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Includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

Offers access to 14,200 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.

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.

is a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies. The database provides current coverage of over 1,800 journals and archival coverage of several thousand additional titles.

is the American Geological Institute's database of references and selected abstracts covering the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. It corresponds to the print publications: Bibliography of North American geology (including its earlier titles); Bibliography and index of geology exclusive of North America ; Geophysical abstracts (Washington, D.C.); and: Bibliography and index of geology.

Oceanic Abstracts focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

combines databases on all facets of international and African water research. Included in the aggregation are six of the world's major water resource databases: WATERLIT, The Freshwater Biological Association Catalogue (FBA), The International Water Management Institute Database (IWMI), AQUAREF, AQUIRE, and Delft Hydro Database.

This site provides open access to more than 700 full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.

Contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of Elsevier articles in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, and health sciences.

Contains full text of subscribed Springer electronic journals.

Access to over 300 scientific, technical, medical, and professional Wiley journals.

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) standards
Covering ASCE/SEI 7: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE 7-22, ASCE 7-16, ASCE 7-10)

ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) standards and guidelines

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) standards

ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards

British Standards, plus BS equivalent ISO Standards and BS equivalent EN Standards

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standards

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards

RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) standards

NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) codes, standards, recommended practices and guides

China national knowledge infrastructure. HKU Libraries' subscription covers 國家標準 and 行業標準 only.