Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.
Academic Video Online contains over 70,000 titles of the award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, and training videos. The subjects are included Business, Counselling, Film, Health, History, Music, etc. There are lots of useful resources to all types of patrons for educational use.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
Designed to help users develop their writing and professional research skills, APA Style CENTRAL combines sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced writing and content management technology, and full integration of APA’s best-selling Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association® to create an unparalleled web-based suite of integrated services and tools.
ACLS Humanities E-Book includes several thousands of full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. The project includes both in-print and out-of-print books and many prize-winning works. It is an ongoing collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS and over 100 publishers.
ACM Digital Library is a service offered by the Association for Computing Machinery. HKSYU is subscribing ACM Complete Collection, it includes journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters. The platform provides the full images of journals, magazines, transactions, and conference proceedings published by ACM since its founding in 1947.
Gale OneFile: Agriculture provides access to journals covering agriculture and its related fields. Researchers can access current and authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
AP Stylebook is a writing style guide for journalists. It is published and updated annually to reflect changes in writing style and new guidelines. It provides fundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style.
AP Stylebook Online is a searchable, customizable, regularly updated version of AP Stylebook which offers bonus features including Ask the Editor, Topical Guides and Pronunciation Guide, and expands on the print book’s guidance. It’s mobile optimized so you can use it on your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
AP Stylebook Online adds Webster's New World College Dictionary, the stylebook's first reference for spelling, style, usage and foreign geographic names.
APA PsycTESTS (PsycNet) is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.
APA PsycTHERAPY is a database of streaming psychotherapy demonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North America working with participants on a host of therapeutic topics.
Features:
Search/browse/playlist; video resources are viewed by Adobe Flash Player
This collection presents topically focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics such as Business and Economic History, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, etc. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
The database brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands.
Gale Associated Press Collections Online is a publishing program focusing on making varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide. Exploring the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press---decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
With more than 2,500 videos and almost 3,500 books, documents, and transcripts. Behavioral and Mental Health Online is a fundamental resource for studying and teaching in the areas of behavioral and mental health. This ever-growing multi-media resource includes clinical mental health demonstrations, video of real clinical mental health sessions, largest amount of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content, documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, reference works, clinical mental health textbooks and workbooks, psychological experiments and more. New content added quarterly.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
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Bloomberg Professional Service is a key financial source for current and historical information on equities, fixed income securities, foreign exchange, derivatives and commodities. Also included are company profiles and financial statements, analysts' forecasts, market news and global economic data. Excel Add-in is also available for data extraction.
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Britannica ImageQuest database provides deep coverage of the arts, humanities and sciences. These nearly three million images come from more than 45 international collections. Also, all images are copyright cleared for educational use and can be downloaded for use in course materials, students projects and other non-commercial uses
BrowZine is an app that consolidates scholarly journals from multiple publishers and platforms into an easily browsable format, optimized for iPads or Android tablets. Current and back issues of journals back to 2005 can be browsed by subjects and A - Z title list. Users can add favorite journals on "My Bookshelf" and save articles for future reading. Article links can also be shared via email and various social media platforms and exported to the citation tools such as RefWorks, Mendeley, EndNote, etc.
Support mobile app:
Users can access BrowZine via Android, iOS and Amazon mobile app
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Scholarly journals
Language:
English
Remarks:
Users are encouraged to download mobile app. If you use web browser, please use Firefox to open it.
Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.
Features:
4,000 leading business and trade publications
A selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications
Gale Business Insights is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.
The Humanities and Social Sciences package includes areas such as economics, business and management, language and linguistics, politics and international relations, literature, social studies, etc.
Among Humanities and Social Sciences titles, more than 70% of them are cited by SSCI and AHCI. Behavioral and Brain Sciences is placed top of the entire Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of more than 2,600 journals and Politics & Gender, American Political Science Review, International Organization and Behavioral and Brain Sciences are all ranked top 5 in their categories. 2013 Nobel Prize winner Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller published articles on Cambridge economics journals.
GALE Interactive: Chemistry is an online database experience utilizing 3D images and animations to explore elements, molecules & compounds, crystals, reactions and advanced reactions in chemistry.
China from Empire to Republic is a multi-module digitization and publishing program that documents China’s transformation from an imperial dynasty into a modern republic. Consisting of monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence and letters, photos, and other kinds of historical documents, these collections provide excellent primary source material for the understanding and research of the various aspects of China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Three modules are included:
Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals (1817-1949);
Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949)
The China-Global South Project (CGSP), formerly known as The China Africa Project, is a non-profit independent multimedia organization dedicated to exploring every aspect of China's engagement with Africa. The project has a full-time team of editors and analysts in five countries in African and Asia working every day to produce daily news and analysis. The site produces a mix of editorial content that combines original material with carefully curated third-party information.
