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: Birthday  , Children's Day  , Ching Ming Festival  , Christmas  , Customs  , Dragon Boat Festival  , Father's Day  , Festivals  , Games  , Graduation  , Halloween  , Handicrafts  , History  , Lunar New Year  , Mid-Autumn Festival  , Mother's Day  , New Year  , Nursery Rhymes  , Poetry  , Stories  , Teachers  , 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: Arts  , Business  , Entertainment  , Environment  , Full-text Magazine  , Journal  , Language Learning  , Science  , Sports  , Technology

 

 

OmniFile Full Text Mega

OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition provides a wide range of research resources.  It contains full-text articles dating back to 1972 as well as abstracts and indexing from publications as far back as 1909.  The subjects covered include applied sciences, art, education, humanities, law, social sciences, technology, etc.

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

Tag: Applied Science  , Arts  , Conference Proceeding  , Education  , Humanities  , Journal  , Law  , Review  , Social Science  , SWOT Analysis  , Technology  , Theses

 

 

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

 

 

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 Research Library

Users can search various highly-respected scholarly journals, business publications, magazines and newspapers covering over a hundred academic disciplines. It provides one-stop access to a wide range of general reference materials.

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

Tag: Business  , Education  , Journal  , Literature  , Magazine  , News  , Politics  , Psychology  , Research

 

 

Scholastic GO!

Scholastic GO! is an English e-database of encyclopedias. It covers a wide range of subjects including arts, social sciences, geography, history, philosophy, religion, sports and entertainment, science and technology, etc.

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

Tag: Almanac  , Arts  , Atlas  , Debate  , Encyclopedia  , Geography  , History  , Land  , Map  , News  , Philosophy  , Religion  , Science  , Social Science  , Technology  , Thesaurus  , Timeline

 

 

TumbleBookLibrary

TumbleBookLibrary is an interactive English database of animated e-Books selected from well-established publishers of children books around the world.  It includes animated talking storybooks, graphic novels, non-fiction books, math stories, audio books in other foreign languages and National Geographic videos , supplemented with puzzles and games, which are suitable for children of all ages.  It contains rich resources which help support paired reading in English and enhance children's language skills.

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

Tag: Games  , Nonfiction  , Stories  , Teaching  , Tumble  , Video