Fong Sum Wood Library

Issue 30

Discover Your Next Great Read - New / Expanded Collection Highlights

New Databases

  1. 1980s Culture and Society
    It is an eclectic and multi-faceted resource compiled from archival collections housed across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Capturing diverse perspectives, materials produced by grassroots organisations and under-represented groups are presented alongside government records and mainstream media to showcase the key social, cultural, and political concerns of the decade.

     

  2. Bloomsbury Collections
    More than 900 new titles have been added to our Bloomsbury eBook collection, enhancing our coverage across the arts, humanities, and social sciences

     

  3. Cambridge Core
    Over 12,000 new Cambridge Core eBooks are now available, strengthening our collection with extensive academic content across all major subject areas.
     

  4. Film Secession
    It is an immersive streaming platform offering curated film exhibitions and rare cinematic works. You need to register a personal account using your Lingnan email address to explore the ideas and artistic currents that have shaped different filmmakers, periods, and art forms, with access to films from archives and studios worldwide.

     

  5. The Hongkong News Online
    Published from December 1941 to August 1945, this English-language newspaper traces Japan's progress from colonial overlord to surrender, providing a unique primary source for understanding Hong Kong's wartime experience.

     

  6. Hongkong Weekly Press Online

    The collection offers full-text access to 15,000 pages of the influential English-language weekly. The collection documents a period of watershed incidents and unrest in British Hong Kong during the 1920s, including the May 30th Movement and the subsequent Canton–Hong Kong strike.
     

  7. IEEE Xplore
    It provides access to the 2026 frontlist of the collections below:
    -MIT Press eBooks Library - The Computing and Engineering Collection
    -IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library
    -IEEE-Wiley AI eBooks Library
     

  8. IET Books
    The addition of the IET Books 2026 Frontlist to our collections. This annual collection features new and forthcoming titles from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, covering emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, renewable energy, advanced communications, and sustainable engineering.
     

  9. KoganPage+
    Kogan Page+ has been added to our collection, providing unlimited access to over 1,200 business ebooks across key subject areas including management, marketing, finance, HR, and logistics.
     

  10. Oxford Handbooks Online
    Our Oxford Handbooks Online collection has been expanded to include new and updated handbooks in Literature, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Sociology (2024–2026), as well as the 2026 collection of Social Policy & Social Work. 
     

  11. Oxford Scholarship Online
    The Oxford Scholarship Online: Political Science 2025/2026 Collection has been added to our e-book holdings, providing access to a growing collection of scholarly political science titles from Oxford University Press.
     

  12. Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
    This digital archive offers access to thousands of colour images of manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and memorabilia documenting the social, political, and cultural changes of the postwar era. It includes materials on student protests, civil rights, the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and the rise of rock and roll, drawn from major archives in Britain and America.
     

  13. Sage Catalyst International
    Sage Catalyst has been added to our collection, providing unlimited, university-wide access to over 600 premium social science e-textbooks across 17 key disciplines, hosted on the VitalSource Bookshelf platform.
     

  14. Springer Nature Link
    Over 12,000 new titles have been added to our Springer Nature eBook collections across seven subject areas, including Computer Science, Behavioral Science & Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, Literature, Cultural & Media Studies, Political Science & International Studies, and Philosophy & Religion.
     

  15. 漢籍全文資料庫
    資料庫由中央研究院歷史語言研究所建置，是目前最具規模、資料統整最為嚴謹的中文全文資料庫之一。內容涵蓋經、史、子、集四部，以史部為主，累計收錄歷代典籍逾 1,400 種，總字數超過 8 億字。
     

  16. 漢珍知識網. 報紙篇
    收錄日治時期臺灣最具代表性的兩份報刊—《臺灣日日新報》（1898–1944）及其漢文版《漢文臺灣日日新報》（1905–1911），為研究日治時期臺灣社會、經濟、文化與政治變遷的核心史料。資料庫提供標題索引、全文檢索、影像瀏覽及標題定位功能。
     

  17. 近代歷史文獻庫 Modern History Archive
    The Modern History Archive (近代歷史文獻庫) has been added to our collection, offering three historical English-language newspapers: London and China Telegraph, The Far Eastern Review, and The Chinese-English Intelligence for the study of modern China.
     

  18. 中華經典古籍庫 (增購第十三期)
    《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。現增購第十三期，現有館藏涵蓋第一至第十三期。