Databases

Launched with more than 200,000 items from over 500 organizations worldwide, the database delivers current, evidence‑informed resources essential for research, teaching, clinical education, fieldwork, skills‑based learning, and applied research across nursing and allied health disciplines such as exercise science, nutrition, physical and occupational therapy, radiology, speech‑language pathology, audiology, behavioural and mental health, and more.

The database features timely blogs for classroom discussion and current awareness, podcasts for bringing real-world perspectives and current issues into the classroom, high-quality instructional videos for demonstrations, case studies, and skills mastery, and reports and articles for delivering guidance, surveillance, outcomes, and applied evidence, etc.

The Global & International Studies Collection is an interdisciplinary resource that explores critical political, social, and historical issues from both historical and contemporary perspectives, offering over 3.9 million pages of primary and secondary materials including government documents, archival records, periodicals, news transcripts, and video footage alongside 670 periodicals and magazines, more than 260 peer-reviewed academic journals across disciplines such as sociology, economics, and political science, and 2,250 video titles featuring documentaries, interviews, and lectures that provide compelling cultural, political, and historical insights.

The collection is organized into curated thematic areas such as Aging in the Modern World, Border and Migration Studies Online, Colonial Legacies, Disability in the Modern World, Human Rights Studies Online, Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies Online, Revolution and Protest Online, Trade and Globalization Studies Online, and over twenty other focused collections. The collection is designed to support in-depth research by connecting past and present global challenges.

IET.tv is the online video platform of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), offering a wide range of multidisciplinary engineering and technology content. It serves as a crucial resource for academics, professionals, and students.

The platform features 8,500+ subtitled videos and 8,500+ videos with full transcripts. It covers key sectors, including Communications, IT, Manufacturing, Control and Automation, Power, Transport, Electronics, Management, and Healthcare Technology.

Content includes university seminars, unique teaching materials, expert interviews, and keynote presentations on advanced topics. It also provides professional development resources for continuing education, recordings from major IET and external events, as well as bite-sized news and demonstrations.

ProQuest Central Premium is a foundational, multidisciplinary resource offering extensive full-text content from journals, magazines, news, trade publications, reports, case studies, videos, ebooks, and primary sources. It supports teaching and research across disciplines such as business, psychology, sustainability, social sciences, education, and more. It also includes ProQuest Research Assistant, an AI-powered tool that helps users refine searches, analyze documents, evaluate relevance, and receive guidance on research topics and next steps.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers a truly international perspective on academic research, providing access to over six million records, including four million full-text documents. From North America and Europe to Asia and beyond, it delivers a comprehensive view of the global scholarly landscape.

Note: The Library has subscribed to the subset A: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (A&I) and subset B: The Sciences and Engineering Collection (Full text). The subset A: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (Full text) is currently under trial.

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is a resource offering a wide-ranging selection of contents in art, design, architecture, and fashion. It consolidates rare materials, leading magazine backfiles, key scholarly journals, documentary videos, and specialist indexes into a single platform. Key themes and topics include Architectural History, Art History, Arts Business/Marketing, Culture & Society, Fashion, Textiles & Dress, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, and Visual Arts. The database contains over 700 key publications and more than 11.5 million full-text items, with a time span from 1860 to the present.

中國學位論文全文資料庫（China Dissertations Database）收錄自1980年以來中國高等院校及科研院所的優秀博士與碩士學位論文，資源規模龐大，每年以超過45萬篇的速度持續更新，內容涵蓋基礎科學、理學、工業技術、人文科學、社會科學、醫藥衛生、農業科學、交通運輸、航空航天以及環境科學等學科領域。

中國學術期刊資料庫（China Online Journals，COJ）是國內收錄規模領先的綜合性學術期刊全文資料庫，其收錄工作始於1998年，目前已收錄期刊超過8800種，其中包括北京大學、中國科學技術資訊研究所、中國科學院文獻情報中心、南京大學以及中國社會科學院等權威機構歷年收錄的核心期刊3900餘種，具有高度的學術權威性。 該資料庫資源年更新量達300萬篇，內容全面覆蓋自然科學、工程技術、醫藥衛生、農業科學、哲學政法、社會科學、科教文藝等各個學科領域，是支持中國學術研究、知識傳播與教學參考的重要數位化資源平台。

中華醫學期刊全文資料庫是由中華醫學會雜誌社建立並維護的權威醫學數位資源平台。 該資料庫目前收錄了醫學期刊290餘種，累計全文文獻量超過110萬篇, 內容覆蓋臨床內外科、婦科、 兒科、腫瘤、影像、護理等多個領域。

新方志是萬方資料知識服務平台中的地方志文獻搜索平台, 共收錄超過68,700卷，不同於以記錄地方歷史和歷史地理為主的傳統中國方志, 新方志內容涵蓋了綜合經濟、地方史、地理及歷史人物、文化教育、政治、軍事外交、醫藥衛生、科學技術等諸多領域。

《當代中文報紙資料庫》是一套以中國當代報紙為核心的全文資料庫系統，全面收錄各級黨報、綜合新聞類報紙及業界專業報紙，從政治、經濟、文化、教育、民生等多角度展現當代中國的變遷與發展。

此資料庫集文獻檢索與報紙瀏覽於一體，在原版原式閱讀的基礎上提供深度檢索與應用功能。目前已收錄中文報紙近500種，最早回溯至1949年，包含約800萬版報紙版面與2億條新聞文獻。

內容涵蓋中央級報紙20餘種，如人民日報、環球時報、中國青年報、解放軍報、參考消息、科技日報、經濟日報等 ; 省級報紙50餘種，如北京日報、解放日報、廣州日報、深圳特區報、大眾日報等，以及行業報紙100餘種，如中國石化報、中國航空報、證券時報、中國經營報、中國醫藥報、中國體育報、中華讀書報等，為研究中國近現代社會、政策與文化提供了權威而豐富的資源。

Note: 試用範圍自2023至今之資料