Databases: Databases for Lingnan Affiliates

"The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 5,700 scholarly books, from over 125 publishers, sold as a subscription package to over 800 library subscribers. ACLS HEB is a collection curated by scholars for scholars; members of ACLS learned societies nominate books for inclusion, and Michigan Publishing licenses them and pays royalties to contributing publishers."--Provided by publisher.

It has a collection of about 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.

The database provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.

Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading international publisher of academic books and journals in economics, finance, business and management, law, environment, public and social policy. Their Elgronline content platform provides browsable and searchable access to Edward Elgar Publishing's ebooks online.

"iRead eBook華藝電子書收錄近3000家出版社, 逾80,000本繁體中文電子書"--Provided by publisher.

ProQuest Ebook Central was selected by your library to provide authoritative ebooks in a range of subjects from the world's top publishers. Use Ebook Central to quickly and easily find relevant ebooks and chapters, read online; search within the ebook; and highlight, take notes and bookmark pages in your online copy, stored on your bookshelf for you. You can also share your research with others, download ebooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device, and more.

"ProQuest One Business is a new solution designed to support the unique teaching and learning needs of business faculty and students. Developed in collaboration with faculty, students and business librarians, ProQuest One Business delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface that helps students build the research skills they'll need for success in their courses and careers."--Provided by publisher.

這是超星数字图书馆设立的多种文献综合搜索平台. 它可以对书籍, 报纸, 期刊, 学位论文, 会议论文, 专利, 标准, 视频等同时进行检索, 对检索结果提供相关几页的试读.

Academic Search Premier includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of over 5,500 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.

In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 8,000 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

The Learner Collection is a collection of journals aims to create an intellectual frame of reference and to support an interdisciplinary conversation on the nature and future of learning.

Provides citations and abstracts to a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed International Nursing Index with significant material from Index to Dental Literature. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.

From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of the most utilized subjects and topics. The database includes thousands of full-text titles, with a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, important and general interest magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. This combination of general reference volume and scope makes it one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. The subject coverage includes multidisciplinary.

"實現中, 外文期刊整合檢索. 其中, 中文學術期刊8490餘種, 含北大核心期刊1970餘種, 網絡首發期刊2340餘種, 最早回溯至1915年, 共計5920餘萬篇全文文獻; 外文學術期刊包括來自近80個國家及地區900餘家出版社的期刊7.5万餘種, 覆蓋JCR期刊的96%, Scopus期刊的90%, 最早回溯至19世紀, 共計1.2億餘篇外文題錄, 可鏈接全文."--Provided by publisher.

"Arts & Humanities Citation Index contains over 1,800 journals across 28 arts & humanities disciplines. More than 4.9 million records and 33.4 million cited references date back from 1975 to present. Our expert in-house editors use a single set of 28 criteria throughout the journal selection and curation process. Divided into 24 ‘quality’ criteria and four ‘impact’ criteria, our editors select the most influential journals in their respective fields (using citation activity as the primary indicator of impact) for the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Compared to the clinical, natural and social sciences, the arts & humanities may differ significantly regarding the type of content that is considered to be of scholarly importance, norms for reviewing content, and citation behaviour. The Web of Science™ editors give these differences due consideration when reviewing journals in these subjects for Arts & Humanities Citation Index."--Provided by publisher.

Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs in English and Chinese.
(No. of concurrent users = 5)

This historical newspaper provides searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post from 1903 to 2001. It includes South China Morning Post & the Hongkong Telegraph (1945-1946), South China Morning Post (1903-1941), South China Morning Post (1946-), South China Sunday Morning Post (1985-2000), South China Sunday Post (1950-1950), South China Sunday Post-Herald (1950-1972), Sunday Morning Post (2000-) and Sunday Post - Herald (1972-1974). The subject covers historical local, regional and national news as well as Multidisciplinary. Users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles.
(1-year coverage will be added annually)

Contains an archive of full text articles from Chinese and English newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Macau. News sources from USA and other countries are also available.

Theses and Dissertations from Lingnan University / Lingnan College from 1993. Access restrictions applied to some contents.

The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT — Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.--Provided by publisher.

Index to over 100 MCB University Press journals on marketing, human resource management, general management, economics, library & information management and engineering.

Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London: 1793-1980. With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.--Provided by publisher.

“The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad. This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.”--Provided by publisher.

This database is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (2003); Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (2003/4); The Visible Empire (2004/5); Religion and Empire (2005/6); and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (2006/7). The images will be sourced from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia. The main document types in the resource are exploration journals and logs, letter books and correspondence, periodicals, official government papers, missionary papers, travel writing, slave papers, memoirs, fiction, children’s adventure stories, traditional; folk tales, exhibition catalogues and guides, maps and. marketing posters.

Foreign Office Files for China contains six parts making available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980: 1919-1929 : Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International; 1930-1937 : The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis; 1938-1948 : Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory; 1949-1956 : The Communist revolution; 1957-1966 : The Great Leap Forward; 1967-1980 : The Cultural Revolution. It includes the following materials: British diplomatic dispatches, originating in both London and China; correspondence, both government and private; newspaper cuttings/transcriptions and translations of press reports; minutes of meetings; political, economic and military analyses; statistical tables; biographies of prominent figures; reports of visits, investigations etc.; published booklets and leaflets, posters, propaganda etc.; annual reports, detailing events in a territory during the previous year and maps.

"Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest."--Provided by publisher.

Explore the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, through the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.--Provided by publisher.

"The First World War portal makes available invaluable primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules. From personal collections and rare printed material to military files, artwork and audio-visual files, content highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict that shook the world."--Provided by publisher.

Virginia Company Archives provides a comprehensive record of the history of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. Centred upon the archives of the Ferrar family who played a significant role in the Company's administration, this resource documents the founding and economic development of the Virginia colony, relations between colonists and indigenous peoples, and early trade between Britain and America. It is also a crucial source for London's economic history and the religious and social history of early modern England, with further content documenting the Ferrars' continued interest in the European colonisation of North America in the years after 1624.

"We partner with organizations and knowledge experts from around the globe who contribute to our content, including more than a hundred Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, historians, professors, and noted leaders from many fields of study. Many articles include an Article Contributors section, which lists those experts who have aided in article development and their notable credentials. Britannica also incorporates many types of resources, so that a single consolidated search can yield thorough research. Begin with our base of over 100,000 articles and historical Britannica Year in Review supplemental articles, plus an expansive collection of multimedia including images, videos, audio, interactives, and infographics. Reference dictionary definitions from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, journal and periodical content provided by EBSCO, hand-picked Web’s Best Sites links, and primary sources & e-books from multiple sources including the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School."--Provided by publisher.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words-past and present from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED focuses on present-day meanings but also find the history of individual words, and of the language-traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Handbooks Online is a fully cross-searchable resource providing the complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in business and management, economics, literature, philosophy, political science and Religion. Extensive links make the online Handbooks easy to navigate making these valuable reference resources more easily discoverable, accessible and searchable. It is a complete text of over 70 Oxford Handbooks and comprises over 2,000 essays within 4 subject modules.