Finding Comprehensive Databases
Library's databases can help you to easily find authoritative and credible resources for your assignments and projects!
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Academic Search Ultimate (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is a multidisciplinary full-text databases, offering an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more. It includes more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research.
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CNKI Journals This link opens in a new window
China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) is a database edited and published by the China Academic Journals (CD-ROM) Electronic Magazine House, with the full-text database of "China Academic Journals (CD-ROM Edition)" at its core. The CNKI Academic Journals Database collects the full-text documents of academic journals (including English versions) that are publicly published and distributed in China. It encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including basic and applied basic research, technical research, engineering research, engineering and project management, technology development, practical engineering technology, industry technology development and review, advanced popular science, and discipline education and teaching journals. It covers extensive fields such as science, engineering, social sciences, electronic information technology, agriculture, and medicine.
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Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window
As an open access database, the Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Clicking "Explore" anywhere on the multicolored Discipline Wheel opens a Commons page for a particular academic discipline. From here, you may browse popular and recently added articles, search all content, or "Follow" authors and publications to receive monthly email updates on new work in that field.
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DUXIU Academic Search This link opens in a new window
Duxiu Academic Search is a vast knowledge system composed of a huge number of books and literature resources, supporting the search of all disciplines' books, periodicals, newspapers, conference papers, and theses. It is also part of the interlibrary loan service of the library, providing users with document delivery services. Based on a vast collection of Chinese books and full-text materials, Duxiu Knowledge Base is a Chinese literature resource service platform, integrating multiple functions such as literature search, trial reading, document delivery, and reference consultation.
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Humanities International Complete (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete database is an invaluable resource for scholars, experts, teachers, and students in the humanities. It covers a wide range of content in global literature, academia, and creative thought.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR archival journal collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Collections include multi-discipline, discipline-specific, and region-based packages.
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Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Press (OUP) Journals is a multi-disciplinary database and covers the disciplines of life science, social sciences and humanities, medicine, mathematics, physics sciences and law. Over 70% of the OUP journals are indexed in SCIE, SSCI and A&HCI.
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. MUSE currently includes over 400,000 articles covering the subject of language and linguistics, literature, film studies, education, art and architecture, creative writing, social sciences, etc.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s platform for eBooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It contains indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents for over 2,500 journals and over 35,000 eBooks.
NOTICE: To retrieve ScienceDirect articles before 2010, you can use Duxiu Academic Search or Interlibrary Loan service in XJTLU Library.
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Taylor & Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis Online Journals provides full-text access to high quality academic journals including the world’s largest program of Social Science and Humanities journals published by Routledge; cutting-edge theoretical and applied Science, Technology and Medicine content from Taylor & Francis; and CogentOA, a suite of broad-spectrum open access journals. Detailed subjects include Language Studies, Arts, Business, Geography and Urban Planning, Media and Culture, Politics and International Relations, Public Health, Biological, Earth, Environmental & Food Science, Chemistry, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Computing & Technology, etc.
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WanFang Data This link opens in a new window
Wanfang Data integrates a vast array of academic literature, focusing on digital resources such as journals, papers, conference proceedings, patents, standards, and Chinese enterprises. It provides information in various fields including Chinese studies (art, humanities, social sciences), traditional Chinese medicine (herbal medicine), Chinese commerce, law, government, national defense, military, science, technology, and local records of China.
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a journal analysis tool provided by Clarivate Analytics. It examines the research impact at the journal and subject level by analyzing citation data from journals and conference proceedings in the fields of natural and social sciences within the Web of Science Core Collection database. JCR uses quantitative indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor and quartiles to illustrate the influence of high-level journals in specific subject areas.
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MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
From the Modern Language Association (MLA) and EBSCO, this resource combines an extensive collection of full-text journals with the definitive index for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing studies, folklore, film, theater, and other dramatic arts. In addition to the full-text journal collection, MLA International Bibliography with Full Text includes all the content and features of the MLA International Bibliography, including expert indexing by MLA staff and contributing scholars, citations to more than 6,000 actively indexed journals and book series, more than 3 million detailed bibliographic citations documenting the scholarly record from the late 19th century to the present, international coverage encompassing scholarly publications in more than 70 languages, the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, an extensive suite of free instructional resources, indexing of book chapters.
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Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier, which includes information on more than 20,000 journals from over 5,000 publishers worldwide, more than 800 conference proceedings, and hundreds of book series. The state-of-the-art search tools and filters in Scopus enable you to quickly discover relevant sources, identify trends in research or emerging topics, uncover potential research collaborators.
