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EBSCOhost - 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.

Gale Academic OneFile 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.

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Powered by Gale OneFile, it includes more than 1,800 titles. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

Gale Business: Insights is a unique source for international business intelligence, offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.

Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship - Mapped to four key business stages — plan, fund, start and manage.

This resource covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. More than 850 business plans are included from the Business Plans Handbook series, with new business plans added monthly.

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, analyse and visualize research.

Statista is a leading global data and business intelligence platform, established in Germany in 2007, that provides comprehensive access to statistics, reports, and insights across more than 80,000 topics and 170 industries. Serving business professionals, researchers, and educators, Statista consolidates data from over 22,500 sources, presenting information in user-friendly charts and tables available in multiple languages, including English, German, French, and Spanish.

The platform supports fact-based decision-making by offering market analyses, consumer insights, industry reports, and customised research services, empowering users to efficiently access and process relevant market and consumer data.

ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated multi-disciplinary full-text database across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

ScienceDirect is Elsevier's premier platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. It advances research and scholarship with the world's leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical and health literature. There are 21M articles & book chapters, 800 open-access journals and 3.3M open-access articles on the platform. It contains a large collection of Social Sciences and Humanities journals and books, highlighting historical context, current developments, theories, applications, trends and more.

The Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:

• Arts & Humanities
• Behavioral Science Business, Management & Economics
• Criminology & Law
• Education
• Media, Cultural & Communications Studies
• Politics, International Relations & Area Studies
• Public Health & Social Care
• Sociology & Related Disciplines

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.

This Emerald collection contains 39 journals with high quality, more than half of them are listed in SCOPUS. Contributors come from leading institutes like University of Chicago Booth (USA), The University of Cambridge (UK) and KPMG. A few journal titles include The Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, one of the top ten accounting journal ranked by Google Scholar and is indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI); International Journal of Manpower which is also listed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) with more than 30 years of history.

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ProQuest Ebook Central provides a breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers, covering the subjects of Arts, Business, Education, Health and Medicine, History and Political Science, Law, Literature and Language, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, and Science and Technology.

EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides access to an extensive collection of ebook titles in various subjects. It includes a broad range of titles, in areas such as arts & architecture, business & economics, computer science, education, engineering & technology, fiction, history, literature & criticism, political science, religion and social sciences.

Pearson Business Professional eBook Subscription 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.

Wiley Digital Textbooks published by Wiley, currently feature over 20,000 original academic textbooks, covering more than 30 disciplines, including Business Management, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Life and Earth Sciences, Medical Health, Social Sciences, Hospitality Management, and Humanities.

Loan period: 3 days for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user

VitalSource is the e-textbook platform which provides many different subjects of the e-textbooks. Users could borrow them via this platform. It supports mobile app in IOS and Android, users can read offline accordingly. Furthermore, users can make notes on their borrowed e-textbooks during the loan period.

Loan period: 1 day for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user

McGraw-Hill eBook Library contains e-book titles available in subscribed business collection, including clusters of Business Skills, Career Advice, Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, Finance & Investing, Human Resources & Training, Leadership & Management, Process Management, Real Estate, Sales & Marketing. Users can create their own accounts, add notes, bookmarks and highlights and print parts of the book for their personal use.

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Zotero is a free, open-source citation management tool designed to assist researchers in collecting, organising, citing, and sharing a wide range of research materials, including books, articles, reports, and web pages. It supports multiple operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Linux, and integrates seamlessly with word processors like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice to facilitate the creation of in-text citations and bibliographies in numerous citation styles.

Zotero also enables users to manage their research libraries effectively through features such as tagging, folder organisation, and collaborative group libraries, making it a versatile tool for academic research and writing. Its browser extension allows for quick capture of bibliographic information from online sources, enhancing research efficiency and accuracy.

EndNote is a library-subscribed citation management software designed to assist researchers, students, and academics in efficiently organising, storing, and citing bibliographic references throughout the research and writing process. It enables users to collect references from various sources, including databases and library catalogues, and supports the management of PDFs, images, and other research materials within customisable libraries.

EndNote integrates seamlessly with word processing programs such as Microsoft Word through its Cite While You Write feature, allowing automatic insertion and formatting of citations and bibliographies in thousands of citation styles. This automation streamlines the creation of scholarly documents, saving time and enhancing accuracy in referencing. EndNote is widely adopted in academic institutions and is available on multiple platforms, offering both desktop and web-based versions to facilitate research collaboration and accessibility across devices.

Mendeley is a free, cross-platform citation management software developed by Elsevier that facilitates the organisation, storage, and citation of research materials. It enables users to build a personal digital library, manage and annotate PDFs, and automatically generate bibliographies and in-text citations in various referencing styles. Additionally, Mendeley supports collaboration through shared groups, allowing researchers to connect and work together efficiently.

