Avery index to architectural periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.
RIBA Library online catalogue is a catalog of books, journals, drawings, photographs, slides, manuscripts, audio-visual and other material in the British Architectural Library, and an index to approximately 300 architectural periodicals. It includes a biographical database of British architects.
The Hong Kong Heritage Society archives chiefly consist of administrative records, correspondences and writings covering the Society's activities from its establishment in 1977 to its closure in 1984. Records include meeting agendas and minutes, letters, newsletters, press-cuttings (available in hard copy only) and documents showing the Society's involvement in conservation campaigns relating to heritage buildings such as Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Station (1975-1978), Victoria Barracks (1977-1978), Tsim Sha Tsui Hill (1977-1979), Murray House (1981) and Hong Kong Club (1977-1981). All records except press cuttings have been digitized and are available online.
World heritage sites: Africa made up of 20 sub-collections and more than 57,000 objects ... The collection includes photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveler's accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research.
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Academic Search Ultimate offers a collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals in disciplines ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy, mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.
Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index, covering the period 1929-1984.
International bibliography of art is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
JSTOR provides full-text online access to electronic archive of scholarly journal literature, with an emphasis on the retrospective conversion of selected journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. The site also provides access to selected ebooks.
Taylor & Francis online is a digital platform offering access to thousands of academic journals, e-books, and reference works in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences disciplines.
Web of Science 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.
中國學術期刊全文數據庫 This databases contains more than 10,000 Chinese journals with full text. They are categorized into 10 subsets.
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Google Scholar is available to search across worldwide publisher’s webpage, databases, and resources. However, the online resources in Google scholar may not come with full text. Follow the below steps to configure Google Scholar to HKUL:
► Step 1. Go to the settings page of Google Scholar
► Step 2. Click on Library links
► Step 3. Enter "HKU" into the search box
► Step 4. Choose "The University of Hong Kong: View It@HKUL"
► Step 5. Save the settings

► Step 6. When you search in Google Scholar, you will see the link View It@HKUL against each record. Click on this link to check for full text availability through HKU Libraries.