OverDrive Magazines

OverDrive Magazines offers a wide range of English e-magazines covering topics such as art, architecture, music, business, cooking, health, travel and outdoor, etc. This database also provides electronic magazines in other languages, including French, Spanish and German. Patrons can read both current and back issues of e-magazines online or download them to their mobile devices anytime and anywhere.

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

Tag: Architecture  , Arts  , Business  , Cooking  , Health  , Music  , Travel

 

 

Performing Arts Periodicals Database

It provides an unparalleled resource for performing arts on the web, with indexes and abstracts of around 400 international periodicals plus the full text of over 160 journals from 1864 onwards, covering a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.

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

Tag: Bibliography  , Biography  , Chronology  , Circus Performance  , Dance  , Drama  , Film  , Journal  , Magazine  , Magic  , Musical Theatre  , Opera  , Pantomime  , Performance Art  , Puppetry  , Sound Recording  , Speech  , Stagecraft  , Statistics  , Storytelling  , Television

 

 

PKUlaw

PKUlaw is a collection of bilingual databases of legal information of Mainland China. It provides information on laws and regulations, cases heard and adjudication documents officially released by different levels of courts, as well as law journals of Mainland China.

Available at: Hong Kong Central Library , City Hall Public Library

Tag: Judgments  , International Treaties  , Journal  , Judicial Cases  , Jurisprudence  , Law  , Legal Proceedings  , Regulation

 

 

ProQuest ABI/INFORM Collection

This collection comprises three business and financial databases, namely ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Dateline, featuring thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economic periodicals such as The Economist, as well as country and industry-focused reports.

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

Tag: Accounting  , Business  , Conference Proceeding  , Corporate Strategy  , Economics  , Finance  , Journal  , Magazine  , Management  , Marketing  , News  , Theses  , Trade  , Video

 

 

ProQuest Business Collection

It combines the seven most popular ProQuest business and financial databases, which contain journals, scholarly dissertations and working papers on business and economics in full text, as well as trade publications, market research reports, analyst reports, and leading business journals.

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

Tag: Accounting  , Asia  , Auditing  , Banking  , Business  , Country Research  , Demographics  , Economics  , Entrepreneurship  , Europe  , Finance  , Financial Institutions  , Human Resources  , Industry Research  , Insurance  , International Business  , Investment  , Law  , Management  , Market Research  , Marketing  , Operation  , Real Estate  , Risk Management  , Tax

 

 

ProQuest Career & Technical Education Database

It provides employment information. Subjects such as vocation and profession, trade and industry, technical resources as well as recruitment information are included. Users can gain access to information on computer science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retailing, accounting, graphic design, photography and other professions for research purposes.

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

Tag: Accounting  , Building Trades  , Career  , Computing Science  , Course  , Education  , Graphic Design  , Healthcare  , Journal  , Photography  , Retail  , Sales

 

 

ProQuest Databases Services

It is an integrated collection of databases covering arts, business, health and medicine, history, language and literature, science and technology, social sciences, etc. It provides access to current and historical information from all kinds of reference resources such as newspapers, journals, theses, reports, charts and tables, photographs and statistics.

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

Tag: Arts  , Business  , Career  , Computing  , Conference Proceedings  , Food and Nutrition  , Health  , History  , Humanities  , Journals  , Magazines  , Management  , Medicine  , Music  , News  , Public Policy  , Religion  , Research  , Science  , Social Science  , Student Resources  , Theses  , Videos

 

 

ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database

This collection provides a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneurs.

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

Tag: Business  , Entrepreneurship  , Human Resources  , Industry Research  , Management  , Market Research  , Marketing  , Operation

 

 

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post

This database provides the full text of nearly a hundred years’ back issues of the South China Morning Post starting from 1903 in the form of full-page image.  Users can search not only news articles but also advertisements, editorials, comic strips and photographs.

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

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

 

 

ProQuest Medical & Health Databases

It comprises three databases, which offer definitive research information on major clinical and healthcare disciplines, allowing access to publications including scholarly dissertations, journals, news magazines, newspaper articles in full text as well as video clips. These databases are useful resources for students, researchers and health professionals, who may gain easy access to reliable medical and health information from trustworthy medical publishers.

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

Tag: Biostatistics  , Dentistry  , Dermatology  , Dietetics  , Disaster Preparedness  , Drug Abuse and Alcoholism  , Environmental Health Science  , Epidemiology  , Eye Care  , Food and Nutrition  , Industrial Health and Safety  , Maternal and Child Health  , Midwifery  , Nursery and Nursing  , Obesity  , Occupational Health and Safety  , Physical Fitness and Hygiene  , Psychiatry  , Sports Injury  , Surgery  , Women’s Health