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ClinicalKey
The world’s first clinical insight engine, ClinicalKey offers faster, smarter access to relevant online clinical answers by drawing from the largest collection of peer-reviewed and evidence-based resources, which includes more than 800 medical e-books, 500 top journals, 800 evidence-based medicine monographs, and over 9,000 procedural videos covering major medical and surgical specialties.
EMBASE
1980 - present   
EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research.
EMBASE Classic
1947 - 1979   
This 32-year backfile of EMBASE indexes more than 1.8 million records from the biomedical and pharmacological literature and is drawn from 43 Excerpta Medica abstract print journals published between 1947-1979. It covers approximately 3,400 international journals such as Cancer, Cardiovascular Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, as well as Adverse Reactions.
Essential Science Indicators
1993-   
Provides national rankings on the most cited scientist, institutional (university, corporate, government research lab), and journal citations.
Global Health
1973 - present   
Includes comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature as well as significant unique content particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.
Health & Medical Complete
1986 - present   
Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles in the disciplines of medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others with over 1,250 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE indexing.
Health Sciences : A SAGE Full-Text Collection
1982 - present   
Includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies covering the subject areas of nursing, social studies of health, health services & administration, community / public health nursing, qualitative research, cultural studies, child psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, adult health nursing, public health, public policy & public administration, health psychology, aging and gerontology, health communication, sociology of the family, etc.
JAMAevidence
JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
MEDLINE
1950 - present   
OvidSP
EBSCOhost
US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts currently from approximately 5,000 biomedical journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage extends back to 1948 in which OLDMEDLINE records are included.
OLDMEDLINE
1948 - 1965   
These are OLDMEDLINE records which represent approximately 1,888,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals in the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1948 through 1965.
PreMEDLINE
Contains "in-process" citation information and abstracts for the most recent articles. After adding Medical Subject Headings (MESH) and other indexing data, the indexed PreMEDLINE records would be updated into MEDLINE and the original PreMEDLINE records would be deleted.
ProQuest Social Science Journals
1994 - present   
Includes over  560 titles on hundreds of social sciences topics, including: Addiction studies, Urban studies, Family studies, International relations.
PsycArticles
Provides full text access to 70 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
PsycINFO
1806 - present   
Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Science Citation Index at Web of Science
1965 - present   
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of science from over 6,650 leading journals. Includes all cited references captured from indexed articles and supports cited reference search.
Scopus
1823 - present   
Includes the abstracts and references of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals across different subject disciplines.
Social Work Abstracts
1977 - present   
Contains more than 45,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, and more.
Sociological Abstracts
1952 - present   
Provides abstracts of over 1,800 international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Sociology : A SAGE Full-Text Collection
1953 - present   
Includes 36 journals on Contemporary, Comparative, and Classical Sociology, Consumer Culture, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Labour Studies.
中國期刊全文數據庫 China Journal Net (CJN)
1915 - present   
Provides over 8,700 journals published in China, subjects including natural science, engineering, agriculture, philosophy, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
台灣電子期刊服務網 Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
Includes more than 700 periodicals published in Taiwan. Its subject ranges from humanities, natural science, applied science, medical and life science to social science.
期刊文獻資訊網
Includes Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System, Guide to Periodicals Published in Taiwan, News Information System, and Index to Chinese Culture Studies, 1946-1979.
萬方數據 WanFang Data
Provides information about China including the full-text of journals, scientific and technical information, business information, laws and regulations, theses and standards.
萬方數據. 中華醫學會數字化期刊
1998 - present   
Covers 115 full-text journals published by the Chinese Medical Association from 1998 onwards.
Journal Citation Reports. Science Edition
1998 - present   
Contains bibliometric analysis of over 5,900 leading international journals in science and technology and shows the relative importance of titles within their subject area.
Science Citation Index at Web of Science
1965 - present   
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of science from over 6,650 leading journals. Includes all cited references captured from indexed articles and supports cited reference search.
Digital Dissertation Consortium = 數位化論文典藏聯盟
Contains the full-text of more than 150,000 full-text dissertations from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses subscribed by Taiwan and HK consortium members.
Dissertations & Theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong (Dissertations & Theses@CUHK)
1997 - present   
Includes the full-text of CUHK doctoral dissertations since 1997.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Web version of Dissertation Abstracts)
abstracts 1861 - ; 24 page preview 1997 - present   
Index and abstract to doctoral dissertations and master theses from North American universities as well as from selected non-North American universities.
