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Academic Search Premier Help Guide
Note: Please access via EBSCOhost and choose appropriate databases within the platform. 
Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.
Apabi e-book (方正中文電子書)
Apabi e-Book is an online platform providing access to Chinese e-Books published in Mainland China.
Artstor Digital Library Help Guide
Artstor provides more than one million images contributed from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.
Asia Art Archive
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.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
A wide range of studies, statistical reports, working papers, books, briefs, and awareness-raising materials published by the ADB are available for digital download from the ADB Publications pages.
BioMedCentral
BioMedCentral (BMC) has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.
Britannica Academic Help Guide
Britannica Academic delivers authoritative, balanced, and trustworthy information in all knowledge areas. 

 
Cambridge Core Help Guide
Cambridge Core is the new academic online platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content, consisting of journals, books and a number of additional online products and collections. 
 
Cambridge Dictionary Online
Cambridge Dictionary Online is a popular dictionary site for learners of English in the world.
China Academic Journals Full-text Database (中國期刊全文數據庫)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It offers access to thousands of full-text journals published in the Mainland dating back to 1994. 
China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database (中國博士學位論文全文數據庫)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It offers access to full-text doctoral dissertations from hundreds of academic institutions in the Mainland dating back to 1984. 
China Masters' Theses Full-text Database (中國優秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It offers access to full-text masters' theses from hundreds of academic institutions in the Mainland dating back to 1984. 
Chinamaxx (超星數字圖書館) Help Guide
Chinamaxx houses the world’s largest and most complete database on Chinese publications. It has a collection of 700,000 titles of Chinese literature. The chunk proportion of the holdings are books published since 1949 and a few are from earlier years. Classified using the CLC (Chinese Library Classification) system, it includes 22 main classes covering all academic disciplines. This rich and scholarly content lays emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities to attend interests on China study, enhance research project and facilitate paper writing.
Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect (粵語審音配詞字庫)
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.
CINAHL Complete Help Guide
CINAHL Complete contains full text for many of the most used journals found in the CINAHL index.

With CINAHL Complete, users can access a comprehensive scope of content covering over 50 nursing specialties as well as allied health subjects including speech and language pathology, nutrition, physical therapy and much more.
Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It is an online collection of classics of Chinese literature and culture, from ancient China through the Qing Dynasty.
Digital Commons Network™
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.
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. 
Directory of Open Access Journals
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. 
Early Journal Content
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.
Ebook Central Help Guide
It is a ProQuest ebook platform with eBooks covering all academic disciplines.
eBooks on EBSCOhost Help Guide
EBSCO eBooks Academic Collection includes more than 205,000 e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. 
Electronic Theses Online Service

Search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.


eLibrary
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 records, covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Books and Authors
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It covers tens of thousands of book titles and authors including award winners and the librarian's favourite lists. 
Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks platform provides a wide selection of mulidiscipinary e-books.
Gale in Context: Biography
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It offers reference content in the area of the environment, energy and natural resources. The database combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, and case studies into a web-like experience. 
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
GreenFILE Help Guide
GreenFILE is a research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 
HKInChiP (香港中文期刊論文索引)
Provides index to 300 Chinese and bilingual periodical titles published in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Literature Database (香港文學資料庫)
Hong Kong Literature Database is the first database on Hong Kong literature. As at June 2020, the database consists of nearly 588,000 records, including more that 200 Hong Kong journals and literary supplement of 20 Hong Kong early newspapers. 

The database aims to support the teaching and research of Hong Kong literature and promoting its development.
Hong Kong Public Libraries E-books (香港公共圖書館電子書)
Note: For Card holders of the Hong Kong Public Libraries Only

Hong Kong TV and Film Publication Database (中港電視。電影刊物資料庫)
The "Hong Kong TV and Film Publication Database" mainly collects TV and film publications published in Hong Kong during the British colonial period, including:

TVB Weekly (1967-1997) - 1,542 issues
TV brochures, Special issues, Complimentary issues (1977-1997) - 75 publications
Movie pamphlets (1946-1979) - 219 publications
HyRead eBook (HyRead中文電子書) Help Guide
HyRead is a Chinese multidisciplinary eBook platform.
iRead eBooks (華藝電子書) Help Guide
iRead is an eBooks platform providing access to Traditional-Chinese e-books.
 
