Academic OneFile (Gale) is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.
Academic Video Online contains over 70,000 titles of the award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, and training videos. The subjects are included Business, Counselling, Film, Health, History, Music, etc. There are lots of useful resources to all types of patrons for educational use.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, Firefox 3.0 or higher; Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher
ACLS Humanities E-Book includes several thousands of full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. The project includes both in-print and out-of-print books and many prize-winning works. It is an ongoing collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS and over 100 publishers.
This collection presents topically focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics such as Business and Economic History, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, etc. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
The database brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands.
Diplomacy and Political Secrets comprises a compilation of 4,204 rare China-related historical documents carefully selected from three series within the India Office Records now held at the British library: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Discover text that includes handwriting with Gale’s handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology
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Cross-search content from other Gale Primary Sources archives
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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.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a service of OAPEN Foundation. It aims to increase discoverability of academic, peer reviewed books published under open access license. The directory covers various subjects including arts and architecture, business and economics, history and archaeology, languages and literatures, law and political science, philosophy and religion, social sciences and more.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including Agriculture and Food Sciences,Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, etc. and many languages.
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All journal titles can be searched and browsed. Some journals are searchable at article level.
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection provides access to over 2,000 e-books in humanities and social sciences. Key subject areas include anthropology, art history and theory, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film and television, gender and sexuality studies, Latin American studies, political theory, and science studies. The collection includes term access to all available backlist titles published by Duke University Press as well as perpetual access to at least 100 new e-books each calendar year.
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Print/download by chapters; search/browse; cite/share
An e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multi-displinary research. It supports full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations. The titles can also be searched in the Library Catalogue
Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. It also includes the full content of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies from the 1971 up to the 1991 volumes (published in 1997).
In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Publishing created a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples
Historical Abstracts with Full Text offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. It contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This database offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, full text for about 170 history magazines, 112,000 historical documents, 119,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical videos.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
550 = Total number of Reference Books
56 = Total number of Magazine/Periodicals/Journals
176 = Total number of Biographical Collections (includes over 43,000 biographies of historical figures)
6 = Total number of Pamphlets
51 = Total number of Primary Source Document Collections (includes over 57,600 historical documents)
Humanities Source Ultimate offers access to key content covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It also includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals cited in leading subject indexes to round out student research.
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Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This ebook reference collection offers over 200 eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This ebook reference collection offers over 100 eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.
Features:
Email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
This platform provides thousands of academic videos for unlimited access. Users could add the videos onto LibGuides, distance educational courses and social media platforms. Moreover, the videos could be saved in the personal folder. It could make the users to feel more convenient to prepare the resources for their studies.
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Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a cloud-based research platform that allows students and scholars to apply natural language processing (NLP) tools to raw text data (OCR) from our library's Gale Primary Sources holdings, or from uploaded OCR.
Digital Scholar Lab removes some significant barriers to digital humanities (DH), and streamlines the workflow process of performing analyses, finding, cleaning, and organising data, natural language processing (NLP) for historical texts.
Features:
Build your content sets
Clean texts for computational analysis
Analyze content in powerful new ways
Single platform Text and Data Mining (TDM) environment
Gale Primary Sources databases: One-stop platform is a universal research experience that combines Gale's acclaimed digital archives in a single cross-search interface. This powerful platform greatly enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents through the use of multiple search options and research tools.
The Gale Primary Sources cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.
Features:
Cross-search all available Gale digital archives from a single interface
Explore history through digitized, text-searchable primary sources
Discover new connections using Topic Finder and Term Frequency
General OneFile (Gale) is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
History of Feminism is an online platform that brings together the best and most relevant scholarship from Taylor & Francis, its imprints, and its authors.
This resource covers the fascinating subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776-1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes:
Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Our library subscribes Social Sciences editions.
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Published annually (approximately June) following the year of coverage
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections.
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print and email articles ; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
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.
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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.
create a free NYTimes.com account using your university email address.
(If you already have a NYTimes.com account associated with your university email address, log in with those credentials. Remember to login out when you leave the platform. You may download NYTimes mobile apps via Google Play.)
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
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
Oxford Academic: Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable collection providing access to the full text of Oxford books in selected subject areas including: Economics and Finance, Law, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.
Features:
print and email articles ; use "Adobe Acrobate Reader" to view articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
Sources:
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 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.
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is one of the largest open access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines including medical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer science & communications, earth & environmental sciences, engineering, medicine & healthcare, physics & mathematics, social sciences & humanities.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
State Papers Online Colonial is a digitization program of the Colonial Office files of the British Government. This programme starts with Asia, covering the British Colonies: Hong Kong, Wei-Hai-Wei, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore and Borneo. It is their administration and governance, and their relations with surrounding countries in the region and across the globe that are the subject of the documents.
The majority of the documents date from the twentieth century and cover the colonial period up to World War II, the war period when the Japanese army occupied most of Southeast Asia, and the ending of colonial rule and development of independent nations as part of the commonwealth or otherwise.
The library’s subscribed content includes:
State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part 1: Far East, Hong Kong and Wei-Hai-Wei.
State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part 2: Singapore, East Malaysia, and Brunei.
Features:
Cross-search capability
Comparative analysis
Multiple ways to explore
Handwritten text recognition
Functions:
Basic Search
Advanced Search
Topic Finder
Term Frequency
Analyze Tools with Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The Times Educational Supplement Archive provides a unique teaching and learning resource for students to explore the world’s oldest continuous educational publication. Featuring more than 4,300 issues, researchers will find ample material in many fields across the humanities and social sciences, including education, social history, women’s studies, public health, literature and the arts.
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
U.S. History (Gale OneFile) provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, thie library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
World History (Gale In Context) takes learners from the ancient world to today's headlines, delivering a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race.
Features:
Search/browse/download/print
Sources:
Rare primary sources, reliable references, and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students.
World History (Gale OneFile) provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
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