Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

Volume 28, no. 2 of  The Contemporary Pacific   is now available in open-access format at:   https://scholarspace.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10125/2828   The Contemporary Pacific,   which is co-published by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the University of Hawai'i Press,   is the world's foremost journal of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to Oceania. Back issues, from Volume 1. number 1 (1989) through one year prior to the present are freely available via Scholarspace, the UH-M Library's digital repository. Current issues are available to UH-M students, faculty and staff via   Project Muse  (which houses issues from the year 2000 through the present).

The Hawaiian Collection is pleased to announce that the full run of the  Honolulu Weekly  is now available online at: https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/55438 The  Honolulu Weekly  was published between 1991-2013. For many in Honolulu during these years, especially prior to the advent of the Internet, the  Weekly  was a welcome alternative to the Honolulu dailies, offering a fresh take on Honolulu's music and culture scene, and focusing on astutely selected issues of the day. The paper’s weekly publication cycle and long-format cover stories often allowed writers to explore topics at a depth the daily newspapers were unable to, while also encouraging writers to go beyond simple reporting and into a more nuanced analysis. While the paper’s embrace of “advocacy journalism” often lead to accusations of bias, it’s editorial staff made no pretense at hiding that bias, and also made a point o...

The 2011 and 2012 issues of the  Hawaiian Journal of History were recently uploaded to eVols , the UH-M library's digital repository of material that is produced outside of the University of Hawaii. (The library also hosts a second repository, Scholarspace , specifically for material produced by the UH community.) All volumes of the Hawaiian Journal of History, from vol. 1 (1967) through vol. 46 (2012) are freely available for download (and also full-text searchable) at  http://evols.library.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10524/9  .

Hamilton Library's Desktop Networking Services department recently completed an upload of more than 900 issues of Ka Leo o Hawaii , the UH-Manoa campus newspaper. The issues, which cover the years 1922-1949, are freely available via Scholarspace , the library's open-access digital repository. The year's 1924 and 1925 have not yet been digitized; all other digital versions can be found at  http://scholarspace.manoa. hawa ii.edu/handle/10125/16400