Fong Sum Wood Library

Issue 25

New and Significant Resources

New Databases

1. InCites (Essential Science Indicators (ESI))

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps you identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. ESI surveys more than 11,000 journals from around the world to rank authors, institutions, countries, and journals in 22 broad fields based on publication and citation performance. Data covers a rolling 10-year period and includes bimonthly updates to rankings and citation counts. 

2. Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI))

The Foundations module of AM Research The Foundations module of AM Research Methods introduces key approaches and methodologies of working with source materials. It provides foundational guidance on where students can find historical documents, the questions they might want to post, and how to conduct their research and analysis of materials with practical advice and instruction from experts worldwide.

3. Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE))

Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully covers major journals across 178 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.  Indexes over 9,500 of the world’s most impactful journals across 182 scientific disciplines, from 1900 to the present. 

4. IEEE Xplore Digital Library
IEEE Xplore Digital Library is the single source for more than 30% of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science. Provide access to the IEEE’s core collection of engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals and the world’s leading technology conference proceedings. Access to over 195 journals and 800 proceedings. 

 

 

 

 

5. Global Science Press
GSP aims to publish state-of-the-art research, to provide the most professional platform for scientists to contribute their latest discoveries, and to connect scientists globally in the areas of, but not limited to mathematics, chemistry, physics & computational sciences. All of the GSP journals have contributions from world-renowned scientists, with Communications in Computational Physics rated as one of the top Mathematical Physics journals in 2021. The majority of our journals rank in the Q1/Q2 quartile in the SCImago Journal Rank. Access to 15 core math journals.

6. Emerald Insight
Emerald specialises in management and social sciences subject areas and has provided journal content focused on mission-led research for more than 50 years. Emerald publishes highly topical research across 310 journals, which are authored by leading academics and researchers from across the globe. Expand access to full collections of 309 journal titles. 

 

7. Oxford Handbooks Online
Access via Oxford Academics. Provides Oxford Handbooks Online in philosophy, covering various philosophers, schools of thought, and sub-fields in philosophy, published between 2019-2023. 
8. Oxford Journals (Humanities & Social Sciences Collections)
Access via Oxford Academic. Provide access to over 190 electronic journals published by Oxford related to humanities and social sciences. 

9. Springer Journals (Humanities & Social Sciences Collections)
Access via SpringerLINK. Provide access to over 2,000 electronic journals published by Springer related to humanities and social sciences. 

 

10. 中華經典古籍庫 (增購第十一期)
《中華經典古籍庫》收錄的資源涵蓋經、史、子、集各部，包含二十四史、通鑒、新編諸子集成、清人十三經注疏、史料筆記叢刊、古典文學基本叢書、佛教典籍選刊等經典系列，資源保留了圖書完整的前言、注釋、校勘等整理成果，資料準確，內容權威。現增購第十一期，館藏現存第一至第十一期。 

11. JSTOR

Expanded access to 27 collections, including more than 2,000 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences: 

Arts & Sciences I-XV Collections 
Business IV Collection 
Hebrew Journals Collection 
Ireland Collection 
Life Sciences Collection 
Lives of Literature 
Public Health Collection 
Security Studies Collection 
Sustainability Collection 
Global Plants 
Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa 
World Heritage Sites: Africa 
19th Century British Pamphlets