The site includes databases available from EBSCOhost, such as Academic Search premier, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, Business Source Complete, CIHAHL Plus, Communication & Mass Media Complete, MAS Ultra-School Edition, Primary search, ERIC, Serials directory, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and EBSCO Animals.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students; HKU SPACE borrowers
Web site provides access to the research and advisory firm's information technology news, research reports, and business and market analysis, and includes product descriptions and comparisons, information on trends, and a calendar of upcoming conferences and events for IT managers, specialists, and business interests.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students
A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students
Contains an alphabetical list of Springer electronic journals subscribed by the University of Hong Kong. Abstracts and full-text of the journal articles are available. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students; HKU SPACE borrowers; Circle of Friends
Covers over 12,000 journals from 256 categories from 1900 and has direct links to full text and library holdings information. It also includes over 148,000 proceedings from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions worldwide.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students; HKU SPACE borrowers
A database of full-text newspaper clippings with search capabilities. Hong Kong newspapers cover 1998 onwards. China, Taiwan and Macau's newspapers cover from 2000.Mainly in Chinese with some content in English.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students; HKU SPACE borrowers
ClinicalKey Student provides access to over 200 medical e-textbooks, thousands of images and many videos. It is an interactive education platform, with a study tool feature that allows customers to annotate the text and make notes.
Please login with your ClinicalKey account if you have one. If not, please click "Register here" on the database homepage to create an account.
To support all researchers during the pandemic, EDP Sciences has opened all its journal content from 2018-2020 to the public for free. Journals not owned by EDP Sciences and those EDP Sciences has not yet received permission excluded.
To support online learning under the current COVID-19 situation, Elsevier is offering complimentary access to all their eBooks (All years, All packages, Series and Major Reference Works) until 9 September 2020. Free access to e-textbooks will be available through 31 August 2020.
This database contains Fast Facts medical handbooks that cover information on specific diseases, their diagnosis and management, and 10-min quizzes to consolidate learning and identify areas for improvement.
Project MUSE is making scholarly content temporarily available for participating publishers on ProjectMuse platform. Over 25,000 books and more than 300 journals are temporarily free to access for users worldwide. The list of participating publishers (https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/#freepublishers), along with details on what content is free and for how long, is being continually updated. Content that is freely available during the COVID-19 crisis will display a distinctive “Free” icon, different from the “OA” icon used for fully open access content on MUSE, or the familiar green checkmark that users associate with content held by the Library. MUSE search results, by default, include any content to which HKU has access, so will offer a user any relevant free, OA, or entitled articles and books.
1. Sign up and enter your preferred email address to create a personal account. 2. Go to “institutional access” and add “University of Hong Kong” to your account. 3. View the full text articles of HKUL subscribed journals or open access.
University of Michigan Press (UMP) has extended global free-to-read access to the UMP EBook Collection (1000+ titles). The books are free-to-read not but not downloadable. The collection includes UMP scholarly and adoptable titles published since 2012, but excludes some textbooks and trade titles.