Six English language learning programs are selected from Clarity English program list:
Clear Pronunciation 1:
Clear Pronunciation 1 (Sounds) helps learners recognize and pronounce 43 English phonemes: vowels, consonants and diphthongs. The program includes over 1,000 audio clips and 50 videos which provide both comprehensive input for the sounds, and models for learners to copy. The Recorder enables users to record their voice and assess their pronunciation against a native speaker.
Clear Pronunciation 2:
In Clear Pronunciation 2 (Speech), students learn to put the sounds of English together in natural speech. This program helps them recognise and accurately produce word stress, sentence stress, consonant clusters, connected speech and intonation. By the end of the program, learners have a comprehensive understanding of the key features of English pronunciation.
Practical Writing:
Practical Writing helps students not just with the essays and reports they have to write in their academic work, but also with the job application personal profiles and letters they will need to write in their final year. For more information.
Road to IELTS Academic module:
Road to IELTS is online preparation and practice resource for IELTS. With over 120 hours of interactive activities, advice videos from British Council experts, hints and tips on question types as well as downloadable practice tests, it is comprehensive, up-to-date and aimed precisely at the challenges candidates face. Road to IELTS is suitable for IELTS candidates from band score 4.5 upwards, and for institutions running IELTS preparation courses.
Study Skills Success:
Study Skills Success is for students in their final years at school and first year in higher education. It provides comprehensive coverage of skills and resources that will enable them to approach their academic studies effectively and with confidence.
Tense Buster:
Tense Buster, Clarity's most popular program, helps learners improve their understanding of key grammar areas from some/any at Elementary level to phrasal verbs at Advanced level. The program is ideal as a self-access resource for extension or remedial work, or integrated into a course of study and used for classwork or homework.
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media brings together information found in more than 400 journals. Nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, meet the needs of researchers.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors offers students and patrons continuous access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors.
Each entry contains comprehensive and up-to-date information, accessible through an easy-to-use interface with a variety of search paths to help you locate the information needed quickly and efficiently.
Features:
Include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays.
Entries on the most active authors are continuously updated with author-provided updates, expanded entries, bibliographies, awards, and other recent information.
Easy to search for an author by name, nationality, date and place of birth, honours and awards, title, subject, and genre of work.
Functions:
Topic Finder
Term Frequency
Person Search
Works Search
Sources:
Modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters
The database is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
System Requirements:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, and Firefox 3.0 or higher.
Sources:
Diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs
Counseling and Therapy in Video : Volume IV: Current Practices is a multimedia collection that addresses the current best practices for counseling and therapy. It includes transcripts of real therapy sessions, video presentations by practicing therapists as well as presentations and publications by renowned academic therapists.
The collection directly discusses the CACREP 8 Core Areas required by many states for counselor certification as well as a wide range of contemporary issues from working with LGBT clients to helping clients suffering from PTSD.
System Requirements:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher ; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more. Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 250 journals.
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts offers a smorgasbord of information—more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography provides comprehensive access to the series dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible. The series provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Features:
More than 420 volumes and 164,000 pages of award-winning content that’s easy to search, retrieve and analyse.
Includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a service of OAPEN Foundation. It aims to increase discoverability of academic, peer reviewed books published under open access license. The directory covers various subjects including arts and architecture, business and economics, history and archaeology, languages and literatures, law and political science, philosophy and religion, social sciences and more.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including Agriculture and Food Sciences,Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, etc. and many languages.
Features:
All journal titles can be searched and browsed. Some journals are searchable at article level.
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection provides access to over 2,000 e-books in humanities and social sciences. Key subject areas include anthropology, art history and theory, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film and television, gender and sexuality studies, Latin American studies, political theory, and science studies. The collection includes term access to all available backlist titles published by Duke University Press as well as perpetual access to at least 100 new e-books each calendar year.
Features:
Print/download by chapters; search/browse; cite/share
An e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multi-displinary research. It supports full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations. The titles can also be searched in the Library Catalogue
Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS. ATLA Religion Database (ATLA RDB) with ATLASerials PLUS (ATLAS PLUS™) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's largest online collection of major religion and theology journals.
Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS provides coverage extending back into the 19th century with the 1881 as the earliest date of coverage.
ATLAS PLUS offers users access to a growing list of more than 450 full-text titles, including all of the full-text titles in ATLASerials (ATLAS), in many diverse areas of religion and theology, with full-text content in 16 languages from more than 30 different countries.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. It also includes the full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from the 1971 up to the 1991 volumes (published in 1997).
Business Source Ultimate works like a solid business plan - it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Communication Source provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 500 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). It provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Features:
email / print / save articles, full-text and abstract available, functions: marked articles, etc.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Publishing created a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples
Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 46,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 38,400 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Features:
email / print / save abstract available etc.