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Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core Collection is the world's leading citation database. It contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals— conference proceedings and books. Web of Science Core Collection provides following indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED), Index Chemicus (IC).
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities. Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished. Uncover new ideas and innovations with more confidence and efficiency, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global delivers a focused path for researchers by tapping into a global network of connected research.
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DART-Europe E-theses Portal This link opens in a new window
DART-Europe was an open access database founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses. Currently it provides access to 1,389,942 open access research theses from 585 Universities in 29 European countries.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open (PQDT Open) This link opens in a new window
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses across different disciplines free of charge. Users can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses, and view the complete text in PDF format.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is the ideal tool for researchers and students in the fields of social and behavioral sciences. It is a collection of more than 1100 case study examples, downloadable teaching datasets, full-text titles from the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, as well as video tutorials showing research in action. It is also the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, and journal articles by world-leading academics from across the social sciences.
Finding Encyclopedia & Dictionaries
You can take advantage of both encyclopedia and online dictionaries for assisting your research.
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Britannica Academic (Encyclopaedia Britannica Online) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) is one of the top three encyclopedias. Britannica Academic has articles, photographs, illustrations, sound files, and videos on every subject. Britannica Academic articles are trusted resources with balanced, global perspectives and unique insights that you are unlikely to find anywhere else, with all information selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
OED Online provides the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English Language in the world, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations.
Finding Specialised Databases - Business & Finance
This section provides gateways to data and statistics.
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ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. The subjects mainly cover Business, Economic Conditions, Corporate Strategies, Management Theory, Management Techniques, Business Trends, Competitive Landscape and Product Information, Accounting and Finance. ABI/INFORM Collection includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry.
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Business Source Ultimate (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate (BSU) is a scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content covering all disciplines of business. It offers access to 3,650 active full-text journals, including many peer-reviewed publications, especially 38 titles from FT50 Journals. It spans various business topics, from current trends to historical information and global perspectives. It provides researchers with essential business journals such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and MIS Quarterly, plus business videos from top providers.
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CEIC China+Global Package This link opens in a new window
CEIC is a trusted partner to help navigate the world of macroeconomic data. It provides exclusive normalized data to accurately compare economic indicators, such as GDP, CPI, FDI, Imports, Exports and Population.
Currently, CEIC Global and China Premium are available to XJTLU users. CEIC Global contains over a million timeseries covering 128 economies, and detailed data for key indicators such as GDP as well as insightful information on inflation, exports, and tourism. CEIC China Premium covers 18 macroeconomic sectors and 21 industry sectors, giving you the tools to conduct in-depth research on China. It contains regional data at the county, prefecture city and prefecture region levels, allowing detailed comparisons between regions.
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CSMAR (China Stock Market & Accounting Research) This link opens in a new window
The China Stock Market & Accounting Research (CSMAR) Database offers data on the China stock markets and the financial statements of China’s listed companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. CSMAR contains more than 15 types of changes in shares outstanding, including initial public offering, listing of seasoned new issue, listing of re-allotment shares, etc.; Financial Statements (Quarterly, interim, and annual); Stock Market Trading (Daily and monthly, return, shares outstanding); Closed-end Fund and Open-end Fund (NAV, fund holders); Corporate Governance; Merger & Acquisition; Initial Public Offering; Shareholders Research.
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Economy Prediction System (EPS) This link opens in a new window
The EPS (Economy Prediction System) is a global statistical data/analysis platform developed by Beijing Focus Information Technology Co., Ltd. The data primarily comes from authoritative data released by international organizations or institutions. Its biggest feature is the integration of a socio-economic information database with data analysis software, forming a series of professional databases tailored to different user needs, and providing predictive analysis capabilities. By organizing and summarizing various statistical data, it now has 106 thematic databases, forming a database cluster of nine major series: social livelihood research series, macroeconomic research series, financial market research series, key industry research series, industrial economy research series, trade and foreign economic research series, global economic research series, regional and county research series, and domestic census research series, with a total data volume exceeding 500 million entries. The data can be traced back to as early as 1960.
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Emerald Journals This link opens in a new window
Emerald Insight provides abstracts and full text articles from academic journals covering the subject areas of accounting & finance, economics, education, engineering, health and social care, HR & organizational behaviour, information & knowledge management, Library & information science, management science & operations, marketing, property management and built environment, public policy &environmental management, research methods, sociology, strategy, tourism & hospitality, transport.