New Databases

You can access these new databases via the Library website.
1. Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
The database is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
2. Social Theory
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.
Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
3. ProQuest Entrepreneurship
This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners.
The 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 texts and PDFs.
Besides, Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) 中文電子期刊服務 has been upgraded from TEPS.
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HKU Scholars Hub

The HKU Scholars Hub is the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong. Click here to access HKU Scholars Hub.
You can also follow the below steps to access HKU Scholars Hub:
1st Access Location
Step 1: Access HKSYU Library Homepage
Step 2: Click “Collections”
Step 3: Select “Internet Resources”
Step 4: Select “Dissertations and Theses”
Step 5: Select “HKU Scholars Hub”
2nd Access Location
Step 1: Access HKSYU Library Homepage
Step 2: Click “Collections”
Step 3: Select “Dissertations”
Step 4: Select “HKU Scholars Hub (Internet Resource)”
As a key vehicle of HKU’s Knowledge Exchange initiative, The Hub strives to make HKU authors and their research very visible, with the goal of increasing all forms of collaboration. As well as being able to search the repository by a range of fields, such as by author, title and type, users can also view ResearcherPages, with entries for each HKU researcher.
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DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

DOAJ (The Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
You can also follow the steps below to access DOAJ:

  1. Access HKSYU Library Homepage
  2. Click “Online Databases”
  3. Select “Alphabetical list” or “Subject list”
  4. Select “DOAJ”

DOAJ provides free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including:
Agriculture & Food Sciences, Arts & Architecture, Biology & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History & Archaeology, Languages & Literatures, Law & Political Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Philosophy & Religion, Physics & Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering, & many languages.
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PQDT Open (Full-texts of Open Access Dissertations & Theses)

PQDT Open provides the full texts of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Click here to access PQDT Open.
You can also follow the steps below to access PQDT Open:

  1. Access HKSYU Library Homepage
  2. Click “Online Databases”
  3. Select “Alphabetical list” or “Subject list”
  4. Select “PQDT Open”

Or

  1. Access HKSYU Library Homepage
  2. Click “Collections”
  3. Select “Dissertation”
  4. Select “PQDT Open (Internet Resource)”

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.
Search tips: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/help/search_tips.html
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