The Hongkong Weekly Press Online collection comprises approximately 15,000 full-text searchable pages from the Hongkong Weekly Press, an English-language weekly newspaper published between 1890 and 1945, with the online collection focusing on the issues published in the years 1920–1929.

ckbk is an essential resource for culinary professionals and researchers, offering a curated collection of over 1,000 fully searchable cookbooks with more than 170,000 recipes. It is accessible via web or mobile app.

Key content includes an international selection of trusted cookbooks spanning cultures and eras, extensive professional and reference materials, detailed information on ingredients and cooking styles, food history, nutritional search filters for specific dietary needs, and automated US/metric unit conversion.

Aeronautics and Space Flight: Global Origins of Modern Aviation and Rocketry is a fully searchable, digitized collection of primary source documents on aerospace engineering, rocketry, and aviation from 1957 to 1995. The collection supports a wide range of STEM and humanities disciplines. Thus, researchers can easily explore topics such as satellite communications, astrophysics, and wartime technology.

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.

Expiry date: 10 Apr 2026

The Library is excited to announce the launch of our new high-performance AI computing facilities. These resources provide a dedicated environment for everyone—from beginners to advanced users—to explore, develop, and implement AI technologies.

Whether you are learning to use AI, developing custom AI applications, or completing AI coursework, the AI workstations and notebooks are fully equipped to support your needs:

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

Congratulations – PolyU Library Named Finalist for the Inaugural 2026 Clarivate Library Innovation Awards

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.

Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts is a database that serves up a diverse menu of information for culinary professionals and nutritionists. Featuring content from more than 400 major cooking and nutrition magazines alongside authoritative book reference titles from Delmar, including Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit, Be Fit.

Expiry date: 31 March 2026

Gale Power Search is a research tool that enables users to search seamlessly across multiple Gale databases including Gale General OneFile, Gale Literature, Gale In Context, and Gale eBooks from a single, intuitive platform.

By providing integrated access to millions of full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, academic journals, reference ebooks, and multimedia sources, it streamlines the research process and delivers broader discovery than any single database could offer.

Expiry date: 31 March 2026