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Databases -- Brief Guide |
| ABI/INFORM (1971+) via ProQuest |
ABI/INFORM (1971+) via ProQuest is an index to articles selected from more than 1,000 publications on business management and administration. Subject coverage includes advertising, accounting, computers, economics, finance, marketing, human resources and operations, taxation together with related technical topics such as engineering and information systems.
| Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) |
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Academic Search Premier contains full text articles from more than 1,200 periodicals covering a wide range of topics -- business, education, social sciences, health, science and technology. Indexing and abstracts are provided for about 3,200 magazines and journals. This is a good place to look for periodical articles on almost any topic.
The following databases could also be accessed.
| American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conferences (1996+) |
Founded in 1893, the American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. It accomplishes this mission by promoting excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice; exercising worldwide leadership; fostering the technological education of society; and providing quality products and services to members. The conference proceedings publishes many research papers addressing the issues described above and in the process contributes towards quality engineering education.
| ASM Alloy Center Online (current) |
The ASM Alloy Center enables you to search in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.
| ASM Handbook Online (current) |
It features the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions.
| Assessment Resource Centre |
Description: The Assessment Resource Centre (ARC) is an inter-institutuional collaborative project involving the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong, which aims at supporting on-going quality assurance and improvement of assessment. The establishment of the ARC provides both print-based and on-line support to all those involved in higher education and to facilitate sharing amongst worldwide teachers.
| AccessScience (current) |
AccessScience is the online version of the 8th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It contains 7,100 articles, 115,000 definitions and biographies of more than 1,200 key scientists.
| Association for information systems electronic library (AISeL) |
Association for Information System Electronic Library (AISeL) is an electronic repository for the ICIS, AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS, BLED, ACIS, MCIS and MWAIS conference proceedings.
| ACI Manual of Concrete Practice Online (2002) |
The Online MCP contains all of the ACI documents you need to answer your questions about code requirements, specifications, tolerances, concrete proportions, construction methods, evaluations of test results, and many more topics. It includes over 4600 pages and 180 of the most used documents on concrete technology.
Topics Include:
Materials and Properties Construction Practices, Inspection, and Pavements Use of Concrete Buildings, Bridges and Special Structures Precast Concrete, Masonry, and Special Processes
| ACM Digital Library (individual title varies) |
ACM Digital Library offers abstracts or articles of nearly all the journals and proceedings published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM Digital Library includes:
| Active Library on Corrosion (1998) |
The Active Library on Corrosion contains information about materials selection, materials performance, corrosion diagnosis, corrosion prevention, corrosion phenomena and examples of corrosion case histories.
| All England Law Reports (1936+) |
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All England Law Reports (1936+) provides fulltext, cases heard by the House of Lords, the Privy Council, both divisions of the Court of Appeal and all divisions of the High Court. Cross-references are given to other major legal works, including Halsbury's Laws, Halsbury's Statutes and Statutory Instruments and The Digest. It also includes decisions of the European Courts where appropriate. It is updated weekly.
The print version is available at the Reference Collection of the Library with Call No. KD288.A64.
| All England law reports reprint (1558-1935) |
| All England reprint extension (1861-1935) |
| Approval Guide (Latest Edition) |
A Guide to Equipment, materials and services approved by FM Approvals for Property Conservation.
| Art Full Text on Wilson Web (Sept 1984+) |
Art Full Text on Wilson Web is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from various periodicals. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. While abstracting coverage begins with January 1994, full-text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997.
Subjects coverage: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
| Asia-Pacific Directory (Current) |
The Asia/Pacific Directory database is derived from general company, industry, and product databases from the Asia/Pacific region. Currently it includes the following directories:
China Business Directory (JC=CBD)
| ASHRAE-TransText (1992) |
There are 2 databases in the disc :
1. ASHRAE Abstracts : contains information about ASHRAE
Technical papers from 1980 +.
2. ASHRAE Transactions : contains FULL-TEXT information
about technical and symposium papers presented at ASHRAE's Annual Meeting
of 1992.
| Auerbach ITKnowledgebase (individual titles varies) |
It provides access to authoritative IT information from a variety of sources including trade and business journals.
| Bankscope |
BankScope is a comprehensive, global database containing information on over 25,000 public and private banks. Each bank report contains detailed consolidated and/or unconsolidated balance sheet and income statement with up to 8 years information. Bankscope also provides ratings, rating reports (e.g., Fitch, Moody's, S&P Ratings, Capital Intelligence Ratings and Reports), country risk ratings and reports (e.g., , EIU Country Risk Ratings and Reports, EIU Country Finance Reports), news and detailed ownership information.
| BCIS Online (Building Cost Information Service Online) (current) |
BCIS Online provides access to cost information for a wide range of commercial, industrial, residential and public sector buildings.
| BioMedNet |
BioMedNet is an Internet resource for biological and medical researchers. It contains a library of full-text journals, a collection of searchable biological databases and much more.
| Blackwell Reference Online (Latest Edition) |
Blackwell Reference Online provides access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship across the humanities and social sciences including anthropology, art, classics, communication, media studies, cultural studies, economics, gender studies, geography, history, law, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, ethnicity Studies, religion and sociology.
| British Standards Online (latest edition) |
It provides access to Standards published by BSI.
| BUSINESS PERIODICALS ONDISC (1988+) |
Provides complete scanned images of more than 800 academic management, marketing and general business journals.
Subject coverage:
| Accounting & auditing | Management (general) |
| Banking | Management science |
| Computers & information science | Manufacturing |
| Economic condition & sales | Marketing, advertising |
| Economic theory | New product developent |
| Engineering benefits | Personnel & employee |
| Finance & investments & government | Public administration |
| Health care industry | Real estate |
| Human resource management | Service industries |
| Insurance | Social policy |
| International trends | Taxation |
| Labour relations | Telecommunications |
| Law & legislation | Transportation |
| Britannica Online (Current) |
It covers the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. It contains more than 72,000 articles, 75,000 definitions, 10,000 illustrations including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites is also included.
| Business Source Complete |
It provides full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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The following databases could also be accessed.
| Business-Stat Online |
A service provided by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, this database contains various trade statistics compiled by the Census and Statistics Department, HKSAR Government, including external trade figures, exports and imports with other regions of the world, etc.
| CAJ Full-text Database 中國期刊全文數據庫 |
中國期刊網包含全文數據庫及題錄數據庫兩個數據庫。全文數據庫收錄了5,000多種期刊；題錄數據庫則輯錄了中國公開出版的6,600種期刊的文章題錄。
內容:
1. 理工A專輯 - 數學、力學、物理學、天文學、生物學、氣候學、地理學、海洋學及大學 學報(自然科學版)
2. 理工B專輯 - 化學、化學工業、礦物學、冶金學、金屬學、石油、天然氣、煤、輕工業、材料學及環境學
3. 理工C專輯 - 機械學、儀表工業、計量學、電子工業、動力學、建築、交通運輸、武器、航空、航天、原子能技術及工科大學學報
4. 農業專輯 - 農業、林業、畜牧獸醫、漁業、水產、植物保護、園藝、水利、生態學、農業機械及生物學
5. 醫藥衛生專輯 - 醫學、藥學、衛生、保健及生物醫學
6. 文史哲專輯 - 哲學、文化、歷史、考古學、音樂、藝術、體育、美術、民俗、語言、文字及新聞學
7. 經濟政治與法律專輯 - 經濟學、商業貿易、金融、保險、政治、外交、軍事及法律
8. 教育與社會科學綜合專輯 - 教育、社會學、心理學、民族學、宗教、人口、人才及大學學報(哲社版)
9. 電子技術及信息科學專輯 - 電子學、無線電、激光、半導體、電腦、網絡、自動化、郵政通訊、傳媒、新聞資訊、圖書資訊及檔案管理
| China Monthly Statistics Online (current) |
It encompasses a wealth of information from China. It covers national economy, agriculture, industry, transportation, telecommunication, domestic trade, foreign trade, Price indices, household survey, international tourism, exchange rate, stocks and bonds, energy production and consumption, banking, employment, and foreign capital.
| CEIC China Database |
CEIC China Database covers extensively over 134,000 data series. Data sources include 40 major government statistical agencies; over 40 prime industrial data issuing agencies; and over 1,000 reference publications. Data of are categorized as follow:
1. National Accounts 2. Balance of Payments and Trade 3. Prices and Inflation 4. Interest and Exchange Rates 5. Financial Markets 6. Monetary Sector 7. Population and Labour Market 8. Production, Construction and Properties 9. Tourism 10. Transport and Communication
| Cochrane Library (current) |
The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence in health care. It is updated quarterly and includes the following databases:
| COLLEGE SOURCE ONLINE (Current Year) |
College Source Online (Current Year) features over 9,000 College Catalogs and contains the most up-to-date US colleges' information including course descriptions, academic policies, faculty information, admission requirements, campus maps etc.
| Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (2000) |
It is the online version of the Comprehensive Clinical Psychology published by Elsevier Science. It includes 267 chapters, 7,000 pages, approx. 28,000 references and 37,000 subject index items. It covers everything from the history and theory of the field, to current thinking on training, clinical techniques, professional standards and practices, and socio-cultural factors in mental health.
| CRCnetBASE |
CRCnetBASE provides full-text access to over 350 CRC Press reference books, allowing the easy location of data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, and summaries. Books can be searched individually or simultaneously. The reference books are categorized into these major subsets:
| CSMAR Databases |
Three titles are covered in this financial database:
(1) China listed firms corporate governance research database 中國上市公司治理結構研究數據庫 (1999-2005),
(2) China stock market financial research database - annual report 中國上市公司財務年報(1990-2005),
(3)China stock market financial research database - financial ratios 指標分析數據庫 (1990-2005).
| DATASTREAM INTERNATIONAL |
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This online database provides comprehensive current and, historical coverage on over 140,000 securities and instruments from markets worldwide. It is useful for evaluating investment opportunities and corporate performance, comparing international market, analysing years or more history and it comes with extensive details on fundamental indicators, such as earnings, yields, balance sheets, and ratios.
| Dictionary of Analytical Reagents (1994) |
The Dictionary of Analytical Reagents is part of the Chapman and Hall Chemical Database and contains information on chemical substances which may appear in Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Dictionary of Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs and Dictionary of Analytical Reagents.
| DISTANCE EDUCATION DATABASE (1993+) |
The database consists of three main elements :
Courses :
over 23,000 distance taught courses and programmes offered by institutions and organizations, mainly within the Commonwealth. They range in level from pre-primary to post-graduate degree and from general interest to specialised vocational courses.
Institutions :
over 600 institutions are listed, including all those for which courses and programmes are included in the database.
Literature :
over 4,600 references to books, articles, conference papers, theses, reports and guides on distance education topics.
| Duane's Clinical Ophthalmology on CD-ROM (2001) |
Duane's Clinical Ophthalmology on CD-ROM is a reference tool which covers recent developments in the field of ophthalmology. It includes the following:
| Economist Intelligence Unit (1996+) |
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) contains timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in selected countries. It focuses on the latest management thinking and includes reports on various strategic industries. The subscribed EIU covers the following titles:
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| Education: The Complete Encyclopedia (1998) |
It combines the full text of the two leading reference works: The International Encyclopedia of Education (Second Edition) and The Encyclopedia of Higher Education. It includes abstracts of references supplied from ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database. 17,000 bibliographic references in the encyclopedia have a matching entry in the ERIC database.
| Emerald Management Xtra (1994+) |
Emerald Management Xtra combines the resources of both the Emerald Fulltext and the Emerald Management Reviews. Emerald Fulltext (formerly the Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext) provides access to more than 100 management research journals. It contains about 35,000 full-text management articles back to 1994. In addition abstracts are also provided for articles back to 1989. It is updated on a weekly basis and covers various subjects including:
Emerald Reviews (formerly the Anbar International Management Database) provides access to the latest and most significant new thinking, practice and solutions from the entire management field. It covers the major management disciplines including accounting & finance, marketing & logistics, human resource management, quality management, strategy, operations & production management, information management & technology, health-care management, and hospitality & tourism.
| Emerging Markets Online (individual titles varies) |
It delivers original, same-day comment and interpretation of key financial, economic and political developments across emerging markets worldwide.
| Encyclopedia of Life Science (Latest Edition) |
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences features more than 3,900 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles in the areas of biological sciences. Coverage includes: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of Life, Functional and Comparative Morphology, Genetics and Disease, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Plant Science, Science and Society, Structural Biology as well as Virology.
| The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology (Latest edition) |
Providing comprehensive coverage of this broad and interdisciplinary field, it reflects future trends and developments in the field of materials through the addition of new and updated articles.
| Encyclopedia of Polymer Science & Technology (Latest Edition) |
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology is an online reference which provides information about polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes.
| Encyclopedia of Soil Science |
The Encyclopedia of Soil Science is the online version of the print edition, browsable by Table of Contents and searchable by keyword. It includes colour graphics and images. It covers "all branches of soil science, from mineralogy and physics to soil management and restoration".
| Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Latest Edition) |
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences covers 16 volumes of the print reference with more than 3000 combined authorships in over 30 countries. It is an online reference for those working in statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, economics, sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology and survey methodology.
| Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science (Latest Edition) |
Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science is an online reference for researchers, educators and students in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, market research, consumer behavior, management science, decision making and human resource management. It encompasses the refined statistical concepts and techniques that are essential for behavioral science research and development.
| ENGnetBASE (Latest edition) |
It provides online access to engineering handbooks that are published by CRC Press.
| ERIC E*Subscribe (1993-July 2006) |
ERIC E*Subscribe provides direct access to about 80% of ERIC documents electronically in PDF format. The remainder is restricted by contributors to the microfiche release of Resources in Education which is available at the Media Services of the Library with Call No L11.R47. E*Subscribe also offers an alternative fulltext access to ERIC documents via the EBSCOhost platform.
| ERIC via EBSCOhost (1993+) |
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ERIC via EBSCOhost contains citations and abstracts from over 980 education-related literature. It provides access to approximately 92% of ERIC documents electronically in PDF format via E*Subscribe. This database is updated quarterly.
