Category: E-Resources

Up-to-date and In-depth Research Reviews by World-class Authors

E-Resources
(July 2015/Issue 50)
Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) is an online platform providing authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in various subject areas. It offers compelling new perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Peer-reviewed articles review the key issues and major debates, as well as provide an original argument for how those debates might evolve. New articles will be added monthly which provides academics with immediate access to new scholarship and informs current trends in research.

High Quality Ebooks from a Leading Academic and Professional Publisher

E-Resources
(June 2015/Issue 49)
SAGE Knowledge is a social sciences digital library. It includes an expansive range of scholarly books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks. Books are in core areas of research and debate, as well as on cutting-edge topics. They are authored by world-class academics. The Library currently has subscription to 3 disciplines: Media & Communication, Sociology, and Business & Management. The interface is very user-friendly. Book content can be downloaded at chapter level. The “My Knowledge” feature allows creating reading lists and saving searches. Give it a try here!

New Addition of High Quality Academic Ebooks

E-Resources
(June 2015/Issue 49)
Wiley Online Library hosts an extensive multidisciplinary collection of ebooks covering physical sciences, social sciences and humanities. Library’s current subscription delivers access to more than 2,000 books in 2 subject areas, namely Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting and Humanities. The simple and clean interface offers easy access to book chapters and references. Apart from searching for a specific title, it is also easy to browse by topics. The yellow lock icon indicates that you have access to the full text. Book chapters are in DRM-free PDF format. These ebooks are also findable from SearchPlus by searching “wiley online library”. Explore the high quality content available for you here.

Streaming Videos @ SearchPlus

E-Resources
(April 2015/Issue 47)
We are excited to announce that more than 4,000 streaming videos in Business & Economics from Alexander Street Press are now searchable from SearchPlus. It includes corporate training videos, executive interviews and case studies that focus on all aspects of the global business environment.


Just click HERE to show the list of streaming videos.


Use Market Research Data to Gain Insight and Stay Competitive

E-Resources
(April 2015/Issue 46)
Market research provides important information to identify and analyze the market need, market size and competition. Passport is a library subscribed global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. It features market performance of leading companies and brands, comprehensive population, socioeconomic and lifestyle data, historic data from 1997 and forecasts to 2020. The analysis and visualization tools are powerful and easy-to-use. Visit here to have a better understanding of the rapid changing global business environment.

High-Quality Journals in Humanities & Social Sciences

E-Resources
(March 2015/Issue 45)
The Library has subscribed to the Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) Package in Cambridge Journals Online. This package includes over 200 academic journals and 66% of them were cited by the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Index (AHCI). It covers all aspects of HSS subjects and is particularly strong in Linguistics, Area studies, Politics, Law and History. Visit HERE to explore the high-quality content available for you.

Experience the Databases on Trial Now!

E-Resources
(March 2015/Issue 44)
To support programme development, the Library regularly arranges trials to new e-resources. There are 7 databases currently available for trial:


  • China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database 中國博士學位論文數據庫
  • China Masters’ Theses Full-text Database 中國優秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫
  • EIU Country Report
  • INFOBANK 中國資訊行
  • ProQuest Social Science Journals
  • SOSHOO 搜數網
  • Westlaw China

Please click here to try them out and tell us what you think library@hsmc.edu.hk.