Sources:
Periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings
Historical Abstracts with Full Text offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. It contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This database offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, full text for about 170 history magazines, 112,000 historical documents, 119,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical videos.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
550 = Total number of Reference Books
56 = Total number of Magazine/Periodicals/Journals
176 = Total number of Biographical Collections (includes over 43,000 biographies of historical figures)
6 = Total number of Pamphlets
51 = Total number of Primary Source Document Collections (includes over 57,600 historical documents)
Humanities Source Ultimate offers access to key content covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes to round out student research.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Database provides full text of articles.
Features:
email / print / save abstract available etc.
Sources:
Periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings
This ebook reference collection offers over 200 eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This database provides full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. It also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps & flags.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
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Full text pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags etc.
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
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Newspaper, newswire and new magazine and Radio & TV News, etc.
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
Features:
email / print / save articles
Sources:
Selected citation of Doctoral Dissertations by American Universities and the world.
With 240 full-text journals that originate from 30 countries in 30 languages, The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text via EBSCOhost is the single, largest collection of full-text titles in philosophy. These 240 titles broadly cover the discipline of philosophy and include subject-specific journals, which includes:
Over 100 of the most esteemed journals in philosophy
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
This ebook reference collection offers over 100 eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of nearly 2,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes close to 1,500 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Features:
email / print / save articles, functions: marked articles, etc.
This database provides nearly 600 full text journals. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
Features:
email / print / save articles, full-text and abstract available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Sociology Source Ultimate provides over one thousand full-text journals for students studying aspects of social behavior and interaction. Coverage of topics ranges from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) - Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
Features:
email / print / save abstract available etc.
Sources:
Periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Powered by Gale OneFile, it includes more than 1,800 titles. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 (three to four years embargo). Full-colour images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue - all combine to offer a unique primary source covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete provides full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
This Emerald collection contains 39 journals with high quality, more than half of them are listed in SCOPUS. Contributors come from leading institutes like University of Chicago Booth (USA), The University of Cambridge (UK) and KPMG. A few journal titles include The Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, one of the top ten accounting journal ranked by Google Scholar and is indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI); International Journal of Manpower which is also listed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) with more than 30 years of history.
Features:
Search/browse/download/print
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Emerald Accounting, Finance and Economics eJournal Collection
Emerald Library Studies eJournal Collection is not only designed to meet the researchers' needs, but also for librarians, information scientists, educators and students. With 7 out of 17 journals enlisted in Thomson Reuters (ISI), this collection proudly presents abundant content and the latest research results. Selected articles within this collection are co-published with International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Journals include Journal of Documentation and Library Hi Tech, both ranked by Thomson Reuters (ISI).
This Emerald Marketing eJournal Collection is one of the largest peer-reviewed collections in the world featuring globally recognized authors and advancing into new areas with titles such as Journal of Social Marketing, Journal of Historical Research in Marketing and International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship.
With approximately one article downloaded every seven seconds, the collection includes established key titles indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) including the European Journal of Marketing, endorsed by the Academy of Marketing, the Journal of Services Marketing, International Marketing Review, and Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing.
EndNote is a bibliographical management software package designed to help you to organize bibliographic references and create a bibliography. EndNote allows you to search, retrieve relevant citations, and build your bibliography, all within one program.
Create EndNote account:
Please use your shue yan webmail to create the EndNote account via the web version.
Support devices:
Users can install EndNote via Windows, Mac & iOS mobile app.
Language:
English
Remarks:
Users working on-campus can access EndNote from all public PCs (Except 15mins Express Printing Stations) available in Library (2/F-6/F).
Mapped to four key business stages—plan, fund, start and manage, this resource covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. More than 850 business plans are included from the Business Plans Handbook series, with new business plans added monthly.
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. It provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development.
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
This platform provides thousands of academic videos for unlimited access. Users could add the videos onto LibGuides, distance educational courses and social media platforms. Moreover, the videos could be saved in the personal folder. It could make the users to feel more convenient to prepare the resources for their studies.
System Requirements:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
The Financial Times Historical Archive is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper since 1888 can be searched and browsed. This is an essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts places millions of articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database includes over 500 journals, with more than 400 available in full text. Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data from the Gallup World Poll.
Subscribers can search, examine, compare and export:
over 80 years of U.S. national data
almost a decade of U.S. data by city and state
over a decade of global data from more than 160 countries
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
Gale In Context:Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issues and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.
With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
Features:
24/7 access to peer-reviewed journals in medicine, health, nursing and allied health and other health-related areas with backfiles from 1980
Videos of medical procedures and live surgeries from OR-Live
International news coverage from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, NewsRx and Ascribe
More than 2,500 topical overviews from Clinical Reference Systems
History of Feminism is an online platform that brings together the best and most relevant scholarship from Taylor & Francis, its imprints, and its authors.