The microfiche version is available at the Media Services of the Library with Call No L11.R47.
| ExpressExec (Latest Edition) |
ExpressExec is a completely up-to-date resource of current business practice which contains best practice cases, key ideas, action points, glossaries, further reading and resources with live links to other information sources.
| Fashion Archive & Fabric Library |
Provided in the Apparelkey portal site affiliated to the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC), PolyU, the Fashion Archive provides fashion knowledge in pictorial context and images of various fashion brand names in different eras. The Fabric Library covers essential information on traditional and "smart" fabrics from textile industry around the world, with classification of fabrics information by types and in different catalogues for easy searching.
| Food Chemicals Codex (1999) |
It contains the following:
| General Periodicals Ondisc ceased to (1988 - Aug 2000) |
The General Periodical Ondisc is an index to articles published in more than 1,650 popular and academic journals from 1986 to date. Some full-text articles are also included. Subject coverage includes business and management, social sciences, general sciences, humanities, economics and current affairs.
| Global Development Finance (1970+) |
It contains country data on income, indebtedness, external debt, aggregate net resource flow (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, and net financial flows from multilateral etc.
| Global Market Information Database (individual titles varies) |
It provides information on detailed market size, country marketing parameters, marketing forecast data, consumer lifestyles, business sources as well as marketing profiles and analysis.
| The Grove Dictionary of Art |
A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s, the Dictionary provides instant aaccess to 30,000 fully searchable colour images, and over 41,000 full-text articles. It is also a unique central reference source for the humanities in general: history, geography, theology, anthropology, archaeology, Classics and cultural studies, for example, are some of the fields for which the Dictionary provides a global and in-depth introduction.
| Guide on CD (current) |
The Guide on CD (current) contains information on over 5,000 ports, terminals, sub-ports and aliases worldwide. It covers over 4,300 Port Plans and Photos, including Approach and Location Plans and Photographs, Berth Plans and Mooring Diagrams, Berth Equipment Diagrams and Plans drawn by Shipmaster's to illustrate particular features. It is updated quarterly.
| Handbook of Psychology (Latest Edition) |
Handbook of Psychology is an online reference which covers every discipline of psychology from the established theories to the most modern research and developments.
| Health and Safety Professional (individual title various) |
Health and Safety Professional from Barbour Index covers the information requirements for health and safety legislation, in-house standards and best practice. It contains full text libraries of information, summaries of key documents, guides, forms and checklists.
It covers the following:
| Hong Kong CensusPro (2001) |
It encompasses a wealth of information from the 2001 Population By-census data released by the Census and Statistics Department.
| Authorised Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest (1905+) |
The Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest contains the complete collection of authorised Hong Kong law reports and digests dating back to 1905. It includes reported cases, digests of additional cases and digests of legislation. This on-line database corresponds to the printed publications The Hong Kong law reports (1905-1996) and The Authorised Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest (1997+).
| Hong Kong Monthly Statistics Online (individual title various) |
This database provides online access to monthly and annual Hong Kong statistics covering population, labour, trade, production, land, price and commerce etc.
| Hong Kong Standard |
It has a wide coverage of local and international news. It is accessible from the Dow Jones News/Retrieval (01 Jan 96 +), Reuters Business Briefing (Nov 96 +), LexisNexis Academic (June 96 +) and WiseNews ( 27 June 98 +).
| ICE Virtual Library (1836+) |
The ICE Virtual Library contains every peer-reviewed paper produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers since its first meeting in 1836.
| IEEE/IEE Electronic Library via IEEE Xplore (1988+) |
It is the Internet version of IEEE/IEE Electronic Library. It contains the full text and images of the entire collection of IEE and IEEE journals, conference proceedings from 1988 and a set of IEEE Standards.
