Gale In Context: Science is an online resource that provides in-depth, authoritative information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics, from climate change to genetic modification.

The platform integrates reference content with over 350 experiments and more than 330 interactive simulations, allowing students to actively explore concepts like circuitry, chemical equations, and force by changing variables and comparing results. Designed to support hands-on, inquiry-based learning, the platform aligns with national standards such as NGSS and CCSS.

Expiry date: 31 March 2026

Gale In Context: College is an academic resource that fosters interdisciplinary learning by developing critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation skills.

It offers researchers access to authoritative, full-text news and periodicals from globally respected titles such as The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian, while enriching the learning experience with extensive multimedia collections—including images, videos, and audio from archival footage, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. With comprehensive coverage across business, economics, science, technology, social care, and public health, the platform seamlessly integrates high-quality, trusted content into teaching, learning, and research.

Expiry date: 31 March 2026

Wolters Kluwer China Law & Reference is a comprehensive bilingual legal information platform designed specifically for legal and compliance professionals. It combines extensive resources, including Chinese laws and regulations, court judgments, prosecution documents, administrative supervision materials, international treaties, and national standards, with expert commentaries, practical guides, and templates.

Key features of the platform include AI-assisted overviews, advanced search capabilities, and judicial data visualization. It covers major subject areas such as antitrust, labour law, cybersecurity and data compliance, tax, intellectual property, outbound investment, dispute resolution, and Hong Kong law.

It supports accurate decision-making and efficient legal research.

Expiry date: 22 March 2026

To enhance the intelligence, efficiency and credibility of your research process, the Library has subscribed to additional AI-powered research tools within key scholarly resources.

• CNKI AI combines CNKI’s extensive literature database 中國知網 with AI capabilities to support your entire research journey—from discovering literature to writing and originality checks.
• Consensus synthesises findings from over 200 million peer-reviewed papers with AI-powered features like the Consensus Meter and evidence-based summaries, helping you quickly understand scientific agreement on research questions.
• LeapSpace is a unified AI-powered platform built on ScienceDirect full-text and Scopus data, empowering researchers to gain evidence-based insights, accelerate literature discovery, validate claims, identify collaborators and funding opportunities, and make informed decisions with transparent sources from trusted content in Elsevier publications, Trust Cards, and Claim Radar. (Note: From April 2026, ScienceDirect AI has fully transitioned to LeapSpace.)
• Scite facilitates discovery and evaluation of scholarly articles via Smart Citations that displays the context of the citation and describes whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence.
• Web of Science Research Assistant leverages GenAI and advanced agentic AI to accelerate literature reviews, identify trends, and build comprehensive research strategies with dynamic visualisations and guided walk throughs.

Learn more about these databases and other GenAI tools available to support your research on our LibGuide AI-Powered Academic Search in PolyU Library.

We’ll be introducing more tools soon, so be sure to look out for our announcements!