This resource covers the fascinating subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776-1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes:
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool, and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy is an innovative learning aid that allows students to examine virtual 3D dissections and immerse themselves in interactive research. These powerful tools can be used for in-classroom demonstrations and help with homework or research assignments.
The ICLR Online is the hub of legal authorities dating back to 1865, a dedicated case law platform presenting the cases that matter in a comprehensive and readable format. The platform combines the law reports with powerful Citator+ index cards to present all the relevant case information in one screen, making legal research easier than ever, and ICLR judgments are triple checked for accuracy and presented with absolute clarity.
HKSYU Library subscribes the following law reports & case reports online in the platform:
The Law Reports (1865 to present day)
The Weekly Law Reports (1953 to present day)
The Industrial Cases Reports (1972 to present day)
The Business Law Reports (2007 to present day)
The Public & Third Sector Law Reports (2009 to present day)
With its debut in 1842, the Illustrated London News became the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events (including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science) with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace.
Gale OneFile: Information Science is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability provides access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike.
This archive includes The New York Herald, European Editionfollowed by the New York Herald Tribune and finally the International Herald Tribune, retracing the history of the 20th century from luxury travel and opulent entertainment, to international conflicts, the spread of American culture abroad and globalization. This American newspaper published in Paris had an independent editorial spirit throughout and offers a strong focus on objective reporting of international news.
Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Our library subscribes Social Sciences editions.
Features:
Published annually (approximately June) following the year of coverage
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections.
Features:
print and email articles ; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics as diverse as 21st century skills, learning disorders, standardized testing, home schooling and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional educator interested in professional development.
Lexis HK is the new online legal research solution tailor-made for Hong Kong legal practitioners, corporate and government users. It is a one-stop legal research platform including the largest local content in the form of commentaries, cases, legislation and forms covering Hong Kong, as well as key overseas jurisdictions. Library subscribes basic module HK9 and Litigation module.
Features:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher ; Navigator 7.2 or above
Gale Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
Gale Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products.
Features:
Cross-references author names
Including pseudonyms and variant names
Listings for titles of works into one source.
Contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings
Functions:
Collaboration tools
Citation tools
On-demand translation
Basic Search
Advanced Search
Subject Guide Search
Publication Search
Sources:
130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers.
Gale Literature brings together all of Gale’s literary databases and Gale eBooks into one seamlessly cross-searchable research and study environment. Contains full-text literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, bibliographies, multimedia, and a rich collection of scholarly overviews.
New added 8 platforms include:
• Gale Literature Criticism
• Gale Literature Resource Center
• Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
• Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Gale Literature Criticism is the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. It provides access and navigation through centuries of literary analysis – spanning all time periods, genres and regions of the world.
Features:
Deliver scholarly and popular commentary in easy-to-use online format that matches the exact look and content of the print originals.
Easy to find hard-to-find essays with around-the-clock remote access
Functions:
Topic Finder
Term Frequency
Collaboration Tools
Sources:
Broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopaedias, books and periodicals
Gale Literature Resource Center offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a large collection of full-text critical and literary analysis.
The database provides researchers with evidence to support their literary responses and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and perspectives are represented.
Features:
Overview and full-text literary criticism on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
More than 160,000 complete entries from two award-winning series – Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography – providing in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors’ lives and works.
Content that supports interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills.
Cross-searchable with Gale literary products
Functions:
Person and Works search
Term clusters
Term frequency
Collaboration tools
Sources:
News, primary sources, literary works, images, links to audio, interviews, and reviews
Gale Literature: LitFinder provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary source materials covering literature and authors throughout history and across the globe. It includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and over 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, plays, biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
Features:
Includes 140,000+ full-text poems
Easy-to-use search paths
Various refine search and results limiter options for browsing database
Functions:
Topic Finder
Term Frequency
Basic and advanced search
Person Search
Works Search
Highlights and Notes
Sources:
Poems, poetry citations, short stories, speeches, plays, biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
McGraw-Hill eBook Library contains e-book titles available in subscribed business collection, including clusters of Business Skills, Career Advice, Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, Finance & Investing, Human Resources & Training, Leadership & Management, Process Management, Real Estate, Sales & Marketing. Users can create their own accounts, add notes, bookmarks and highlights and print parts of the book for their personal use.
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence provides military personnel with access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this library resource contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Gale National Geographic Virtual Library brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazine --- every page of every issue --- along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos. National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world. The monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and more.
HKSYU subscribes two parts of this National Geographic Virtual Library including:
National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current
Naxos Spoken Word Library have over 400 titles of audio books which includes classic novels, plays and poetry, from medieval times to the twentieth century. It also includes unabridged titles, from Shakespeare to James Joyce. The texts are also available to follows on screens, providing a comprehensive presentation of the literature and an excellent language-learning facility. These texts can also be printed out. All titles can be accessed online, no matter in the library, campus or at home.
