This collection contains miscellaneous papers and reports from the British legation and consulates in China. Specifically, it comprises a catalogue of embassy archives, 1727 to 1859; trade and intelligence reports; records of legal proceedings; miscellaneous papers, some in Chinese, of the Chinese Secretary's Office; an entry book of papers relating to the East India Company in China; claims arising from Sino-Japanese hostilities, 1927 to 1940; accounts; circulars, etc.
This collection offers more than 27,500 business e-books selected to assist students and scholars with various business research, special projects and entrepreneurial needs. A key resource for academic and business school libraries, eBook Business Collection encompasses a variety of topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.
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More than 27,500 e-books related to the study of business
This collection of popular IT e-books helps researchers broaden their knowledge of the IT industry to help support decision-making, inform product design and promote best practices. This robust collection includes more than 4,400 e-books covering a wide range of topics from content management and desktop applications to graphic design and multimedia
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More than 4,400 e-books related to the study of information technology (IT)
PEP-Web contains the premier journals and classic books in psychoanalysis. The PEP-Web Archive is updated annually in January with new books and journal titles, and current journal issues are added as they are published.
Embargoed Content: Due to contracts with publishers, there is a three to five year embargo on most current content. For the embargoed years, only abstracts and article summaries may be read on PEP-Web. However, the full text of all years is still completely searchable, making it easy to find current and relevant articles. To see the list of journal embargo dates go here.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Under this collection, there is a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai’s former International Settlement. This self-governing area was administered not by the Chinese but by the international group of merchants and bankers who paid the taxes and controlled the municipal council. The Special Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Police was charged with providing an orderly environment for Shanghai's foreign trade and commerce. Coverage: 1894-1945.
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Search/browse/download/print
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Primary source of scanned articles
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Date range of documents: 1894-1945; Reproduction of the originals from the U.S. National Archives.
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile) provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile) provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Click here to access PQDT Open. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and it is expected to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.
PressReader can bring the students unlimited access to over 7,000 trusted newspapers and magazines. They offer quality content from more than 120 countries in over 60 different languages. Users will stay connected to what’s happening locally and overseas. Moreover, they can find some relevant articles, credible sources, and information to back up their research.
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Users can access PressReader via Android or iOS mobile app
The Social Sciences Collection for journals is a subset of the Premium Collection. It is a collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the social sciences. Building on MUSE's strengths in international relations and in aspects of political science and economics, this collection is designed to meet the needs of special libraries such as thinktanks, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and related organizations. Of the new journal titles added to MUSE each year, the best of those with a clear social science focus are added to the Social Sciences Collection.
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today. This database provides nearly 12,000 journals with over 9,000 available in full text. It also provides access to over 800 full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers; Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more; Concise business information from nearly 9,000 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries.
It boasts over 160 subjects including core subject areas such as:
Business and economics
Health and medical
News and world affairs
Science
Education
Technology
Humanities
Social Sciences
Psychology
Literature
Law
Women's studies, and more
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT - Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT - Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
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Searchable citations
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Basic Search
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Publication Search
Cite / Email/ Print/ Save
Cloud Saving
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PDF Downloading
Generative AI Research Assistant
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Dissertations and Theses from 700 leading academic institutions worldwide
Once logged in, your borrowed eBook loans will sync across ALL your registered devices.
Users can register the app on up to 6 devices.
Research Assistant is available only on the eBook Central web platform. This feature is not available on the mobile reader app.
Any ebooks already on loan in Adobe Digital Editions will sync automatically - no re-download needed.
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Ebook Central is an all-in-one ebook platform for research, teaching, and learning. It brings together content from nearly every publisher into a unified experience, allowing students and teachers to easily discover and use the ebook content they need.
In addition, Ebook Central Research Assistant is an AI tool that is now enabled on eligible books and can be found on the left side of the screen for PDFs, or on the right side of the screen for EPUBs. This AI tool helps you assess literature relevance and easily review, analyze, and explore new ideas.
Now, Ebook Central platform has been upgraded and launched the new Ebook Central Reader App, replacing Adobe Digital Editions as the main full-book download service. The new Reader app allows you to read eBooks downloaded from the Ebook Central platform on your desktop and mobile devices with a streamlined, secure and accessible experience.
Features:
Instant access the largest collection of scholarly ebooks across all academic disciplines.
Discover, evaluate, and access titles easily with intuitive search and user-centred design.
Users can read the loaned eBooks via the mobile app Ebook Central in anywhere.
Integrated with Ebook Central Research Assistant, it helps you complete research assignments more efficiently, gain a better understanding of complex topics and expand research by literature relevance.
New Ebook Central Reader App offers you secure and seamless access across all desktop and mobile devices with an intuitive reading experience.
This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
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email / print / save articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
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Basic Search
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Publication Search
Cite / Email/ Print/ Save
Cloud Saving
Citation Export
PDF Downloading
Generative AI Research Assistant
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Journals/dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings, etc.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1832 - 1953
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Content is searchable, including editorials, cartoons, advertisements, and classified ads.
This collection is cross searchable with all of ProQuest’s historical and current newspapers.
This collection supports searching by article types, keyword, date ranges, specific dates, author and more.
Users can focus on relevant information quickly with hit-term highlighting and download articles and images in PDF format.
ProQuest Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, nearly 240 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
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Print / Save / Email articles, abstract / full-text available / page image available, functions: marked articles, etc.
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Basic Search
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Publication Search
Cite / Email/ Print/ Save
Cloud Saving
Citation Export
PDF Downloading
Generative AI Research Assistant
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Poetry, drama, prose, journal, biography, criticism and reference resources, etc.
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.
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Basic Search
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Publication Search
Cite / Email/ Print/ Save
Cloud Saving
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Generative AI Research Assistant
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Journal, books, dissertations, conference paper and working papers
Journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The contents are covered from 1894 to Current
Provides access to the literature in psychology and related disciplines. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it has more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters. The contents are covered from 1806 to Current.
APA PsycTherapy is an APA database of psychotherapy videos. These experts work with participants on various therapeutic topics, providing viewers with direct insights into clinical practice.
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Includes live sessions from today's leading professionals.
Cover more than cover more than 140 approaches, such as integrated behavioural health care, cognitive behaviour therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Synchronized transcripts which allow you to search for precise moments in therapy
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Searching Basic Search, Advanced Search and Cross-databases Search
Browsing Titles, Therapeutic Approaches, Therapists and Therapy Topics
ProQuest Research Assistant Help you quickly evaluate and understand documents and discover related research.
Transcript Translation
Full Text PDF Downloading
Citation Export Export to EndNote, Zotero, Citavi, Excel etc.
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-IV-TRR and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Much more than individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable users to quickly target all the information needed.
Library subscribes the DSM Premium collection, which covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, the latest research - all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.
System Requirement:
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 (for best results) or 800 x 600 (minimum supported resolution).
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PDA downloads available for most book chapters/ email/print/alerts
Psychology (Gale OneFile) provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Psychotherapy.net (Full Collection) is a complete collection of psychotherapy & counseling videos. The Full Collection will expand as new titles are regularly added throughout the subscription period.
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Search/browse/click on any word to play video at that point/print or download transcript
The PubMed database includes multiple free resources supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature.
There are more than 38 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
In 2020, the database has updated to a new user interface. The updated interface includes a responsive design to improve the mobile experience as well as improved search capabilities using the best-match sort.
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Access the same trusted database of more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature.
Use the default filters or customize the filter menu to meet your needs.
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