National Geographic Virtual Library (Gale) 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
News (Gale OneFile) 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.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West. These invaluable documents allow scholars to explore the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy in Asia in greater detail. Topics include Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and more.
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange also includes personal letters and diaries that offer researchers firsthand accounts revealing the human side of international politics, in addition to nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports, that explore more than a century of world history.
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
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class – from the late eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early twentieth century – through a transnational perspective.
Features:
Textual Analysis Tools Identify and visualize patterns, trends and relationships to explore content in new ways. Underlying data and text are exportable for further analysis.
Subject Indexing Making content accessible and exposing key data elements
Zotero Compatible Optimized for Zotero for collecting, citing and organizing sources
User-Generated Tags and Annotations Allows users to create/add their own metadata
User Accounts Users can save documents and edit their tags and annotations.
Image Viewer Zoom, highlight, rotate, reverse (negative image), change the brightness or contrast, and view pages in full-screen mode.
Download The OCR text of printed works
Functions:
Basic search
Advanced Search
Analyze your results with Gale Digital Scholar
Cross-search through Gale Primary Sources
Term Frequency
Topic Finder
Citation tools
PDF Downloading
Sources:
Primary sources (serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals)
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) 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:
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