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 Consisting of monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence and letters, photos, and other kinds of historical documents, these collections provide excellent primary source material for the understanding and research of the various aspects of China during the nineteenth and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.
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