Its compatibility across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms, along with seamless integration with word processing software like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice, ensures broad accessibility and supports efficient academic workflows across devices.

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Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine designed to streamline and enhance the research process for students, faculty, and researchers. Built on the extensive Semantic Scholar database, which encompasses over 200 million peer-reviewed documents, Consensus leverages artificial intelligence to surface the most relevant research findings in response to user queries. Unlike traditional search engines that simply provide a list of links, Consensus extracts key insights and evidence directly from academic papers, offering concise, evidence-based summaries and always citing original sources.

The platform supports both keyword and conversational searches, enabling users to efficiently locate, analyse, and synthesise scholarly literature across all domains of science. Advanced features such as AI-powered search filters, study snapshots, and synthesis tools help users quickly assess research quality, identify highly cited or rigorous studies, and gain a comprehensive overview of the literature. Consensus is particularly valuable for conducting literature reviews, finding supporting evidence for academic writing, exploring new research questions, developing hypotheses, and identifying research gaps.

Users are required to register an account using HKSYU email to access Consensus’s premium features.

Scite is an advanced AI-powered research platform designed to help researchers and scholars better discover, understand, and evaluate scientific literature through the use of Smart Citations. These Smart Citations provide context around how journal articles are cited, indicating whether the citations support, contradict, or merely mention the referenced work. This feature allows users to assess the credibility and impact of scholarly articles more effectively.

The platform offers robust tools for literature search and citation analysis. Features include visual citation maps, interactive dashboards, and real-time alerts for new citations or editorial notices. Scite also offers an AI Research Assistant, which generates evidence-based answers to research queries. Scite’s Reference Check function helps researchers verify the reliability of their sources by identifying retracted or disputed references, thus supporting research integrity. Additionally, Scite integrates with popular citation management tools and provides browser extensions for seamless access to citation data across the web.

By combining a comprehensive database of over 1.2 billion citation statements with advanced AI and natural language processing, Scite empowers researchers, students, and academics to make informed decisions, streamline literature reviews, and ensure the quality of their scholarly work.

Users are required to register an account using HKSYU email to access scite features such as notifications, Assistant history, and dashboards.

Discover@ShueYan Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered research tool designed to enhance academic discovery by enabling users to conduct intuitive natural language searches across extensive library resources. Developed by Clarivate in collaboration with the library community, it leverages advanced semantic search technology and a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture grounded in the Ex Libris Central Discovery Index, which includes over 5 billion records from thousands of publishers and repositories.

The assistant provides immediate, AI-generated answers supported by references to the top five most relevant scholarly sources, facilitating quick comprehension and easy access to full texts. It also offers search suggestions to help users broaden their research scope and supports queries in multiple languages. By combining reliable, peer-reviewed academic content with transparent sourcing, Discover@ShueYan Research Assistant aims to support students and researchers in efficiently navigating complex information landscapes with confidence and precision.

Microsoft Copilot is an advanced AI assistant designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows across various Microsoft platforms. By leveraging Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and proprietary Microsoft AI, Copilot integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 applications-including Windows OS, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams-to provide real-time, context-aware support. It assists users by generating content, offering intelligent suggestions, automating routine tasks, and summarising information based on user prompts. This AI-powered tool personalises responses while maintaining strict adherence to data privacy and security standards, thereby facilitating efficient collaboration and decision-making in professional and academic environments.

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Perplexity is an advanced AI-powered knowledge platform, available for free with optional premium features, designed to deliver accurate, concise, and well-sourced information in response to user queries. Leveraging state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models and real-time internet search capabilities, Perplexity provides clear, reliable answers across a wide range of topics. Its features include article summarisation, contextual memory for seamless multi-step inquiries, and transparent source citations, making it an invaluable tool for professionals, researchers, and students seeking trustworthy information efficiently.

HKSYU ChatGPT is a secure and private AI-powered chatbot platform developed using Microsoft Azure OpenAI services, exclusively accessible to the University community including faculty, staff, and students. Introduced in August 2023 as part of a one-year pilot run, this platform supports the University’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence into teaching, learning, and research while upholding academic integrity and user privacy.

Unlike publicly available AI tools, HKSYU ChatGPT does not use users’ prompts for model training, and users have control over their chat history. The service is designed to enhance digital literacy and foster ethical AI use, providing token-based monthly usage quotas to staff and students to facilitate responsible and effective engagement with generative AI technology. This initiative aligns with the University’s vision to innovate liberal arts education through digital technology and prepare students with essential future skills in the digital era.