Leadership and Management (Gale OneFile) 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.
Integrated our subscribed The New York Times and The New York Times in Education, the New York Times Learning Network connects classrooms to the world with The New York Times contents and provides opportunities daily for teenagers to both learn the issues that matter to them and raise their voices in response to it.
Features:
Lessons and Teaching Ideas
Lesson Plans Short lesson plans based on Times content.
Teaching Ideas Ideas and inspiration for teaching with The Times.
Writing Prompts
Student Opinion Questions (Daily) Daily questions inspired by Times content from across sections.
Picture Prompts (Tuesday-Friday) Accessible, image-driven prompts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
Current Events Conversation (Weekly on Thursdays) A weekly round-up of our favorite student comments on recent news and issues.
Quizzes and Vocabulary
Word of the Day (Daily) Learn vocabulary with The New York Times.
Student News Quizzes (Weekly) A current events quiz that tests students about the biggest news stories.
Geography Quizzes (Monthly) Introduce students to over 150 countries via Times maps, photos and journalism.
Photos, Graphs & Videos
What’s Going On in This Picture? (Weekly on Mondays) Times images without their captions and an invitation to students to discuss the live.
What’s Going On in This Graph? (Weekly on Wednesdays) Graphs, maps and charts from The Times and an invitation to students to discuss them live.
Film Club (Weekly on Thursdays) Short documentary films and related discussion questions.
Contests & Challenges
Contests Ten challenges that invite teenagers to engage via writing, photography, audio, video and more.
Accessible Activities A curated selection of student activities for a broad range of readers and writers.
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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.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher ; Navigator 7.2 or above
Lexis+ Hong Kong (new platform of Lexis Advance Hong Kong) is a law database that provides a comprehensive collection of legal materials, such as cases, statutes, law reviews, etc. related to Hong Kong.
Features:
Precise Lexis+® Hong Kong integrates AI and GPT-powered technologies to enhance search results.
Labour-saving You can obtain data-driven analytical results,find reference documents, and more, quickly and efficiently.
User-friendly The brand new and modern interface allows you to customise your homepage according to your preference and research habits.
Seamless By jumping between all analytical, research and drafting tools on one single platform, you can enjoy a seamless legal research and drafting journey.
Literary Index (Gale) 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
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130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers.
Literature (Gale) 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.
Literature Criticism (Gale) 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
Literature Resource Center (Gale) 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
LitFinder (Gale Literature) 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.
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