Cambridge Core serves as the primary online platform for academic books and journals from Cambridge University Press, offering access to over 1.8 million journal articles and 46,000+ books. The platform hosts content across 37 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields.
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The site includes databases available from EBSCOhost, such as Academic Search premier, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, Business Source Complete, CIHAHL Plus, Communication and Mass Media Complete, MAS Ultra-School Edition, Primary search, ERIC, Serials directory, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and EBSCO Animals.
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The database provides current, media-rich information specifically structured for student research. It offers targeted databases for Biography, Global Issues, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, Environmental Studies, and World History
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Gale Primary Sources provides full-text access to digitized historical collections gathered from major archives, libraries, and private collections globally. Its archives cover a wide spectrum of subjects across the humanities and social sciences—including history, literature, gender studies, politics, and area studies—by delivering rare materials in formats such as monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs.
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JSTOR provides access to a massive digital archive of scholarly content curated across more than 75 disciplines. Its collections encompass a wide range of academic subjects including the arts, humanities, social sciences, and life sciences, delivering materials in formats such as academic journal articles, books, images, and primary source documents.
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Bibliographies of topics in the classics, criminology, Islamic studies and social work. With introductions to each topic area, and including guides to introductory works, textbooks, guidebooks, journals, reference works et cetera, and links to useful websites.
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A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged and Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work and Social Policy, and Sociology.
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A web database for research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
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Contains an alphabetical list of Springer electronic journals subscribed by the University of Hong Kong. Abstracts and full-text of the journal articles are available. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics and astronomy, engineering and economics.
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The Web of Science is a multidisciplinary citation database that indexes over 99 million records across 254 subject areas spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The collection provides cover-to-cover indexing for more than 22,000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as extensive coverage of conference proceedings and book content, connecting over 2.5 billion cited references.
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A database of full-text newspaper clippings with search capabilities. Hong Kong newspapers cover 1998 onwards. China, Taiwan and Macau's newspapers cover from 2000.
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[Expires on 31 August 2026]
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Consensus is an AI search engine for scientific and academic research. It searches over 200 million academic papers and uses language models to help students and researchers find, understand, and synthesize the literature faster. For more details, see the Consensus for Universities Overview https://consensus.app/home/blog/getting-started-with-consensus-university-access/
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Oxford University Press is at the forefront of scholarly music publishing in a wide range of fields and disciplines. OSO's Music list represents outstanding work across this diversity of music scholarship, covering significant titles in musicology and music history, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Contributions of bright young academics and eminent scholars, classic works and major recent titles, award-winners and fundamental texts, all stand together in this essential collection.
Part I comprises approximately 500,000 pages of acts, ordinances, and proclamations that were enacted between 1900 and 1989 from across the British Empire. This period ushered in a new era of further industrialization and politicization of colonial territories and saw the decolonization of many British dominions and territories. During the twentieth century laws were passed on all aspects of colonial life and business, including those that attempted to control immigration, plan for post-independence economic growth, introduce greater control over the activities and lands of indigenous peoples, reaffirm the abolition of slavery, regulate working conditions and unions, and enfranchise greater swathes of the population, including women.
[Expires on 12-Sept-2026]
《瀚堂近代報刊數據庫》匯集數百種清末至民初的報紙和刊物，涵蓋《遐邇貫珍》、《順天時報》、《大公報》與《益世報》，以及《申報》等著名報刊。全庫收錄逾3,000萬筆記錄及25,000種報刊資料，可使讀者貼近和發現一個更加真實的近代中國，為研究近代中國歷史、社會、文化與思想發展提供豐富的一手文獻資源。
