Electronic Resources

The Library collects a number of reference databases in CD-ROM format and subscribes to various fulltext, citation, index, abstracts and statistical databases. All electronic resources are accessible via the Library web page. And most of the electronic databases and e-journals can be accessed off campus by Institute / College students and staff. Remote access requires authentication through a valid login account and must be via the dial-up service or VPN service. For details, please view the Information Technology Services Centre(ITSC) webpage.

Major Electronic Resources

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for over 1,000 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection
This collection which currently offers online access to a growing collection of more than 550 volumes from more than 70 book series titles. Featuring relevant, international and trusted content in many fields including strategy, economics, accounting and finance and human resource management. This collection reinforces Emerald’s position as the world’s leading publisher in management research.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
A powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopaedias, magazines, videos, and web sites.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 828,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 490 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Provides fulltext access to news, legal and financial information. It contains news from about 5,000 English language sources, including US and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters and trade journals. Corporate profiles, country profiles and business directories are also included.

SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 16,800 conference papers.

Westlaw International
An online legal research service which provides access to law journals and reviews, and law reports from United States, Canada, United Kingdom and European Union. It also contains all cases from Hong Kong, Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest, Hong Kong Law Reports and Hong Kong Digest.

中國資訊行 China Infobank
An online service covers China's news, business and legal information. China InfoBank offers access to a number of fulltext Chinese language databases covering a wide range of information such as business news from local newspapers (1992- ), business journals and government survey reports (1995- ), news and reports of publicly listed companies (1993- ), China central and municipal laws and regulations (1949- ), structure and functions of Chinese government agencies as well as biographies on leading government officials and famous personalities.

慧科電子剪報 WiseNews
An electronic news clipping service which provides users quick access to the news from over 10 local Chinese and English newspapers and news from China, Taiwan, Macau and United States.

Other Electronic Resources

Some of other useful databases and reference tools subscribed by the Library are: