More interim free e-resources are now available for study and research!  These e-resources are provided by a number of publishers/content providers for free in an interim period to support students, faculties and researchers for their online learning, teaching and research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.  To highlight a few, Springer Nature, MIT, Cambridge University Press have opened up free access to their e-textbook collections.

Grasp the opportunity to explore the e-resources accessible for free only in the interim period!  Find the latest update on Interim Free e-Resources now!

For enquiries, please contact us via the following channels: 

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PolyU Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal features quality OER selected from around the world, which are indexed and classified into eight disciplines to mirror the eight faculties/schools of the PolyU.  In the Portal, you can discover or even share open-licensed teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain, enriching and enhancing teaching and learning.    

A good news is that we have collected links of resources, cultural events, and online exhibitions around the world for you to enjoy and learn at the same time during COVID-19 pandemic!

Check out our new section “Stay Healthy & Stay Curious” on the PolyU OER Portal https://oer.lib.polyu.edu.hk/ to find out more!

For enquiries, please contact us via the following channels: 

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The Library is pleased to launch the new Digital Collections Portal with the purposes to preserve scholarly and intellectual work from the Library’s special collections, and to make the full-text openly accessible by faculty members, students and general public to support research and learning. The Portal contains digital contents of rare books, lyric manuscripts, oral history interviews and digital humanity projects. Here are the collection highlights:

1. Rare Books on China and East Asia
   

   The Library has been digitizing the rare books of its Special Collections. To give users a glimpse of the Chinese and East Asian cultures and histories in western eyes between 18th and early 20th century, this collection contains the rare books on China and East Asia which were mainly published in western countries between 1704 and 1922. Users can also browse different topics by its sub-collections including Chinese Literature, Missionary, Religions in China, Social Life and Customs in China, Statistics of China Commerce, Travel in China, etc.

2. Cheng Kok-kong’s Lyric Manuscripts & Oral History Interviews

   Cheng Kok-kong, Cantopop lyricist, was Artist-in-Residence 2017/18 of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Mr Cheng has been writing more than 2,000 Cantopop songs. Many of his songs still enjoy immense popularity to this day. These digital contents contain around 100 lyric manuscripts and his oral history interview records, which help users to know more stories behind the lyric manuscripts.

   
   “When I was Little” Lyric: Cheng Kok-kong / Composer: James Koo (1977)
   〈小時候〉詞:鄭國江 / 曲:顧嘉輝 (1977)

For enquiries, please contact us at lbviews@polyu.edu.hk.

本資料庫收錄自1900年至1949年期間，在中國大陸所出版的繁中圖書，全文數量約12萬種。書籍種類包含了人文思潮、社會研究、政治法律、史地教育、翻譯文學等等

Expiry date: 20 May 2020

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