PC user:
Microsoft Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 / Mozilla 1.7.1 / FireFox 1.5 / Netscape 7.1 and Media Player 10 / 11 Mac user:
OS X 10.4 with Mozilla 1.7.12 / FireFox 1.5 / Netscape 7.2 / Safari 2.0.2 and Media Player 9
This free resource searches the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) of research organizations around the world. Links to full text are provided if available.
Features:
Open Access/ Full Text/ Index/ Links & Downloads / Tags
Sources:
Dissertations and Theses
Language:
Multiple languages
The New York Times (For the first time user, please register here with your Shue Yan webmail)
Descriptions:
The New York Times (Register and login account with university email)
Historical articles: Unlimited access to articles in the date ranges 1851 - 1922 and 1981 - now.
Access to articles from 1923-1980 is limited to five articles per day for each user.
Videos, multimedia, blogs etc.
To activate your Academic Pass for access to The New York Times, please follow these steps:
Visit https://nytimesineducation.com/access-nyt/, enter Shue Yan University, create a free NYTimes.com account using your university email address. If you already have a NYTimes.com account associated with your university email address, log in with those credentials. Remember to login out when you leave the platform. You may download NYTimes mobile apps via Google Play.
Features:
Videos, multimedia, blogs
Sources:
News
Language:
English
The New York Times in Education (For the first time user, please register here with your Shue Yan webmail, the account is same as The New York Times)
Descriptions:
The New York Times in Education (Register and login account with university email)
Sixteen major areas: American Government, Arts & Visual Culture, Biology, Business, Campaigns and Elections, Criminal Justice, Environmental Science, International Relation, Leadership, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Population Health & Nursing, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology and Writing & English Composition
It covers Case Study, Article Discussion, Must Read Article and Sharing Teaching Strategy across the world.
To activate your Academic Pass for access to The New York Times in Education, please follow these steps:
Visit http://nytimesineducation.com/register/, create a free New York Times Education account using your university email address. If you already have an account associated with your university email address, log in with those credentials. Remember to login out when you leave the platform.
Gale OneFile:News provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health brings together information found in more than 1,000 journals, with a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL.
The over 6 million articles in Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health will meet the needs of researchers at all levels of nursing in all specialties, including vocational/licensed practical nurse (LPN), registered nurse (RN), occupational health nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist.
Details concerning nearly every kind of nursing application can be found, including:
OATD covers millions of open access electronic theses & dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,318,883 theses and dissertations.
Features:
Open Access/ Full Text / Metadata / Cite/ Download/ Share/ Embed/ Usage Metrics
Gale In Context:Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Oxford Academic: Hong Kong Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 100 Hong Kong University Press books in six subject areas: Economics and Finance, Film, Television and Radio, History, Linguistics, Literature, Society and Culture.
Features:
print and email articles ; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
Oxford Academic: Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable collection providing access to the full text of Oxford books in selected subject areas including: Economics and Finance, Law, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.
Features:
print and email articles ; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
The database includes collection of full text and abstracts of classic and newly published University press books in sociology module. The titles subscribed currently covers sociology modules under California Press Scholarship Online, Chicago Press Scholarship Online, and Policy Press Scholarship Online.
Features:
Print and email articles; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
Oxford Bibliographies provides a variety of academic topics. Every article in the database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, with original commentary and annotations. Oxford Bibliographies is reviewed and updated regularly, with 50-75 articles added per year to each subject area. It provides the access to the full text in selected subject areas including: Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, Chinese studies, Cinema and media studies, Classics, Communication, Criminology, Education, International law, Linguistics, Management, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, American literature, Victorian literature, Childhood studies, British and Irish literature, Literary and critical theory (Start from early July 2017).
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online contains the complete text of the 20 volumes Second Edition of the printed Oxford English Dictionary. The Dictionary presents the English vocabulary from the time of earliest records down to the present day, giving all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense history, pronunciation and etymology.
This collection contains miscellaneous papers and reports from the British legation and consulates in China. Specifically, it comprises a catalogue of embassy archives, 1727 to 1859; trade and intelligence reports; records of legal proceedings; miscellaneous papers, some in Chinese, of the Chinese Secretary's Office; an entry book of papers relating to the East India Company in China; claims arising from Sino-Japanese hostilities, 1927 to 1940; accounts; circulars, etc.
PEP-Web contains the premier journals and classic books in psychoanalysis. The PEP-Web Archive is updated annually in January with new books and journal titles, and current journal issues are added as they are published.
