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.
This collection offers more than 27,500 business e-books selected to assist students and scholars with various business research, special projects and entrepreneurial needs. A key resource for academic and business school libraries, eBook Business Collection encompasses a variety of topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.
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More than 27,500 e-books related to the study of business
This collection of popular IT e-books helps researchers broaden their knowledge of the IT industry to help support decision-making, inform product design and promote best practices. This robust collection includes more than 4,400 e-books covering a wide range of topics from content management and desktop applications to graphic design and multimedia
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More than 4,400 e-books related to the study of information technology (IT)
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.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) 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.
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile) 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.
Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile) 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."
Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history. Although the archive concentrates mainly on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also covers events and topics from around the globe.
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) The materials document issues of social justice and how attitudes about civil rights, gender equality, the environment, the government, and citizen involvement, public welfare, and the planet's health in the twentieth century.
Relevance to Today’s Issues We can better understand the multitude of ideas today by hearing the visions and goals of the originators in their own words.
Comprehensive Coverage The collection offers a myriad of opportunities to see how movements and issues are interconnected and interrelated.
Visually Appealing These materials offer teachable moments in easily accessible publications and images.
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.
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Searchable citations
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Psychology (Gale OneFile) 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
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