Databases

APA Academic Writer is designed to teach and apply APA Style comprehensively. It features three integrated elements  to support the writing process:

• Learning Centre: Access scholarly research and writing modules, sample papers, and guides without an account. Perfect for quick reference and self-paced learning.
• Reference Centre: Create flawless citations and references instantly using expertly designed, up-to-date APA Style templates.
• Writing Centre: A structured, collaborative space for drafting papers. It provides step-by-step guidance and preformatted templates for all types of scholarly writing across numerous disciplines.

It offers full, unlimited digital access to researchers, the top online resource for APA Style.

Key features include:

• Cover-to-cover access to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition.
• Reinforce concepts with instructional lessons that present manual content in an engaging, alternative format.
• An intuitive platform that allows users to easily search, highlight, and annotate content.
• A mobile-responsive platform optimised for accessibility and use on any device.

Bookboon is a digital resource specialising in professional development and academic study. Its core collection focuses on practical disciplines, including Business, Engineering, Economics, and Information Technology, offering a wealth of resources for students.

CAS BioFinder is engineered to accelerate research and development in drug discovery by integrating diverse data types and analytical tools. Its functionality is built upon three core pillars:

1. Integrated data platform
This platform offers comprehensive coverage, seamlessly unifying chemical, biological, and translational data with complete experimental results. Enriched with detailed scientific metadata for deeper context, it ensures data integrity through rigorous normalization and harmonization.

2. Innovation engine
This component features advanced analytics to identify critical patterns and trends. It employs predictive modelling, trained on the entire corpus of integrated data, to generate accurate forecasts. Users can then explore these insights through intuitive visualizations and dynamic clustering methods.

3. Customizable experiences
The platform can be tailored to specific research objectives. It supports bespoke workflows and machine learning training via robust APIs, enables the secure integration of proprietary client data, and allows for the customization of predictive models and user flows.

Remark: Please log into CAS SciFinder and use the three-dot menu on the top left to navigate to CAS BioFinder.

CNKI AI is an AI-based academic research tool built upon the "Huazhi Large Model" and the extensive literature from CNKI. The key features of CNKI AI include Ask a Question, Article Research, Collection Research, Intelligent Writing, and Originality Detection. These features encompass the entire research journey, from discovering literature and conducting thorough readings to organising knowledge and generating results, significantly enhancing research efficiency and quality.

Please access the trial within campus IPs, and log in with your personal account or register one before use.

Digital Library of Chinese Classics is a comprehensive scholarly resource designed to support advanced research in Chinese and comparative literature, as well as intellectual history, political history, philosophy, and religion.

Key features of the platform include high-quality critical editions with detailed editorial notes, an advanced faceted search function, and an integrated Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese.

The platform includes a substantial collection of 510 core classical texts, comprising approximately 200 million characters. This is equivalent to 282 printed volumes or about 140,000 pages. The collection is organized according to the traditional four-category bibliographic system: it includes 190 texts in the Classics (經 Jing) category, 56 in History (史 Shi), 85 in Philosophy (子 Zi), and 127 in Literature (集 Ji). Additionally, it features 52 recently excavated manuscripts from various sites across China.

IET Inspec Direct is a premier scientific and technical database, serving as an essential resource for subject-specific and interdisciplinary research across the global fields of physics, engineering, electronics, and computer science. It provided researchers, engineers, and information professionals with unparalleled access to a meticulously curated collection of literature.

The database’s core strength lies in its deep, expert-indexed coverage of four key disciplines:

• Physics
• Electrical Engineering & Electronics
• Computers, Control & Information Technology
• Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing Engineering

Containing over 20 million records and growing, Inspec remains a definitive tool for discovering the world’s leading research, from seminal historical works to the latest innovations.

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 6,307 subtitled videos and 6,270 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.

Sage Campus offers a comprehensive suite of self-paced courses focused on critical academic and professional skills, covering essential topics from information navigation and research methods to data literacy and data science, all enriched with interactive content and formative assessments to support learners at every stage of their academic journey.

Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy is an online platform designed to foster research and data literacy. It provides books, videos, and practical tools to support researchers through each phase of a project, from initial design and ethical review to data analysis and the dissemination of findings. The resource covers core concepts and detailed methodologies spanning qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research across the social, behavioural, and health sciences.

Key features include in-depth video interviews with practicing researchers, step-by-step instructional guides, real-world case studies, and practice datasets. By providing these resources and real-life examples, Sage Research Methods helps students and researchers build the skills necessary to conduct their research papers.

ScienceDirect AI is an integrated workflow companion that provides researchers with immediate access to authoritative evidence from peer-reviewed publications. It is designed to address common research challenges, including:

- Accessing answers from a vast collection of full-text articles, book chapters from ScienceDirect, and open-access content. Researchers can gain deeper insights through AI-driven recommendations tailored to their specific inquiries.

- Easily comparing experiments and synthesising literature.

- Consulting a Reading Assistant directly when opening any article or book chapter.

The Web of Science Research Assistant is a tool powered by generative AI that helps users find relevant content and easily navigate complex research tasks. The key features include:

- Accelerating your understanding of core concepts with concise overviews and commentaries.

- Providing detailed views of referenced documents and offering AI-generated responses to help determine your next research steps.

- Allowing exploration of dynamic visualisations and performing light analytics, such as co-citation networks, topic maps, and trend graphs.