萬方數據. 中國學位論文庫 WanFang Data. Chinese Dissertations Database
Contains doctoral & masters theses from Universities in Mainland China.
Apabi
Over 60,000 e-books.
Books@Ovid
Accessible via OvidSP, Books@Ovid covers major clinical, nursing and drug electronic textbooks in a wide range of subject areas.
ClinicalKey
The world’s first clinical insight engine, ClinicalKey offers faster, smarter access to relevant online clinical answers by drawing from the largest collection of peer-reviewed and evidence-based resources, which includes more than 800 medical e-books, 500 top journals, 800 evidence-based medicine monographs, and over 9,000 procedural videos covering major medical and surgical specialties.
EBSCOhost: eBook Collection
Contains a searchable collection of over 45,000 electronic books in a wide range of subject areas.
JAMAevidence
JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
Oxford Scholarship Online. Neuroscience
Contains eBook on Neuroscience and Psychopathology.
Oxford Scholarship Online. Public Health and Epidemiology
The collection contains more than 100 select titles which critically discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations worldwide.
ScienceDirect Books
2006 - 2008   
Contains electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information with a wide variety of features and content.
Springer E-books
The collection includes online access to more than 3,000 newly released scientific, technical and medical (STM) books each year. Now, more than 2,700 titles related to medicine are subscribed.
Factiva
A business news information service provides access to nearly 6,500 newspapers, magazines, wire services, and academic and trade journals. It also includes profiles of public companies covering financial data.
Library PressDisplay
Current 90 days   
Offers access to over 1,700 newspapers published around the world in full-colour, full-page format. Provides up to a 90-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire backfile.
WiseNews
1998 (varies) - present   
Provides access to newspapers, magazines, journals and newswires published in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Includes all local newspapers.
Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence summarizes evidence from high-quality systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials about the benefits and harms on over 3,000 interventions in the prevention and treatment of over 570 globally important and common clinical conditions. Evidence is presented in the context of clinical questions or decision points, and report only on those outcomes that matter to patients. The reviews are continuously updated and integrated with a range of additional Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) resources to provide access to the very latest and most relevant medical knowledge for treatment decisions.
Cochrane Library
1996 - present   
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. These databases are: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
EBM Reviews: ACP Journal Club
1991 - present   
It is the electronic full text of two print journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the BMJ Group. Studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant to review are selected from top clinical journals and summarized in well-structured abstracts with commentaries by clinical experts.
EBM Reviews: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR)
Includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases and other published resources. The records include the title of the article, information on where it was published and, in many cases, the abstract.
EBM Reviews: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting and includes the full text of systematic reviews.
EBM reviews: Cochrane Methodology Register
Presents a bibliography of publications that report on methods used when conducting controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings. Articles are taken from MEDLINE and from hand-searches.
EBM Reviews: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Complements The Cochrane Reviews by quality-assessing and summarising reviews which have not been carried out by The Cochrane Collaboration. DARE is unique in that it is the only database to contain abstracts of systematic reviews that have been quality assessed.
EBM Reviews: Health Technology Assessment
Brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world.
EBM Reviews: NHS Economic Evaluation Database
NHS EED assists decision-makers by systematically identifying economic evaluations from around the world, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
ClinicalKey
The world’s first clinical insight engine, ClinicalKey offers faster, smarter access to relevant online clinical answers by drawing from the largest collection of peer-reviewed and evidence-based resources, which includes more than 800 medical e-books, 500 top journals, 800 evidence-based medicine monographs, and over 9,000 procedural videos covering major medical and surgical specialties.
JAMAevidence
JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
BMJ Learning
An innovative learning resource that allows users to choose from its 300 interactive evidence based modules with real life case scenarios to test your skills and improve your learning.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
1985 - present   
Provides access to questionnaires, interview schedules, coding schemes/ manuals, tests in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. .
PsycTESTS
1910 - present   
PsycTESTS is a research database providing downloadable access to some psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information. Most records link to a variety of materials describing the test in peer-reviewed literature, technical reports, or dissertations. Some records also include the actual test instrument.

 
 
 
 
Databases by Major Web Gateway


   Blackwell Reference Online
   CUHK Examination Papers Database
   EBSCOhost
   IEEE Xplore
   ISI Web of Knowledge
   JSTOR
   OvidSP
   Oxford Reference Online Premium
   Oxford Scholarship Online
   Project MUSE
   ProQuest 5000
   WRDS
   中國期刊全文數據庫 China Journal Net (CJN)
   萬方數據 WanFang Data
   香港中文期刊論文索引 HKInChiP