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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Gale Databases offer a diverse range of specialized databases covering historical, social, political, literary, and cultural topics. These include collections of primary source documents, newspapers, periodicals, legal acts, government documents, and reference materials.
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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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Oxford Bibliographies is a scholarly reference database offering expertly curated bibliographic articles and recommendations on thousands of topics across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The resource provides annotated bibliographies, subject overviews, and citations to the most relevant books, articles, and resource
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Oxford Handbooks Online is a scholarly database that provides peer-reviewed, in-depth review articles and essays across a wide range of academic fields, published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes handbooks, articles, and chapters covering subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
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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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ScienceDirect by Elsevier is an online platform offering access to over 3,000 peer-reviewed journals and millions of full-text articles across various scientific disciplines, including highly cited titles like The Lancet and Cell. It provides advanced access to early-release articles, content curated for specific sectors, and ensures rigorous peer-review standards for trusted research.
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Scopus is a large abstract and citation database that provides comprehensive coverage of academic journals, preprints, books, and conference proceedings, including over 25.2 million open access documents. It features more than 100 million records, with information from over 30,200 serial titles, 404,000+ books, and 2.6 million preprints, supporting researchers in exploring research topics and gaining insights through AI-enhanced tools.
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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 30-Sept-2026]
CathayPlay is a curated streaming platform focused on Chinese-language and East Asian independent cinema. The collection supports teaching and research across areas including Chinese and Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Documentary Studies, and Contemporary East Asia.
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.
Yomidas is a digital archive covering the entire history of newspaper publishing in Japan. The archive's sections reflect the strengths of the various features. The Meiji, Taisho & Showa Eras section contains high-quality scans of the articles as they appeared during these periods. The Heisei & Reiwa Eras section provides articles in a convenient text view, as well as a clipping view of the original article. Articles dated from January 2023 onward will be linked to the entire one-page image of the search results, in addition to a clipping view of the original articles. Japan News catalogs articles which appeared in our English publication. Contemporary Who's Who allows searching of individuals to retrieve their biological data as well as pertinent articles. And finally, regional articles and pages from the Showa era can be found in the optional Regional Sections (Showa Era) feature. Search Print Editionsection contains one-page images of the newspaper. Articles dated from January 2023 onward will be linked to these pages. You can see at a glance the size of an article on the entire page and grasp the impact it has had on society.
Yomidas stands out as Japan's premiere online newspaper archive for a variety of reasons. Our editors have spent countless hours cataloguing articles, writing headlines for articles which originally had none, and tagging articles with keywords for easy retrieval of pertinent stories. In cases where language usage has changed, we've tagged articles with the modern readings and characters in addition to the original usages, all to assist you in finding the articles you want.
[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。
