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This guide is intended to help you start your research - it is not a complete list of all materials available.

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Best American Science Writing
General Collection: Q 158.5 .B47

College Student's Research Companion
General Collection: Z 710 .Q37 1997

Doing Science: Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research
General Collection: Q 180.A1 V35 2001

A Field Guide For Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers
General Collection: T 11 .F52 1997

Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering
General Collection: Q 223 .P64 2010

Making Sense: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing: Engineering and the Technical Sciences
General Collection: T 11 . N675 2009

Science and Technology Research: Writing Strategies for Students
General Collection: Z 710 .N47 2002

Writing and Presenting Scientific Papers
General Collection: T 11 .M3344 2004

Zotero and Mendeley are two freely-available bibliographic management programs.

Mookini Library also subscribes to two online bibliographic management services that allow UHH faculty and students to store and organize citations and can automatically create a draft bibliography* from the citations.  RefWorks and EndNote Web do take some getting used to, but are valuable tools. Both have good tutorials and help pages or you can Book-a-Librarian for an introduction.

* You are still responsible for verifying the correctness of the automatically-created bibliography, but that's still easier than typing the citations yourself!

Most databases will let you use these tricks:

Truncation is used to find variations of a word ending:

Hawai* {note only one i} will find Hawaii, Hawai‘i, Hawaii's, Hawai‘i's, Hawaiian, Hawaiians, Hawaiiana

navigat* will find navigate, navigating, navigation, navigators

Wildcards allow you to find variations within a word:

wom?n will find woman and women

organi?ation will find organization and organisation

Phrase searching will keep two or more words together:

"quantum theory"  "multiple personality"  "marine biology"

WARNING: different databases use different symbols!  You must check the Help area of each database to know what to use.  For example, Voyager uses a ? for truncation and % for wildcard, while EBSCOhost uses a * for truncation and ? for wildcard.