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中國科學文獻數據庫 = Chinese Science Document Database (1983-2001)

This title is no longer available.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Academic Search Premier ^[Fulltext]

A multi-disciplinary database which covers 4,500 publications, including 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for about 100 journals. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. An EBSCOhost database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Aerospace Database (1962-)

Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in related fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodicals, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by AIAA NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Cambridge Journals Online ^[Fulltext] ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Provides full-text access to over 200 titles published by the Cambridge University Press.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Databases

This title is no longer available. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database has merged with ProQuest Databases.
Additional Categories: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Career Insider ^[Fulltext]

Career Insider provides a wide range of career information and management tools. Users can download over 100 ebooks on industries, companies, employers and general career topics. In addition to industry and company profiles, users can gain career advice and learn best practices in job search. First time user is required to create a personal account to access the service.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science

Chinese Science Document Database

This title is no longer available.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (Web of Science) (1990-) ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Provides access to two citation databases including Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Bibliographic information and abstract can be searched by keyword, author, conference, author's affiliation, cited author, cited work and cited year in over 110,000 journals and book-based proceedings across 256 subject disciplines. Search Guide.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

COS Conference Papers Index (1982-)

Formerly named as Conference Papers Index. This database provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Credo Reference ^[Fulltext]

An interactive reference tool that provides access to over 500 titles of dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, gazetters and quotations, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. In addition to the general search and concept map search, it also support seamless searching in various subscribed databases including Ebscohost, ProQuest, JSTOR and eBrary as well as the Library Catalog. Explore some of the 10,000 Topic Pages which organize and present information from within Credo, free Web resources and Library subscribed services.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Tools, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

CrossRef

This database is no longer available.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ^[Fulltext]

Covers the fundamental principles, theories, and methodologies of nanoscience and nanotechnology as well as their applications in materials and surface science, mechanical, optical, and electrical engineering, computer technology, chemistry, biomedicine, and many other areas. The database contains over 300 articles, nearly 4,000 pictures, illustrations, and tables, plus more than 21,000 references.
Additional Categories: Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Dissertations & Theses @ Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (ProQuest) ^[Fulltext]

This database offers access to more than 1,400 dissertations and theses from various subject areas produced by students at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Ebrary ^[Fulltext]

Contains close to 5,000 ebooks from leading publishers in a wide variety of subject areas. Both browsing and full-text searching are supported. During each session, users can print/download up to 40 pages per request.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

EBSCO Animals

This title is no longer available. See Primary Search.
Additional Categories: Science->Alphabetical Listing

EBSCO eBook Collection ^[Fulltext]

Formerly called NetLibrary, it provides full-text access to 42,000 titles. A wide range of subjects are covered, including arts & architecture, business & economics, computer science, engineering & technology, fiction, literature & criticism, mathematics, philosophy, psychology religion, etc. The database also supports full-text keyword searching and allows note-taking. The contents of the books can be saved or printed. Users can print up to 60 pages in one session.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

EBSCOhost Research Databases ^[Fulltext]

Consists of eighteen databases which provide access to the full text/images of a large collection of ebooks, journals, magazines, reports, and newspapers in various disciplines. Cross searching among the databases is allowed. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements (1985-) ^[Fulltext]

Provides indexes and detailed abstracts of environmental impact statements issued by the U.S. Federal Government. Topics include air transportation, defense programs, energy hazardous substances, land use, parks, refuges, and forests, research and development, roads and railroads, urban and social programs and water. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering->Chemical Engineering, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Environment Abstracts (1975-)

Provides citations to more than 950 journals, conference proceedings and special reports covered in all aspects of environmental issues. Topics include control technologies, environmental design, environmental law and policy, pollution, resource management, sustainable development and lots more. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Science->Science->Life Science

FirstSearch

A collection of research databases maintained by Online Catalog Library Center (OCLC) in the United States. At present, the Library provides access to 3 FirstSearch databases including GPO Monthly Catalog, World Almanacs and WorldCat. The WorldCat contains over 30 million records of books and other materials from thousands of libraries worldwide. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Google Scholar ^{[Open Access]}

