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Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s Research Collections comprises material gathered from focused research projects undertaken by AAA in partnership with artists, art professionals, and researchers. It is a growing repository of primary source material, photographic documentation, video recordings, ephemera, and more. Since 2010, AAA has been digitising these valuable resources and making them accessible for users worldwide.

The Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics (AJGG) is the official joint publication of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society and Hong Kong Association of Gerontology. The AJGG publishes peer-reviewed English and Chinese articles representing the full range of medical, social, and rehabilitation sciences related to older people. 

Cambridge Dictionary Online is a popular dictionary site for learners of English in the world.

It offers access to full-text doctoral dissertations from hundreds of academic institutions in the Mainland dating back to 1984. 

The main objective of the database is to provide a useful online tool to assist the teaching and learning of the Chinese characters. 

This Chinese character database covers a total of 13060 character entries, comprising the entire set of Big-5 chinese characters (5401 Level 1 and 7652 Level 2 Hanzi) as well as 7 additional ETen Hanzi.

Through the joint collaboration by the School of Chinese Medicine and University Library, Chinese Medicine Specimen Database is established to help promoting people's awareness of the variety, authenticity, and effective use of Chinese Medicines. 

Estimates the population prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios from an observed sample.

ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.

The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) is the most well used outcome measure in occupational therapy in the world. The COPM is a client-centred outcome measure for individuals to identify and prioritize everyday issues that restrict their participation in everyday living. 

This measure focuses on occupational performance in all areas of life, including self-care, leisure and productivity. 

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. 

JSTOR’s Early Journal Content (EJC) makes articles from hundreds of journals freely available to the public on the JSTOR platform. This includes journal content published prior to the last 95 years in the United States, or prior to the last 143 years if initially published internationally.

Calculate the parameters of diagnostic test, prospective study, case-control study, and randomized control trial for evidence-based medicine.

eLibrary is a collection of periodicals and digital media contents designed to support a wide range of users, including secondary and university students as well as professional educators.

In this video from the AGA, Dr. Joanne A. P. Wilson explains what you can expect before, during and after this procedure.

Elizabeth Heller Murrary, M.S., CFY-SLP, doctoral student in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Sargent College performs a nasal endoscopy on Assistant Professor Cara Stepp. They physiology and the vocal mechanism is reviewed. 

A medical video animation descirbes the endoscopy procedure.
 

This video shows an upper GI (gastrointestinal) endoscopy procedure to diagnose helicobacter pylori, a bacterium (bacteria) that causes a stomach (gastric) ulcer. The animation also includes the treatment of a bleeding ulcer using endoscopic tools.

"Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy" (VJGIEN) from Elsevier provides medical professionals and students with video demonstrations of endoscopic findings, procedural footage, case studies etc.

A collection of educational videos about Endoscopy and Gastroenterology, produced by World Gastroenterology Institute (WGI). 

FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet.

It is a biographical database on several hundred thousand people in a broad range of subject areas. It provides a wealth of information on science, multicultural studies, business, politics, government, history, entertainment, sports, arts and literature.

It covers today's hottest social issues and provides access to viewpoints, topic overviews, statistics, primary source documents, links to websites as well as full-text articles of magazines and newspapers.

The Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in Government Departments is developed by the Official Languages Division of the Civil Service Bureau.

With some 115 000 terms in 23 categories, each covering a specific subject, the glossary serves as a general reference to facilitate translation and drafting.

Provides index to 300 Chinese and bilingual periodical titles published in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Education Image Database is jointly developed by the Hong Kong Museum of Education (HKME) and The Education University of Hong Kong Library (EdUHK Library).

Items included in this Database originate from the collections of The Education University of Hong Kong, the former Teacher Training Colleges (The Northcote College of Education, Rural Training College, Grantham College of Education, Sir Robert Black College of Education, Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College and Institute of Language in Education) as well as from donations and private sources.

Hong Kong Medical Journal (HKMJ) is a bimonthly joint publication of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (HKAM) and the Hong Kong Medical Association (HKMA). HKMJ is published by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press.

The HKMJ publishes original research papers, review articles, medical practice papers, case reports, editorials, commentaries, and letters to the Editor. Topics of interest include all subjects that relate to clinical practice and research in all branches of medicine.

HOTheory is a database that contains theories, models, frames of reference, and frameworks that are developed specifically by occupational therapists or for use in occupational therapy. This database is designed to help occupational therapy practitioners and students to find theoretical knowledge to inform their practice and learning.

Journal of Public Health is an international journal for public health research and practice.

A registered individual account enables researchers to access and read participating publisher articles online for free. 

It provides access to OER resources and a platform for faculty to curate and compile resources. LibreTexts is based at University of California, Davis. 

This medical dictionary displays information that may be available from any of the more than 40,000 publicly available dictionaries, encyclopedias, research articles and books.

The Database was established by the collaborative effort between the School od Chinese Medicine and the University Library with the aim of promoting popularization and resource sharing in Chinese medicine. More than one thousand medicinal plants were systematicall consolidated and summarized in the form of plant images and detailed descriptions in a bilingual environment.

Database to search for drugs information.

It is a highly resourceful online music database which includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues.

It is the world's leading video library on performing arts, which offers an extensive streaming of full-length videos from the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and prestigious artists.

It is an online collection of video materials from Taiwan for students and people who are interested to learn more about our Earth from various aspects, including animals, plants, ecology protection, weather and climate, natural landscapes, and earth science, etc.

OMICS International is an Open Access publisher. It owns and operates 700+ peer-reviewed clinical, medical, life sciences, engineering, and managment journals. 

ODLIS is designed as a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. 

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,877,305 theses and dissertations.

The Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.

A search engine for activity ideas using simple items you can find in every household, out of the need to support parents find daily activities they can do to help develop and promote their children's developmental skills. 

It is a free database of over 51,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.

PsycCRITIQUES contains 43,056 full-text reviews of books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective.

(PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). 

Scholastic GO! is an English e-database of encyclopedias. It covers a wide range of subjects including arts, social sciences, geography, history, philosophy, religion, sports and entertainment, science and technology, etc.

It covers the subjects of biomechanics, pharmacology, sports training, kinesiology, sports science, nutrition, occupational health and therapy, physical fitness, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, sports psychology, coaching and education and sports medicine.

The Trip search system has a collection of high quality of secondary evidence ranging from systematic reviews and clinical guidelines to evidence-based synopses and clinical Q&As.​

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from the 3rd to 19th centuries.