text research database can provide the actual articles for most or all of the articles it can identify when you search it. The article is shown either in the form of text on a web page or as a PDF file that resembles the original printed article.
A periodical index database allows you to find information about periodical articles, but it does not include the actual articles. You'd have to find a library that subscribes to the periodical in print or online. Index databases are often produced by government agencies or educational institutions as a public service. Examples include the Hawaiʻi Pacific Journal Index and the Hawaiʻi Newspaper Index.
As explained in Enhanced Free Databases on this page, some index databases on certain platforms can retrieve full-text from other sources. Also see the More About Periodical page for tips on finding article full-text.
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