Is a Google search engine specifically for scholarly literature, e.g., peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, repositories, universities, etc. It automatically analyzes citations and includes them in search results. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

GreenFILE ^[Fulltext]

Provides over 384,000 citations and abstracts to environment-related literature, and more than 4,700 open access full-text documents. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and lots more. An EBSCOhost database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Science, Science->Life Science

IOS Press ^[Fulltext]

Provides full-text access to over 70 journals published by IOS Press. Subjects covered are mostly in science and engineering, but some business and humanities and social sciences titles are also included.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Journal Citation Reports on CD-ROM (Science ed.) (1994-2001)

Provides citation statistics for determining the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. The database covers 5,700 leading international science and engineering journals. Users can filter the journals by subject and then sort them by impact factor, immediacy index, total cites, current articles, cited half-life, or journal title. This database is available in the Database Room on the Library G/F. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Journal Citation Reports on the Web (2002-)

Provides citation statistics for determining the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. The Science edition covers 6,300 leading international science and engineering journals. The Social Sciences edition covers 1,800 leading business and social sciences journals. Users can filter the journals by subject and then sort them by impact factor, immediacy index, total cites, current articles, cited half-life, or journal title.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences->Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

JSTOR ^[Fulltext] ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Offers the full-text of over 200 core journals in 24 disciplines going back to their first issues. As an archival database, issues of recent 3-5 years are not available. Both browsing and full-text searching are supported.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

MyiLibrary ^[Fulltext]

It provides access to 12,511 e-books published from 2004-2011. The titles cover a broad range of humanities and social sciences subjects. About 1,700 science and technology titles are also included. Users can browse by subject, publisher and title or search the full-text of the books.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science

NetLibrary

This title is no longer available, it has merged into EBSCOhost. See EBSCO eBook Collection.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

NIST Data Gateway ^[Fulltext] ^{[Open Access]}

Provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data that covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. Also includes links to selected free online NIST databases. One can search by keywords, properties and substances across a collection of NIST databases.
Additional Categories: Science->Alphabetical Listing

NTIS (1964-) ^{[Open Access]}

The largest official source for U.S. government-sponsored information in the fields of science, engineering, business and social sciences. More than 600,000 records covering publications, technical reports, and multimedia files are searchable.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences->Social Sciences, Science->Alphabetical Listing

OAIster ^[Fulltext] ^{[Open Access]}

Provides free access to 23 million digital scholarly resources, such as books, journal articles, technical reports, preprints, theses, working papers, audio files, images, etc. harvested from over 1,100 institutions worldwide.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Ovid Databases

These include:
Engineering: INSPEC
Humanities & Social Sciences: ERIC | PsycARTICLES | PsycINFO
Science: Biological Abstracts (1991-2000) | BIOSIS Previews (2001-2005) | BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts | INSPEC | Medline | Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations | Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Medline | OldMedline

Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Oxford Journals ^[Fulltext] ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Provides full-text access to over 190 journals published by the Oxford University Press.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Oxford Scholarship Online ^[Fulltext]

Contains over 1,800 e-books in a variety of subjects with an emphasis on humanities and social sciences. Both browsing and full-text keyword searching are supported.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

ProQuest ^[Fulltext]

Is a web-based service which provides users with seamless access to a large collection of citations and full-text/images of periodicals, magazines and newspapers in medical research, telecommunications and computer science, applied and general sciences, business, humanities and social sciences. Cross searching among the 35 databases is permissible. Emailing or downloading of full-text articles is also supported. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Business and Management->Management of Organizations, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses A&I (1861-)

Previously called ProQuest Digital Dissertations, the database contains over 2 million citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations and master's theses accepted by 1,000 universities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and other regions. It also provides 24-page previews of dissertations/theses published since 1997. Users can place online orders using their own credit cards. Free download of full-text image files is only restricted to business dissertations worldwide and HKUST PhD dissertations. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

ProQuest Science Journals (1994-) ^[Fulltext]

Provides access to about 360 leading periodicals in science and technology, half of them are in full-text. A ProQuest database. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Science Citation Index (1980-1999)