Subject coverage:
Physics Electrical engineering and electronics Computers / computer science Information technology
| IHO Publications (individual title various) |
Published by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHP), this online database provides fulltext access to the following titles:
| INFOBANK CHINA |
An extensive database of China information. It includes:
| Information management & Multimedia (current) |
It focuses on operational management techniques for creating, assessing and delivering business information through available standards, technologies and tools. Coverage include information management, messaging, groupware, multimedia, workflow technologies, products, vendors, document imaging, management systems technology, manufacturers, and products.
| IngentaConnect (individual title varies) |
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online. Currently, PolyU users have full-text access to about 400 journal publications.
| Institute of Physics |
| International Statistical Yearbook (Latest edition) |
International Statistical Yearbook (Latest edition) covers a wide range of economic and socio-economic themes including short term economic indicators, general economic statistics, industry statistics, national accounts statistics, financial statistics, social statistics, communications statistics, transport statistics, demographic statistics etc. It contains more than 1,600,000 monthly, quarterly and annual time series. It is updated annually.
| Internurse.com (individual title varies) |
Internurse.com provides access to nursing and midwifery titles, including the British Journal of Nursing, British Journal of Midwifery, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, British Journal of Community Nursing, Practice Nursing, and Nursing & Residential Care.
| ISI Emerging Markets |
ISI Emerging Markets delivers hard-to-get information on more than 60 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 9000 local and global publications.
| isinolaw.com (individual title varies) |
isinolaw.com is a bilingual website with a comprehensive set of laws and regulations from both national and provincial levels. It provides access to the latest developments and law cases from China's legal scene including National Laws and Regulations, Local Laws and Regulations, Judicial Interpretations, Court Judgements, Arbitration Awards as well as up-to-date legal news and development in China. Currently, it contains about 70,000 of these laws in Chinese, of which about 3,000 national legislation, administrative regulations and judicial interpretations granted by the Supreme People's Court have been translated into English.
| Joanna Briggs Institute |
The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international Research and Development Unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital, and an Affiliated Institute of the University of Adelaide. PolyU's subscription to the Institute includes five titles:
1) Best practice Information Sheets Database;
2) International Journal of Evidence-Based Health Care;
3) Evidence in Healthcare Reports;
4) Selected Peer Reviewed Journals; and,
| Journal Citation Reports on the Web: Science and Social Sciences Editions (1997+) |
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Published by the Institute for Scientific Information annually, the Journal Citation Reports provides a systematic and objective means of determining the relative importance of science and social sciences journals within their subject categories. For Science Edition, it includes topics from Agriculture to Zoology and contains citation data on nearly 5,000 leading science journals. For Social Science Edition, it includes topics from anthropology to women's studies and contains citation data on approximately 1,700 leading social sciences journals.
The JCR can tell you:
| Journal performance indicators on diskette (1981-2003) |
It contains citation statistics that reflect the performance of journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It summarizes counts of publications and citations from the peer-reviewed journals indexed by ISI.
| JSTOR (individual title varies) |
JSTOR is a backfile archive of the scholarly journal literature which contains Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Ecology & Botany Collection, and General Science Collection.
| Just-style.com (current) |
Just-style.com is an online portal for apparel, footwear and textile industry professionals. It offers access to daily industry news, feature articles, market reports, statistics, company profiles and industry resources etc.
| Kluwer Online (individual title varies) |
Kluwer Online allows access to the full-text of Kluwer journals. It incorporates the following publications:
| Kompass.com (current) |
It contains the Kompass Worldwide Database with close to 1.6 million companies, 50,000 product and service codes, 23 million product and service references, 744,000 trade and brand names, and 3.2 million executives' names in over 70 countries.
| Law Reports (1865+) |
It contains published reports of cases which constitute binding precedents in English law. It is divided into Appeal Court, Chancery, Queen's (or King's) Bench, and Probate (now called Family) Divisions from 1891. The earlier series back to 1865 were differently divided but all are included in the database.
| LawInfoChina (1949+) |
LawInfoChina is a comprehensive bilingual database of law in the Mainland. It consists of:
(1) All the laws adopted by the National People's Congress (NPC) and NPC Standing Committee from 1949 up to the present;
(2) All the administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council from 1949 up to the present;
(3) Ministerial rules promulgated or approved by the departments under the State Council and independent agencies such as the China Securities Regulatory Commission, etc.;
(4) Important judicial interpretations that substantially influence legal practices, and indeed recognized as an indispensable part of original laws and regulations;
(5) Important local regulations and local rules that have a bearing on foreign-related activities or high-tech industry and economic development of the local places.
Moreover, The database of Chinese judicial cases contains English-Chinese bilingual judicial cases, the Chinese original of which have been published in the Gazette of the Supreme Peoples Court and court decisions of the peoples courts selected by the Supreme Peoples Court. The cases fall into six legal areas: civil law, criminal law, economic law, maritime law, and intellectual property law. Each case in this database is an editorial-enhanced document that consists of background, facts, involved parties, trial court and appellate court, reasoning and law application as well as court decision.
| The Laws of Hong Kong |
The Law of Hong Kong contains the statutory Laws of Hong Kong in English and Chinese (about 95000 A4 pages). Selected constitutional documents such as the Sino-British Joint Declaration, Basic Law of the HKSAR and Chinese National laws applying to Hong Kong are also included. Its data is kept up-to-date to within an average of 3 weeks after the publication of the Gazette.