JSTOR Early Journal Content
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.
JSTOR Register & Read
A registered individual account enables researchers to access and read participating publisher articles online for free. 
Kiss Holiday
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
"Kiss Holiday" is an interactive multimedia Chinese database which aims to introduce to children the history and underlying meaning of 13 major festivals in a lively manner through animated stories, games and handicrafts, thus enabling them to understand festive customs from around the world. 
Library & Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA is a research database for library and information science studies. It provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, research reports.
LibreTexts
It provides access to OER resources and a platform for faculty to curate and compile resources. LibreTexts is based at University of California, Davis. 
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MAS Ultra- School Edition provides full text for top high-school magazines. 

It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, an image collection of more than 1.9 million photos, maps, flags and color PDFs, plus expanded full-text backfiles for key magazines.
Medicinal Plant Images Database
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.
Military & Government Collection
Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.
National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan (臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統)
This is a system that has consistently collected theses and dissertations of colleges and universities in Taiwan from 1956 to the present, covering the disciplines of the sciences, engineering, agriculture, medicine, the humanities and social sciences and continues to promote the concept of free access to unauthorized materials.
Naxos Music Library (拿索斯線上音樂圖書館)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It is a highly resourceful online music database which includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues.
Naxos Music Library Jazz (拿索斯線上爵士音樂圖書館)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
It is one of the most comprehensive online libraries on jazz music around the globe, which offers a large selection of classic and contemporary jazz music albums released by the world’s famous jazz labels as well as the works by jazz artists and composers through different ages. 
Naxos Video Library (拿索斯線上影音圖書館)
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Newtonkids Digital Museum
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
OAPEN
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. 
OmniFile Full Text Mega
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition provides a wide range of research resources. It contains full text of articles from over 3,100 publications dating back to 1994. It also contains abstracts and indexing from nearly 5,100 publications as far back as 1982. The subjects covered include applied sciences, art, education, humanities, law, social sciences, technology, etc.
Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS)
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. 
Open Access Library (OALib)
OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 5,691,949 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. 
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
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.
Open Book Publishers
It is an open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It promotes open access for full academic monographs, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Science. All OBP books are peer-reviewed.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.
OpenStax
It is a nonprofit organization based out of Rice University and is one of the leading providers of OER textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are available as free downloads in PDF, Web, and EPUB formats. The textbooks are peer-reviewed, and openly licensed.
Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic, Oxford University Press (OUP)'s platform for research, offers a single point of entry for access to scholarly and academic books and journals. 
Primary Search
Designed for elementary school libraries, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks.

 
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
PsycBOOKS
PsycBook's collection provides full-text access to American Psychological Association's latest peer-reviewed books, as well as classic and historical works dating back to the 1600s.
S.L. Wong's A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton (粵音韻彙)
Web site from the Institute of Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong that presents audio files (.wav) depicting pronunciations of Chinese characters in the Cantonese dialect. Users can enter Chinese character for Cantonese pronunciation or vice versa.
SAGE International Journals Help Guide
has a portfolio that includes more than 1,100 journals, 1,100,000+ articles, 937,000+ articles with Deep Backfiles, and 500+ societies.
Scholastic GO!
Note: Access via Hong Kong Public Libraries
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.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology research database. It provides full-text, peer-reviewed sociology journals covering many studies including gender studies, criminal justics, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work.
South China Morning Post (SCMP)
The South China Morning Post is a leading news media company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century with global impact. 
SpringerOpen
SpringerOpen, launched in June 2010, includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.
SuperbookCity (超閱網)
SuperbookCity is en eBook platform providing multi-disciplinary digitized books. 
Taylor and Francis EBooks Help Guide
Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) is a complimentary research database for teachers, providing indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from the 3rd to 19th centuries.
Wiley Online Library Help Guide
Wiley Online Library is an extenstive collection of online multidispciplinary journals, books, and reserach resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences.  
WisersOne Help Guide
A news information database provides access to newspapers, magazine, journals and newswires published in China; Hong Kong; Macau; Taiwan and selected Asia Pacific Regions.
World Bank eLibrary
The World Bank eLibrary is dedicated to offering researchers quick and easy access to the complete collection of World Bank formal publications and journals since the 1990s, as well as reports, working papers, and top data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators.
World Scientific
World Scientific is an eBook platform developed by World Scientific Publishing Group. 
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