Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts

This database offers full-text articles on cooking and nutrition from major magazines and academic journals. It covers all aspects of knowledge in cookery, such as food ingredients, kitchen appliances, nutrition, cooking techniques, food culture, hospitality industry, etc.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Catering  , Cookery  , Cuisine  , Culture  , Food and Nutrition  , Healthcare  , Ingredient  , Journal  , Magazine  , Recipe

 

 

Gale OneFile: News

Gale OneFile: News provides full-text articles of English newspapers and magazines, as well as newswires and broadcast transcripts from around the world. It enables users to quickly search for articles by name of the newspaper or magazine, headline, date, author and section, or conduct a search with other options available.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Arts  , Business  , Entertainment  , History  , Magazine  , News  , Politics  , Science  , Sports  , Technology

 

 

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep provides information on college planning, undergraduate and graduate programs, scholarship application and career development. Practice tests for college entrance examinations and international examinations, as well as advice on resumes, cover letters, interviews and social networking are also available. List of tests is available here.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Accredited Schools  , Career  , College Planning  , Course  , Education  , GMAT  , GRE  , International Examinations  , Overseas Studies  , SAT

 

 

Global Books In Print

Global Books In Print is an online database that contains records of bibliographic descriptions and ordering information. These records contain in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming titles, which include books, e-books, audio books and videos. Also included in this database is valuable information such as professional reviews, tables of contents, full-text previews, cover images, author biographies, award information, abstracts and annotations.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Bibliographical Description  , Book Searching  , ISBN  , Library Science  , Publisher  , Reference Tools  , Supplier

 

 

INFOBANK

This online database provides a range of business information about China, including Chinese economic news, laws and regulations, statistical data, information on listed companies, financial data, enterprise information, proclamation of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, information on governmental organisations, etc.

Available at: City Hall Public Library , Hong Kong Central Library , Kowloon Public Library , Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Public Library , Sha Tin Public Library , Tuen Mun Public Library , Tsuen Wan Public Library , Remote Access

Tag: Analyse Report  , CEPA  , Enterprise  , Government  , Industry Report  , Investment  , Journal  , Regulation  , Tax  , WTO

 

 

International Newsstream

This database provides information of worldwide newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, trade journals and wire feeds in different languages.  Apart from gaining access to news stories and information on sports, business and arts around the world, users can also conduct full-text search for different topics.

Available at: City Hall Public Library , Hong Kong Central Library , Kowloon Public Library , Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Public Library , Sha Tin Public Library , Tuen Mun Public Library , Tsuen Wan Public Library

Tag: Arts  , Business  , History  , Magazine  , News  , Politics  , Science  , Technology  , Trade

 

 

International Newsstream: South China Morning Post

This database provides the citations and abstracts of the articles of the South China Morning Post from 1993 to 2023. Users can use multiple options such as headlines, publication date and document type to narrow down the scope of search.

Available at: City Hall Public Library , Hong Kong Central Library , Kowloon Public Library , Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Public Library , Sha Tin Public Library , Tuen Mun Public Library , Tsuen Wan Public Library

Tag: Arts  , Business  , Entertainment  , History  , News  , Politics  , SCMP  , Social Issues  , Technology

 

 

Kiss Holiday

"Kiss Holiday" is an interactive multimedia Chinese database based on the "Kiss Holiday" series published by the Chin-Chin Publications Ltd in Taiwan. It aims to introduce to children the history and underlying meaning of 13 major festivals in a lively manner through animated stories, games and handicrafts, thus enabling them to understand festive customs from around the world. Parents and teachers can make use of the "Tutorial Area" to help their children learn more about these festivals. Dialogues of the stories are in Putonghua.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Celebration  , Christmas  , Culture  , Customs  , Dragon Boat Festival  , Festivals  , Lunar New Year  , Mid-Autumn Festival  , Teaching  , Valentine's Day

 

 

Kono Libraries

Kono Libraries provides a wide range of best-selling and predominantly Chinese e-magazines covering various topics such as art, business and finance, entertainment, health, language, fashion and lifestyle, parenting and family, science and technology, sports, social issues as well as travel. This database also provides electronic magazines in other languages, including Japanese, Korean, English, French, Vietnamese, and Swedish. Both current and back issues are available for online reading or downloading to mobile devices for offline access anytime and anywhere.Title list is available here.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Applied Science  , Business  , Design  , Economics  , Entertainment  , Full-text Magazine  , Health  , Language Learning  , Travel

 

 

Miss Humblebee's Academy

Miss Humblebee’s Academy is a fun and interactive learning platform mainly for pre-school children. It provides guided learning for young children to progress in the curriculum by introducing key concepts in art & music, language & literacy, mathematics, science & social studies, and social and emotional learning. Apart from interactive information, the platform also provides music videos, e-books, games and offline STEAM hands-on activities for young children to explore the fun of learning. The content of the platform is narrated in English. By creating user accounts, parents or teachers can keep track of young children's learning progress via the platform.

Available at: All Hong Kong Public Libraries (excluding mobile libraries) , Remote Access

Tag: Mathematics  , Preschool children  , Social Science  , STEAM  , Teaching  , Video