| LEXIS/NEXIS |
The LEXIS/NEXIS services make up the world's largest full-text database. It contains an expanding an up-to-date volume and diversity of information. Focus is mainly on legal information. Staff of the Polyu can enquire at the Information Desk of the Library for using this service.
| Lloyd's List (1991+) |
Lloyd's List (1991+) is an international daily business newspaper established in 1734. It operates on a global scale through a network of specialist correspondents and journalists. It is a leading maritime paper and journal of record. The Internet version of Lloyd's List contains the defaulted Lloyd's List Archive (1991+) and the Lloyd's List Current Edition (latest week). While the former is a fully searchable database of all editorial stories and features from Lloyd's List since Jan 1991, the latter is updated at 0001 CET six days a week and can be accessed via the "Fast Link" at the bottom of the defaulted screen.
| Management and organization studies : a SAGE full-text collection |
The database includes the full text of 38 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 57 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as: Business & Management, Organizations Studies, Management, Strategic Management and Business Policy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, Marketing, Analytical Marketing, Sociology, Sociology of Work, Public Policy and Public Administration, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication.
| Managing Data Networks (current) |
It provides networking professionals tactical information about the issues, trends, technologies, and methodologies of managing a broad range of sizes, configurations, and types of data networks. Coverage focuses on managing the physical network, transmission technologies, local area network and wide area network technologies and topologies, high-speed data communications, and remote access techniques.
| MAS Ultra-School Edition (individual title varies) |
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text coverage for events publications covering general reference, health, science and other areas.
The following databases could also be accessed under this link.
| MD Consult (Core Collection) (individual title varies) |
MD Consult (Core Collection) provides answers to clinical questions and medical updates. Its cross searching on medical textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, patient education and drug information provides an integrated approach to answer clinical questions. There are currently 134 journals and 47 medical textbooks being subscribed by PolyU.
Eligible users could access and synchronize health care information/updates to PDA via the mobile component POCKETConsult of MDConsult. These include:
Please access POCKETConsult directly at http://pocketconsult.elsevier.com/handheldhome/jsp-web/login.jsp to login or create your personal account. For help and instructions on using POCKETConsult, please refer to the POCKETConsult user guide.
| Means CostWorks (current) |
It provides cost data for the construction and design industries.
| Medicines Compendium (Latest Edition) |
The Medicines Compendium provides access to up-to-date and authoritative UK medicines information and is available on annual subscription (updated quarterly).
| MEDLINE (1966+) |
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE
database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and
abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information
from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing,
as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological
and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate
to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology,
and reproductive biology. More than 8.7 million records from more than
3,600 journals are indexed, plus selected monographs of congresses and
symposia (1976-1981). Abstracts are included for about 67% of the records.
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| Monthly bulletin of statistics(latest edition) |
It contains monthly economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world. Annual or quarterly data on various subjects illustrating important economic long-term trends and development is also provided.
The print version is available at the Reference Collection and Serials Collection of the Library with Call No. HA42.U53.
| National Fire Codes Online |
Published by the National Fire Protection Association, National Fire Codes Online (current) provides access to the complete collection of current National Fire Codes. All revised Codes and Standards, as well as Formal Interpretations and Tentative Interim Amendments are incorporated into data as soon as released. It is searchable within the complete collection or a subset of document.
| Nursing & Biomedical Sciences Fulltext 1995 + |
Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphicscaptions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow usersto display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selectedsection, to display complete references cited within the text of adocument, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents.The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, andphotographs as they appear in print.
The Full Text Core Biomedical Collection includes:
| Optics Infobase (individual title varies) |
It is a repository of optics research and provides access to the following:
| OSIRIS - Publicly Listed Companies Worldwide (current and historical) |
OSIRIS is a comprehensive database of 46,000 listed companies from 190 countries. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and ratios, it contains a wide range of complementary information such as ownership, subsidiaries, and ratings.
| Oxford English Dictionary Online (current) |
Provides the complete text of the printed version of Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition 1989) together with its 3-volume Additions Series published in 1993 (Volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (Volume 3). New and revised entries will be published on Oxford English Dictionary Online quarterly as part of the growing New Edition.
