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
China InfoBank is a web-based online service on China's news, business and legal information. It includes 15 Chinese language databases: China Business News Database, China Business Report Database, China Law and Regulation Database, China Listed Company Database, Hong Kong Listed Company Database, China Who's Who Database, China Medical and Health Database, INFOBANK Business Briefing, English Publications, Glossary, China Government Organization Database, China Company Directory, China Statistics Database and Chinese journal, [China in planning and establishing Database]中國資訊行提供網上卽時的中國新聞, 商業及法律資訊. 包括15個數據庫: 中國經濟新聞庫, 中國商業報告庫, 中國法律法規庫, 中國上市公司文獻庫, 香港上市公司資料庫, 中國人物庫, 中國醫療健康庫, INFOBANK環球商訊庫, 英文資料庫, 名詞解釋庫, 中國中央及地方政府機構庫, 中國企業產品庫, 中國統計數據庫, 中文報刊庫, 中國擬建在建項目數據庫簡体中文; 部分資料為英文/中(簡体)英對照.
Authorized remote access: Current HKU staff and students; HKU SPACE borrowers
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America in World War Two – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
To support online teaching and learning under COVID-19, Bloomsbury Collections ebooks are now free to access until 31 May 2020. The collections contain over 6,000 titles, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as titles from Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing.
Free online access to Cambridge Core textbooks during the COVID-19 outbreak All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased.
Cambridge reference collections - Cambridge Companions – COVID-19 free access Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Elements are now free through to the end of May 2020.
Cambridge reference collections - Cambridge Elements – COVID-19 free access Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Elements are now free through to the end of May 2020.
Cambridge reference collections – COVID-19 free access Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Elements are now free through to the end of May 2020.
China, Culture and Society – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Church Missionary Society Periodicals – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
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.
ClinicalKey Student Nursing is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty with trusted nursing content and comprehensive learning tools. This platform provides students with a wide range of nursing sources to enhance their studies. Faculty have access to materials to support their teaching, and can also support students by assigning content that supplements the curriculum and supports the learning process.
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 help support online learning and remote research, the following publishers are offering free access to all of their ebooks on GeoScienceWorld through 30 June 2020: American Association of Petroleum, Geologists Canadian Science Publishing, Clay Minerals Society , Geological Society of America , Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, PSAAPG Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology, Society of Economic Geologists and University of Wyoming.
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.
Ethnomusicology – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
First World War Portal – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Food and Drink in History – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Ebsco is offering unlimited free access to Harvard Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection until 30 May 2020 to support online teaching and learning. The collection contains the complete catalogue of Harvard Business Review e-books of over 600+ titles, including 400+ monographs, newly published e-books, seminal works, and 150+ article compilations of the HBR Classics series.
Complimentary full access to IEEE eLearning Library. The IEEE eLearning Library includes topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT, Cyber Security, and much more.
JoVE is now providing their Science Education video content including Lab Manual free to use in STEM teaching through 30 June 2020 to support academic institutions affected by COVID-19.
Oxford University Press’s multi-functional online platform designed specifically for law textbooks now available for free access until the end of May 2020 for HKU staff and students.
The MIT Press is offering libraries complimentary access to its catalogue of eBooks on MIT Press Direct through the end of May 2020 to support faculty and students who are working and learning remotely. There are over 2,770 titles accessible via MIT Press Direct.
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.
This ‘all-in-one’ database brings together ProQuest’s most used databases to create a comprehensive, diverse and relevant multi-disciplinary research database. It covers diverse content types including journals, news, dissertations and working papers. Major subject areas: business, health and medical, social sciences, art and humanities, education, science and technology and religion.
Service Newspapers of World War Two – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Socialism on Film – COVID-19 free access Adam Matthew Digital is offering extended trial access to their digital archival collections due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
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.
