List of Electronic Databases by Subject

Online database
CD-ROM database

Multi-disciplinary

	Database	Available at*
	China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CAJ) It offers full-text and full-image access to over 6,000 serials published in China in the fields of science and engineering, agriculture, medicine and hygiene, humanities, economics, politics and law, education and social sciences, electronics and information science. Articles are mainly written in Chinese and only some of them are English articles. Central Library provides all 9 series, City Hall Public Library provides the series on politics and law only, and Kowloon Public Library and Sha Tin Public Library provide the series on education and social sciences only.	HKC, CHPL, KPL, STPL Free search of citation references on Internet
	China Doctoral /Master's Dissertation (CDMD) It offers full-image access to over 80,000 dissertations from 300 academic institutions in China starting from 1999 onwards. The database is divided into 9 series according to the subjects of the dissertations and our libraries have subscribed to 3 of them: Humanities (available at Hong Kong Central Library), Education and Social Sciences (available at Hong Kong Central Library and Kowloon Public Library), and Economics, Politics and Law (available at Hong Kong Central Library and City Hall Public Library).	HKC, CHPL, KPL Free search of citation references on Internet
	ProQuest 5000 ProQuest 5000 contains more than 7,000 titles, some 3,500 in full text. It combines international, national and regional newspapers and periodicals to make an integral collection of databases in business, general reference, arts, humanities, sciences, career and technical education, computing, religion and social sciences.	ALL
	SourceOECD It provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journals and books published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1998. It provides in-depth coverage of public policy, socio-economics, trade, environment, agriculture, technology, education, taxation, and more on OECD countries. Statistics are provided for many topics.	HKC, ML

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NOTE: The availability of databases for remote access or library use is subject to change without prior notice. If you have any questions or comments on the use of these databases, you are welcome to contact us at hkcl_ref@lcsd.gov.hk .

*Library Codes:
HKC	Hong Kong Central Library (Reference Library 8/F and 9/F)
CHPL	City Hall Public Library (Reference Library)
KPL	Kowloon Public Library (Reference Library)
STPL	Sha Tin Public Library (Reference Library)
TMPL	Tuen Mun Public Library (Reference Library)
TWPL	Tsuen Wan Public Library (Reference Library)
ML	All of the above major libraries
DL	District Libraries
ARTS	Hong Kong Central Library (Arts Resource Centre)
ALL	All Hong Kong Public Libraries