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ProQuest One Sustainability (Trial)

ProQuest One Sustainability offers a comprehensive, transdisciplinary research experience structured around essential frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the three pillars of sustainability, and the core competencies of sustainability. Created in collaboration with curriculum experts, faculty, students, continuing education learners, and librarians, this resource brings together the world’s largest and most diverse collection of sustainability-focused materials.

ProQuest One Social Sciences (Trial)

ProQuest One Social Sciences provides researchers worldwide with access to high-quality titles across regions, markets, and disciplines. The collection includes journals from top publishers such as Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Emerald, alongside a wide range of specialist full-text publications such as dissertations, trade publications, and grey literature. Coverage spans key subject areas including anthropology, criminology, economics, international relations, library science, linguistics, political science, public policy, social work, and sociology.

ProQuest One Business (Trial)

ProQuest One Business supports students and researchers in building the research skills through a unique business-specific interface. It centralizes authoritative, multi-format content, including scholarly journals, market & industry reports, analyst report, business news, books, videos, and case studies. It also includes unique discipline features such as Topic Pages for 4k global companies and 119 NAICS codes, and business-specific thesauri.

ProQuest One Psychology (Trial)

ProQuest One Psychology is a comprehensive resource designed for teaching, learning, and research in psychology. Its specialised interface provides authoritative content, including scholarly journals, therapy videos, and eBooks, while seamlessly integrating with APA databases and organising resources via curated topic pages.

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences (Trial)

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences offers a comprehensive collection of full-text resources, including scholarly journals, technical reports and government publications, spans subjects such as biological sciences, engineering, materials science, AI & computer science, animal science, biotechnology, chemistry mathematics, and robotics. This database comprises approximately 4,900 scholarly journals, 140,000 dissertations, 1,500 trade journals & magazines, 300,000 reports, 200,000 conference papers, and 2.7 million preprints.

Expiry date: 31 March 2026

Inspec Analytics (Trial)

Inspec Analytics is a dynamic research intelligence tool based on the Inspec database to help research professionals explore beyond the literature in Inspec to uncover global trends in physics, engineering, and technology research. Additional collaboration features and citation data in Inspec Analytics Plus enable users to deepen insights into the impact of global research with citation metrics.

Expiry date: 28 February 2026

Engineering Village AI (Trial)

Engineering Village (EV) AI is an intelligent, generative AI tool integrated directly into the Engineering Village platform. Built in collaboration with the engineering community and powered by the trusted Compendex database, it transforms research workflows. EV AI helps students and professionals move beyond simple searches to efficiently navigate complex, interdisciplinary content, explore unfamiliar topics, and synthesize verified insights.

Engineering Village Patents Plus (Trial)

Engineering Village (EV) Patents Plus offers expanded coverage of over 120 million patents from patent authorities including United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office (EPO), Japanese Patent Office (JPO), China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). The database comprises both patent applications and granted patents, with search functionalities across US, CPC, and IPC classifications.

Engineering Village Compendex (Trial)

Engineering Village (EV) Compendex is an engineering-focused database where researchers can access interdisciplinary scholarly and technical literature, including journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints. Content for Compendex comes from thousands of publishers worldwide, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE, and ACM. It offers a unified research perspective across 190 engineering disciplines.

Expiry date: 4 February 2026

中國近代報紙庫 (Trial)

《中國近代報紙庫》由上海圖書館《全國報刊索引》出品, 彙聚了1850年至1952年百餘年間的4000份中英文報紙,包括小報、新聞報、時報、中央日報、申報、大公報、上海泰晤士報、字林洋行中英文報等。

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