This title is no longer available.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) (1975-) ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Provides bibliographic information and abstracts to articles in 7,100 international science and engineering journals. The database also contains the references cited in the articles. It can be searched by keyword, author, source, author's affiliation, cited author, cited work and cited year. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

ScienceDirect (2000-) ^[Fulltext]

Provides access to 1,800 full-text journals published by Elsevier and its affiliates, including Academic Press, North-Holland and Pergamon. ScienceDirect has extensive coverage in science, engineering and medicine. It also contains many core journals in business, social sciences and humanities. Over 400 e-books published in 2008 are also available. The database supports both full-text searching and browsing by title or broad subject areas.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences->Social Sciences, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Scirus ^{[Open Access]}

Searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages for scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data, including peer-reviewed articles, patents, preprints, technical reports, etc. It incorporates both subscription and open access full-text scholarly literature such as arXiv.org, BioMed Central, Cogprints, government patent servers, Medline and NASA technical reports.
Additional Categories: Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Scitopia.org: Integrated Trusted Science & Technology Research ^{[Open Access]}

A federated search portal to the digital libraries of 15 leading physical science and technology societies, e.g., IEEE, AIAA, AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, OSA and more. One can search over 3 million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content, conference papers, patents, government documents, spanning 150 years of science and technology. Search results automatically take the users to the full-text articles if the source is subscribed to by the user library or freely available on the Internet.
Additional Categories: Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

SciVerse Scopus (1966-)

Provides bibliographic information and abstracts to articles in 12,600 academic journals, 750 conference proceedings, and 600 trade publications from over 4,000 international publishers. Subject coverage includes science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences. The database also contains the references cited in those articles published from 1996 onwards. Most records in Scopus are linked to the corresponding original articles at the publishers' web sites. Full-text access is limited to the publications for which the Library has an electronic subscription. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences->Social Sciences, Science->Alphabetical Listing

SpringerLink ^[Fulltext]

Provides the full images of 1,700 journals published by Springer, Kluwer, and Brill. Subjects covered include not only the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) fields, but also business, humanities and social sciences. In addition, over 17,000 full-text ebooks published by Springer since 1997 are also available. Full-text access is limited to those titles purchased by the Library.
Additional Categories: Business and Management->Economics, Business and Management->Information and Systems Management, Engineering, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Testing & Education Reference Center ^[Fulltext]

Comprises 6 sections: High School Tools, College Prep Tools, Career Tools, Graduate School Tools, International and Family College Planning Center which provide extensive career and education-related information in North America. Some unique resources are Resume Builder, Virtual Career Library (Under Career Tools--> Research Careers), Graduate School Search, Graduate Scholarship Search, and online practice tests and ebooks for TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and many other graduate/college entrance examinations. Users need to create an account in TERC to access certain features such as viewing e-books and taking practice tests.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Versita Open ^[Fulltext] ^{[Open Access]}

Provides about 200 scholarly journals from a broad range of subject areas published by societies, universities and research institutes around the world.
Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Web of Science (1975-) ^{[Mobile Capable]}

Provides web access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities. SCIE covers 7,100 international science and engineering journals. SSCI covers 2,100 social science and business journals worldwide. Both databases can be searched by keyword, author, source, author's affiliation, cited author, cited work and cited year. CPCI provides bibliographic information and abstracts to papers in over 110,000 conference proceedings worldwide across 256 subject disciplines. All four indexes contain the references cited in the papers. Search Guide
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Wiley Electronic Major Reference Works (Wiley eMRWs) ^[Fulltext]

These include:

Engineering: Encyclopedia of Telecommunications | Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering | Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Science: Current Protocols in Molecular Biology | Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry | Encyclopedia of Life Sciences | Encyclopedia of Polymer Science & Technology | Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences | Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology | Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry | Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
Social Sciences: Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science | Handbook of Psychology

Additional Categories: Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences->Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

Wiley Online Library ^[Fulltext]

Formerly called WileyInterscience, it provides integrated access to citations and abstracts of over 1,500 journals, reference works and books published by John Wiley & Sons, including key imprints of Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH and Jossey-Bass. Full-text access is restricted to 1,229 journals, 380 books and 3 major reference works for which the Library has a subscription.
Additional Categories: Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Science->Alphabetical Listing

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