AccessScience

The AccessScience features the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology and weekly articles on the latest breaking news. It covers all areas of science and technology plus full-text features of biographies, news, learning resources, study guides and many other related sites.

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

Tag: Agriculture  , Astronomy  , Biography  , Encyclopedia  , Engineering  , Mathematics  , News  , Science  , Technology  , Video

 

 

Gale In Context: Elementary

It is a database on liberal studies for children aged between 4 and 11, covering various topics in arts, people, sports, science, etc., and pairing with kid-friendly magazines and news articles, images and educational videos. Its read along function facilitates English learning for early readers.

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

Tag: Arts  , Literature  , Nonfiction  , People  , Science  , Social Studies  , Sports  , Teaching  , Video

 

 

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

 

 

Naxos Video Library

It is the world's leading video library on performing arts, which offers an extensive streaming of full-length videos from the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and prestigious artists. It comprises a wide range of programmes in different genres including ballet performances, educational films and documentaries, Hannover International Violin Competitions, live concerts, music lectures and master classes, musical journeys, operas, theatres and introduction of different schools of masterpieces in painting. Some videos also provide programme notes and lyrics with screen subtitle options in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

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

Tag: Hannover International Violin Competitions  , Music Lecture  , Orchestra  , Video

 

 

Newtonkids Digital Museum

It is an online collection of video materials from Taiwan for students and people who are interested to learn more about our Earth from various aspects, including animals, plants, ecology protection, weather and climate, natural landscapes, and earth science, etc. It provides about 300 video clips with Chinese narration and text description.

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

Tag: Animal  , Climatology  , Earth Science  , Fish  , Insect  , Landscape  , Mountain  , Park  , Plant  , Video

 

 

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

 

 

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: Nonfiction  , Stories  , Teaching  , Video