Embargoed Content: Due to contracts with publishers, there is a three to five year embargo on most current content. For the embargoed years, only abstracts and article summaries may be read on PEP-Web. However, the full text of all years is still completely searchable, making it easy to find current and relevant articles. To see the list of journal embargo dates go here.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Under this collection, there is a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai’s former International Settlement. This self-governing area was administered not by the Chinese but by the international group of merchants and bankers who paid the taxes and controlled the municipal council. The Special Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Police was charged with providing an orderly environment for Shanghai's foreign trade and commerce. Coverage: 1894-1945.
Features:
Search/browse/download/print
Sources:
Primary source of scanned articles
Coverage:
Date range of documents: 1894-1945; Reproduction of the originals from the U.S. National Archives.
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Click here to access PQDT Open. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and it is expected to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.
PressReader can bring the students unlimited access to over 7,000 trusted newspapers and magazines. They offer quality content from more than 120 countries in over 60 different languages. Users will stay connected to what’s happening locally and overseas. Moreover, they can find some relevant articles, credible sources, and information to back up their research.
Support mobile app:
Users can access PressReader via Android or iOS mobile app
The Social Sciences Collection for journals is a subset of the Premium Collection. It is a collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the social sciences. Building on MUSE's strengths in international relations and in aspects of political science and economics, this collection is designed to meet the needs of special libraries such as thinktanks, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and related organizations. Of the new journal titles added to MUSE each year, the best of those with a clear social science focus are added to the Social Sciences Collection.
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today. This database provides nearly 12,000 journals with over 9,000 available in full text.
It boasts over 160 subjects including core subject areas such as:
Business and economics
Health and medical
News and world affairs
Science
Education
Technology
Humanities
Social Sciences
Psychology
Literature
Law
Women's studies
and more
It also provides access to over 800 full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers; Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more; Concise business information from nearly 9,000 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT - Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT - Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Features:
Searchable citations
Sources:
Dissertations and Theses from 700 leading academic institutions worldwide
This database contains a large collection of books regarding different disciplines including:
The Arts
Business
Education
Health & Medicine
History
Law
Literature & Language
Religion & Philosophy
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
All pages of book are saved into the database in form of special format, so that users can retrieve these page-images one by one. These images not only can be viewed, but also, users can search from word to word within each book.
Special features would be available when users have opened up a personal account like the bookshelf, a place for user to save down information they searched.
This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
Features:
email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Sources:
Journals/dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings, etc.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1832 - 1953
Features:
Content is searchable, including editorials, cartoons, advertisements, and classified ads.
This collection is cross searchable with all of ProQuest’s historical and current newspapers.
This collection supports searching by article types, keyword, date ranges, specific dates, author and more.
Users can focus on relevant information quickly with hit-term highlighting and download articles and images in PDF format.
ProQuest Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, nearly 240 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Features:
Print / Save / Email articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Sources:
Poetry, drama, prose, journal, biography, criticism and reference resources, etc.
ProQuest RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. First-time users are required to sign up for an individual account.
Features:
Global edit, view in word/excel/powerpoint/PDF/open office formats
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.
Sources:
Journal, books, dissertations, conference paper and working papers
Journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The contents are covered from 1894 to Current
Provides access to the literature in psychology and related disciplines. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it has more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters. The contents are covered from 1806 to Current.
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-IV-TRR and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Much more than individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable users to quickly target all the information needed.
Library subscribes the DSM Premium collection, which covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, the latest research - all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.
System Requirement:
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 (for best results) or 800 x 600 (minimum supported resolution).
Features:
PDA downloads available for most book chapters/ email/print/alerts
Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Psychotherapy.net (Full Collection) is a complete collection of psychotherapy & counseling videos. The Full Collection will expand as new titles are regularly added throughout the subscription period.
Features:
Search/browse/click on any word to play video at that point/print or download transcript
Create your Qualtrics account (to be done once only):
Step 1: Go to https://hksyu.au1.qualtrics.com/login and you will be redirected to Shue Yan Portal Login page. Step 2: Login with your Shue Yan webmail account.
Descriptions:
Qualtrics is a simple to use web-based survey tool to create, design and distribute surveys for a variety of teaching and research needs, which is widely used by universities around the world.
There are unlimited accounts for the Qualtrics account on a yearly basics.
Refinitiv Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, a nalytics and exclusive news on financial markets - delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface. It covers all the major financial markets - equity, fixed income, commodities, foreign exchange and provides effective compliance and risk management, investment management and wealth management solutions. The content and analytics package includes pricing data, financial research, global financial news and commentary, financial estimates, fundamentals analysis, and visual analysis through charting
Features:
Equities screener, fund screener, Excel/ PowerPoint plug-in, portfolio tool
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy discovers a comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.
The Gale Research Complete Cross Search allow researchers to fully explore content across the Gale Research Complete package.
Users will be able to access topic and work portals, literature criticism, journals, magazines, news, eBooks, primary sources, business profiles, market research, and more, in a single set of search results, complemented by tools and features to support efficient research.
