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.
Chemistry (Gale Interactive) is an online database experience utilizing 3D images and animations to explore elements, molecules & compounds, crystals, reactions and advanced reactions in chemistry.
Diplomacy and Political Secrets comprises a compilation of 4,204 rare China-related historical documents carefully selected from three series within the India Office Records now held at the British library: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma Office records, and the Records of the Military Department. These documents consist of manuscripts and monographs in the form of reports, memoranda, correspondence, pamphlets and official publications, intelligence diaries, accounts of political and scientific expeditions, travel diaries, handbooks and maps.
Features:
Discover text that includes handwriting with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
Mine this content within Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
Find related resources in the Gale eBooks collection using the Related Resources feature
China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China 1841–1951 presents a collection of British government documents on colonial Hong Kong, spanning a period of over a century. The collection provides a valuable primary source for researching colonial Hong Kong between 1841 and 1951, with detailed information on the political, military, social, economic, and external development of Hong Kong. It also sheds light on the British Empire, China’s transformation from empire to republic, mainland China-Hong Kong relations, and the international politics of East Asia.
China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China Part II, 1965–1993 provides scholars with essential reference material for researching Hong Kong and its interactions with mainland China, UK, US, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia.
While the focus of the collection is on Hong Kong, a high proportion of the content relates well to the history of modern China and her relations with her neighbours (e.g., Japan) and the West (Britain and the US), covering many historical events such as the Vietnam War, Cultural Revolution, tensions across the Taiwan Strait, China’s reform and opening-up, and negotiations on the return of Hong Kong to China.
Types of documents include manuscripts, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) will be applied to all relevant documents, allowing users to search for handwritten as well as printed text within the documents.
Imperial China and The West, Part I, 1815-1881 provides General Correspondence relating to China from 1815–1881. In this part, scholars will find material relating to the internal politics of China and Britain, their relationship, and the relationships between other Western powers keen to benefit from the growing trading ports of the Far East.
The FO 17 series provides a vast and significant resource for researching every aspect of Anglo-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, ranging from diplomacy and war, to trade, piracy, riots and rebellions within China, international law, treaty ports and informal empire, transnational emigration, and translation and cross-cultural communication.
Features:
Discover text that includes handwriting with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
Mine this content within Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
Find related resources in the Gale eBooks collection using the Related Resources feature
Imperial China and The West, Part II, 1865-1905 provides General Correspondence relating to China from 1865–1905. Here, scholars will find material relating to the internal politics of China and Britain, their relationship, and the relationships among other Western powers, and China’s neighbours in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
The FO 17 series provides a vast and significant resource for researching every aspect of China-West relations during the nineteenth century, ranging from diplomacy and war, to trade, piracy, riots and rebellions within China, international law, treaty ports and informal empire, transnational emigration, and translation and cross-cultural communication.
Features:
Discover text that includes handwriting with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
Mine this content within Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
Find related resources in the Gale eBooks collection using the Related Resources feature
China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals (1817-1949) is a collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in or about China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. This resource features a significant collection of articles and photos on the founding and development of Christian higher education in China, including the establishment and growth into prominence of such institutions as Yenching University, the University of Nanking, Ginling College, Shandong Christian University, Soochow University, St. John’s University, Shanghai Baptist College, and the Canton Christian College.
Records of Shanghai and the International Settlement, 1836-1955 provides a primary source collection vital to understanding and researching the social, political, legal, and economic history of the Shanghai International Settlement as well as the history of modern China from 1836 to 1955.
Comprised of nine series of British Foreign Office files from The National Archives in the United Kingdom, plus the records of the British Ministry of Labour, Treasury, and War Office, this collection illuminates Shanghai and the International Settlement as the seat that shaped the history of modern China as it transformed from an imperial dynasty to a globally engaged republic.
The archive consists of a wide range of archival documents, including general correspondence; reports; maps and plans; and photographs etc. that produced by the Foreign Office, British legation in China, British Consulate in Shanghai, British Supreme Court for China, and so on.
Features:
Discover text that includes handwriting with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
Mine this content within Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
Find related resources in the Gale eBooks collection using the Related Resources feature
China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949) provides an excellent primary source collection for the study of China and its relations with the West in the late Qing and Republican periods. The records included in this collection - official correspondence, despatches, reports, memoranda, and private and confidential letters - constitute invaluable and often unique evidence of Chinese life, the economy and politics through the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the May 30 Movement, the two Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War.
Regional China and the West, 1759-1972 consists of 38 British Foreign Office series, documenting the social, economic, and political histories of more than 20 Chinese coastal and inland treaty ports from the late Qing to the Republican eras.
This collection provides a significant compendium of historical documents and forms a complement to Imperial China and the West, Part I and II. Researchers will find valuable insight into Chinese-Western relations, ranging from diplomacy to trade, economy, law, and politics.
Features:
Discover text at all search levels with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
Mine content within Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Enhance student learning with the series’ Learning Center
Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
Find related resources in the Gale eBooks collection
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.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile) 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.
Computer Science (Gale OneFile) 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.
Note: Users need to create a Consensus account using HKSYU email address on the website.
Descriptions:
Consensus is an AI academic search engine, grounded in scientific research, that can generate literature review with real citations, analyse and extracts key information from research articles and provide concise summaries and highlighting important points. Consensus can assist you in understanding of the literature quickly and streamline the literature review process.
Features:
Consensus can label articles based on study type (e.g., systematic review, RCT) and journal reputation, allowing users to prioritize their reading.
It also gives users the option to limit the publication year range.
Functions:
Summary: It can analyse and extract key information from research articles, providing concise summaries.
Consensus Meter: For Yes/No questions, it indicates the level of agreement among the summarized papers on a particular topic to show distribution of supporting and contrasting evidence.
Filter: You can filter search results based on study types, study, and sample.
Contemporary Authors (Gale Literature) 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
Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) 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.
Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile) 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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