(The print version of the 20-volume Second Edition is available at the Reference Collection of the Library with Call No. PE1625.M72 1989.)
| Perfect Analysis |
Continues the databases formerly known as Hydra. Covers information of over 14,000 public companies, 34,000 securities, 2,400 stock indices and exchange rates of more than 160 currencies around the world. Includes balance sheet information of up to 5 years; and stock /index /currency exchange data up to 10 years. Daily updated.
| PhraseBooks (2000) |
PhraseBooks (2000) is developed to assist non-native speakers writing papers, articles, books and theses in English. Written by authors experienced in academic writing, the content, style and language are specially tailored for university and research.
| Ports of the World (current) |
It provides access to the world's 2600 commercial ports with facts and contacts. The print version is available at the Reference Collection of the Library with Call No.HE552.L54.
| Primary Search (individual title varies) |
Search Guide | Basic Searching Tutorial Guide | Advanced Searching Tutorial Guide
This database provides full text coverage for more than 50 popular magazines for elementary school research.
The following databases could also be accessed under this link.
| Professional Development Collection (individual title varies) |
Search Guide | Basic Searching Tutorial Guide | Advanced Searching Tutorial Guide
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a specialized collection of over 515 full text journals.
The following databases could also be accessed under this link.
| Project MUSE (individual titles varies) |
Project MUSE offers the full text of scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
| Prospects Planner |
A guidance program enables students and graduates to explore every stage of the career planning process - from first thoughts to effective application procedures.
| Regional Business News (individual title varies) |
Search Guide | Basic Searching Tutorial Guide | Advanced Searching Tutorial Guide
It provides full text access to 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
The following databases could also be accessed under this link.
| Register of Ships (current) |
It provides access to the whole of LR's ship information, along with details on owners, managers and shipbuilders. The print version is available at the Reference Collection of the Library with Call No. HE565.A3 L6.
| Researcher's Guide Online (Latest Edition) |
It contains data that comprises the established BUFVC reference work, the Researcher's Guide: Film, Television and Related Documentation Collections in the UK. It has entries on almost 550 film, television, radio and related documentation collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
| RICS Foundation Publications (1995+) |
It provides access to work published by RICS Foundation on land, property, construction and development.
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998) |
It is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998).
It contains more than 2000 original articles from over 1300 experts across the discipline of philosophy.
(The print version is available at the Reference Collection of the Library with Call No. B51 .R68 1998)
| SAE Digital Library (1998+) |
It contains technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.
| SCMP.com (1993+) |
Search Guide
It provides online access to all South China Morning Post articles since 1993.
| Science Direct - Online Journals by Elsevier Science (1996+) |
ScienceDirect is a collection of scientific articles accessible through the Internet. It contains the full-text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in 14 fields of Science and Social Sciences as well as abstracts from other core journals in the major scientific disciplines. It covers various subjects including:
| Shipping Intelligence Network (individual title varies) |
It offers online access to shipping information including the Shipping Intelligence Weekly, Dry Bulk Trade Outlook, Oil and Tanker Trade Outlook, Container Intelligence Monthly, World Shipyard Monitor, World Shipyard Orderbook, World Shiptype Orderbook as well as Shipping Review and Outlook.
| Sinowisdom (current) |
Sinowisdom provides analysis and statistical reports on China's affairs, market and business. It also covers the following:
| Slide Image Database |
For better preservation and accessibility, the Library has transferred 80,000 slide images into electronic format. Images can be accessed by artists'/designers' names, titles of works, library call numbers and descriptive keywords. Users can freely combine up to 20 keywords or include alternative terms. High quality images will be displayed in just a few seconds. These images can be saved and recalled in a presentation sequence. Users may also get hard copies of images that have no copyright restrictions. The system can be accessed campus wide.
| SourceOECD (1998+) |
SourceOECD (1998+) is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It provides full-text access to all the OECD printed books, reports, Periodicals and Statistics.
| South China Morning Post |
The SCMP CD-ROM at Station 12 contains more than 80,000 articles, graphics and selected photographs from the pages of South China Morning Post newspaper. It also includes World Bank Statistics covering Hong Kong and China, lists of companies trading on the Chinese and Hong Kong stock exchanges and the names of selected personalities who feature in the news.
It is also accessible from Dialog@Carl (1992+), Dow Jones News/Retrieval (07 Jan 92 +), Reuters Business Briefing (latest 10 years) and Academic Universe (28 July 92 +). For the Internet versions, full-text articles (without graphics) from the newspaper are included and are updated more frequently.
| Software Directories (current) |
It provides comprehensive coverage of commercially available applications and systems software packages. Information is detailed and includes basic features, price, platform and operating system compatibility, installed base and other characteristics.
| Springer LINK Online Libraries |
Springer LINK is divided according to field into the so-called Online Libraries of life sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering, environmental sciences, and economics. Over 400 journals can be searched. HK PolyU users can view the full-text articles of over 50 journals.
| Supermap Hong Kong (1991) |
Contains Hong Kong demographic information from 1991 population Census as well as from 1981 Census and 1986 By-Census. Provides data on living quaraters; domestic households, including household size, household rent per month, and houshold tenure; and persons, including age, marital status, educational attainment, and income from main employmenet, etc. Data are available in 2 different geographic demarcation systems: Tertiary Planning Units/Street Blocks and District Boards/Constituency Areas.
| Supermap Hong Kong (1996) |
SUPERMAP Hong Kong 1996 encompasses a wealth of information from the 1996 Population By-census data released by the Census and Statistics Department. Applications can be as diverse as network planning, site location analysis, direct market targeting, planning of public services, transport studies, market research etc.