Features:
Maximize the value of the research experience by bringing together relevant results from across the Gale Research Complete package.
Organize and highlight unique content across subject areas, and drive usage of component resources.
Provide additional support to users via platform tools, robust indexing, and video tutorials to help guide the research process.
Functions:
Basic and Advanced Search options
Select Collections tool to limit to specific products and/or content types
Sage Knowledge contains thousands of eBooks titles on the topics across the social sciences. These topics are included Counseling & Psychotherapy; health & Social Care; Media, Communication & Cultural Studies; Politics & international relations; Psychology; Sociology; Social Work, etc.
Our library has subscribed 37 eBooks titles on the discipline of Social Work.
Source:
Sage Knowledge
Language:
English
Features:
Search and browse
How ro screen out our collection:
On “Quick filter” > i) Books: select “All books” ; ii) Works and Sections : “Entire Works” > 37 results found
SAGE Research Methods Suite (SRM Suite) includes SAGE Research Methods (SRM), SAGE Research Methods Cases (SRMC) and SAGE Research Methods Datasets (SRMD).
SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE's renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
SAGE Research Methods Cases is a collection of case studies of real social research that faculty can use in their teaching. Cases are original, specially commissioned, and designed to help students understand often abstract methodological concepts by introducing them to case studies of real research projects.
SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets that can be used to support the teaching and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences. These are datasets taken from larger national and international data sources, cleaned and reduced in size and complexity for teaching and self-study purposes, perfect for researchers learning a new method or brushing up on an old one.
Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum aligned reference content with headlines and videos, students see how scientific disciplines relate to real world issues.
With the Gale OneFile: Science, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.
More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is one of the largest open access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines including medical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer science & communications, earth & environmental sciences, engineering, medicine & healthcare, physics & mathematics, social sciences & humanities.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series provides original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author and their works.
Features:
Provides key biographical, historical and cultural background on influential writers and their works
More than 2,300 scholar-written entries over 1,700 influential authors
Cross-searchable with other Gale Literature resources
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open access repository of scholarly research in the social sciences. SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences including Economics, Financial Economics and Legal Scholarship.
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 500,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 400,000 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
Features:
Access to some features requires free registration
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
Features:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, and Firefox 3.0 or higher.
Social Work Online is a multimedia resource that combines video with relevant text content to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners. This collection provides over 100 hours of video and 50,000 pages for students to understand and the best way to serve their future clients' needs.
System Requirements:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
Gale Literature: Something About the Author provides comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's long-standing Something About the Author and Something About the Author Autobiography Series.This series examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators just starting a career in the industry, it covers more than 12,000 individuals across over 217 volumes.
Features:
Total more than 290 volumes, 20,000 entries, and 30,000 images
The database brings the editorial content of the South China Morning Post online edition together with breaking news and videos. It also allows users to retrieve any article, image or key word published in the database in the past 10 years. Users can also sub-select by subject and section category.
Features:
Browse current content and search keywords for archives in the past 10 years
Statista is one of the world's leading statistics portals offering statistics from over 22,500 sources as well as their own analytics on digital & consumer markets.
The features are:
Data aggregation and research platform with statistics and information covering 80,000 topics on worldwide markets, industries, and societal topics
All information is prepared and checked by Statista’s research team of more than 450 analysts in Hamburg, Germany
A reports database with over 50,000 studies and 5,500 exclusive dossiers and industry reports provides qualitative and quantitative data
Over 22,500 private, public, and proprietary from North American, European, and Asian sources
All statistics can be directly downloaded in PNG/PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint formats
All data prepared according to academic citation standards (MLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago, and Bluebook) with links to the original source for further research
An array of infographics used for illustration data visualization across all areas of interest including current events
All data can be published by authorized users with full-publication rights
The platform has English, Spanish, French and German versions
Features:
Browse, search, chart type setting, download in PNG, PDF, XLS, PPT, download, social media sharing
Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large. Murder, theatre, sport and politics - all collide in its pages in an abundance of glorious narrative detail. In more than 800,000 pages, The Sunday Times Digital Archiveis a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years.
Taylor & Francis Group collaborate with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. The Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:
First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.
The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.
This online series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World.
Features:
Contains hundreds of books from Twayne's Author Series, covering World, English and U.S. Authors.
Provides literary critical interpretation and discussion for readers and students in high school, college and beyond.
Cross-searchable with any combination of the Gale databases.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, thie library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism provides articles about conflicts and their causes, impact and perception on a global scale, for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science.
This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.
This database is an online legal research service which provides a unique collection of legal and regulatory information by combining materials from renowned content providers such as Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson West, ELLIS Publications, Lawbook Co and Carswell. The collection includes case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties, and directories.
Wiley digital textbooks provides over 20,000 digital textbooks, covering in-demand topics through partnering renowned authors and professional organizations such as CFA, CMA, CPA, AIChE, IEEE and more.