Data Coverage
| Synergy (individual title varies) |
Blackwell Synergy is an online journals service. It currently offers Blackwell Publishing science, medicine, technology, psychology, economics, humanities and social science journals, which is a source for highly cited peer-reviewed journals published on behalf of academic and professional societies.
| TheGoodGuides |
TheGoodGuides (current) provides authoritative, independent and comprehensive guides to Australian higher education. It provides users with information they need to make considered decisions about which university and which course best suits their needs.
| The Good Software Guide |
The GOOD SOFTWARE GUIDE offers a practical solution to the needs of businessmen, technologists, and professionals. A concise guide to the best corporate and SME software on the market worldwide, products are selected according to several criteria, including positive user reports, the quantity of the user base, the financial viability of the manufacturer and availability, support and training. Products reviewed are typically within the $100-$10,000 price range.
| United Nations Treaty Collection (individual title varies) |
The United Nations Treaty Collection contains all multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary- General of the United Nations and those formerly deposited with the League of Nations. It also provides access to bilateral and multilateral treaties registered with and published by the United Nations Secretariat in accordance with Article 102. Deposited Multilateral Treaties that have been deposited but not yet published are also provided.
| USP-NF Online (Latest Edition) |
Provided and continuously updated by The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., it provides information on official pharmaceutical standards and test methods.
| Video Librarian Plus (1986+) |
It is the online version of the Video Librarian magazine. It provides online access to a searchable database of over 12,000 full-text video reviews, 1,000 video distributors, breaking news, and a months in advance video release calendar.
| Vocational and Career Collection (individual title varies) |
Search Guide | Basic Searching Tutorial Guide | Advanced Searching Tutorial Guide
The following databases could also be accessed under this link.
| Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering (Latest Edition) |
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering is an online reference which includes articles in the areas of biochemical engineering, biomedical education, biomedical devices and instrumentation, human performance and reverse engineering as well as rehabilitation and orthopedic engineering.
| Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Latest Edition) |
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering is a unique, comprehensive reference work that defines the entire discipline encompassed by electronics and electrical engineering including historical background of fields in electrical and electronics engineering, education, patents and software engineering.
| Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunication (Latest Edition) |
Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications provides a broad, clear overview of both the fundamentals of and recent advances in telecommunications. Coverage includes: Optical Communications, Modulation and Demodulation, Coding and Decoding, Antennas as well as Communication Networks
| Wiley InterScience |
Wiley InterScience offers access to more than 400 scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals . All users can search all Tables of Contents and abstracts, and browse abstracts published within the last 12 months. Hong Kong PolyU users can view the full-text articles of over 70 journals.
| WiseNews (電子剪報) (1998+) |
WiseNews is a database of over 200 newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan. These major local newspapers are included in the database:
| 星島日報 (since 12 Aug 1998) | 香港商報 (since 11 Aug 1998) | 大公報 (since 11 Aug 1998) |
| 明報 (since 21 Sept 1998) | 成報 (since 22 Sept 1998) | 文匯報 (since 2 Apr 1998) |
| 香港經濟日報 (since 14 Oct 1998) | 新報 (since 8 Feb 1999) | 天天日報 (since 15 Sept 1998 - 7 Sept 2000) |
| 蘋果日報 (since 2 Dec 1998) | 太陽報 (since 1 Sept 2000) | 東方日報 (since 1 Sept 2000) |
| 公正報 (since 30 Sept 2000) | A 報 (since 31 Oct 2000) | SCMP.com (since 12 Aug 2000) |
| Hongkong iMail (since 2 Oct 2000) | Hongkong Standard (27 Jun 1998-27 May 200) |
| World Bank China Library on CD-ROM (1998+) |
It is a compilation of World Bank information and data, and contains the complete seven-volume China 2020 report (including data tables, charts and graphs) and other Sectors Reports by the World Bank's China & Mongolia Department.
Contents:
| World Development Indicators (1960+) |
It provides time-series indicators for countries and regional groups. It is useful for analyzing business opportunities in developing countries and emerging markets.
| World Shipping Encyclopaedia (current) |
It provides access to the latest details on commercial vessels, companies and ports.