Loan period: 3 days for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user
Wisers One is the new platform of the WiseEnterprise. It includes the new layout which would make the users feel more convenient to read the news articles. Moreover, it can allow the users to switch the platforms between WiseEnterprise電子剪報 and WiseSearch.
WiseEnterprise
Users can monitor all articles under each monitoring item and proceed with article screening and browsing based on date, media category and media type of monitoring items according to daily usage habit. This bilingual database is updated daily to include today's news.
The news is from most local Chinese and English newspapers and magazines from China, Taiwan, Macau and United States.
The Hong Kong newspapers available are:
Hong Kong Commercial Daily (香港商報)
Hong Kong Daily News (新報)
Hong Kong Economic Journal (信報)
Hong Kong Economic Times (香港經濟日報)
Metropolis Daily (都市日報)
Ming Pao (明報)
Oriental Daily News (東方日報)
Sing Pao (成報)
Sing Tao Daily (星島日報)
SCMP.COM (南華早報網上版)
The Standard (英文虎報)
The Sun (太陽報)
Ta Kung Po (大公報)
Wen Wei Po (文匯報)
Features:
Email / print / save articles, functions: marked articles, etc.
Sources:
Newspapers & Magazines from print publications and online medias
Language:
Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese or English
System Requirements:
Browser: Google Chrome is suggested for the best usage results. In addition, the Platform supports Internet Explorer11.0, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, 360 extreme speed browser, among others
WiseSearch is the platform which can be switch from Wisers One.
Based on the world-leading all-media business intelligence database, WiseSearch provides reliable market research, brand research, industry research and business intelligence, thereby facilitating users to make business decisions.
Apart from searching the news, this platform could do the comparison for you after you set the criteria on the specific topics.
The news is from most local Chinese and English newspapers and magazines from China, Taiwan, Macau and United States.
The Hong Kong newspapers available are:
Hong Kong Commercial Daily (香港商報)
Hong Kong Daily News (新報)
Hong Kong Economic Journal (信報)
Hong Kong Economic Times (香港經濟日報)
Metropolis Daily (都市日報)
Ming Pao (明報)
Oriental Daily News (東方日報)
Sing Pao (成報)
Sing Tao Daily (星島日報)
SCMP.COM (南華早報網上版)
The Standard (英文虎報)
The Sun (太陽報)
Ta Kung Po (大公報)
Wen Wei Po (文匯報)
Features:
Email / print / save articles, functions: marked articles, etc.
Sources:
Newspapers & Magazines from print publications and online medias
Language:
Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese or English
System Requirements:
Browser: Google Chrome is suggested for the best usage results. In addition, the Platform supports Internet Explorer11.0, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, 360 extreme speed browser, among others
World Dissertation Library (WDL) is a high-quality scholar database specialized in dissertations, thesis, and academic papers. It has more than 2,000 educational institutions all over the planet, from more than 150 countries and regions. It is dedicated to providing the best information service to educators, teachers, researchers, and students in every major discipline, including but not limited to science and technology, engineering sciences, agronomy, medicine and health, social sciences, economy, management science, and more.
Features:
2,850,000+ Licensed Dissertations & Theses.
1000+ World’s Top Universities Coverage
More than 20+ languages, including 10+ Europe, Asia, etc.
Abstracts Translation from other foreign language to ENGLISH.
Graphical Abstracts: WDL transforms all graphical charts & images within the dissertation into the abstracts area, so to ease the user finding them.
Functions:
All dissertations/theses are in PDF format, downloadable to any device.
You can filter your results by Sources, Categories, Years, Countries, Language, and Degrees.
“Related” dissertations, “Hot” dissertations, and “Same Advisor” dissertations will be shown aside with the searched results.
AI Chat-Bot; A new AI technology to enhance the searching for more related theses & dissertations for the researchers within the WDL internal database.
Gale In Context: World History takes learners from the ancient world to today's headlines, delivering a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race.
Features:
Search/browse/download/print
Sources:
Rare primary sources, reliable references, and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students.
Gale OneFile: World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a database of bibliography. It provides annotated entries for all Shakespeare-related books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audio-visual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and the present.
Features:
The most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions.
Over 135,500 annotated and cross-referenced entries and over a million reviews.
Provides diverse types of content, including books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, reviews of films and stage productions, and multimedia.
Extends to over 120 languages, representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
Sources cover work/productions from 1960 to today, and the site is updated on an on-going basis.
Complex bibliographic searches by subject, author, title, and phrases.
收錄臺灣各大專院校之博碩士論文資料。除提供摘要外，1998年後已獲作者授權之論文亦提供電子全文下載的服務。 A bilingual database that provides abstracts of theses and dissertations in Taiwan. Starting in 1998, some full text are also provided for those with author's permission.
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