Databases

Art & Architecture Complete is a robust art research database providing full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.

Content Includes:

• More than 200 active full-text, non-open access periodicals
• More than 190 full-text books
• Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 790 academic journals, magazines and trade publications and nearly 200 books
• A collection of over 63,000 images

Full-text access to over 260 e-books published by various publishers and made available via EBSCO. The platform enables full text searching within a particular e-book or across titles, a selection of tools to assist users to navigate, annotate, bookmark and save searches for future use.

Concurrent users: 1

Food Science Source™ is an extensive full-text database designed to support the informational needs of the food industry at all levels. This collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas that are integral to the food industry. This database offers cover-to-cover full-text coverage for more than 1,400 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications, all directly dealing with food industry-related issues. More than 1,000 key food industry and market reports are available.

This ebook reference collection offers a selection of 265 titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Nutrition Reference Center, the premier point-of-care tool designed specifically for dietitians and nutritionists, users can access trusted resources for education, practice and research to provide their patients with the highest level of care possible.It offers a streamlined user-friendly interface where users can access unique content on everything from condition-specific diets to dietetics skills and practices written by a world-class team of nutritionists and dietitians.

Content Includes

• Condition-specific diet topics
• Food-specific topics
• Nutrition skills checklists
• Cultural competencies
• Over 75 high-quality CEU modules
• Key reference books
• Nearly 600 relevant patient education topics
• Breaking news
• Relevant clinical updates

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.

Small Business Reference Center™ provides up to date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

The user-friendly interface guides users through small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Business videos provide critical information for business owners: interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures and ‘how to’ videos help foster success in all aspects of managing a business. A collection of state-specific resources supports the researcher with demographic data and other local information.

The Small Business Reference Center is updated daily.

Vocational Studies Complete contains more than 1,700 full-text journals as well as more than 200 full-text books. This database is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content. Vocational Studies Complete offers information from many sources that are unique to this database.

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. More than 700 contributions of 766 internationally renowned experts from 113 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge in the field of tourism, hospitality, recreation and related fields. All actors in this field will find reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference work. Tourism is the largest industry worldwide and is the main source of income for many countries. With both, this practical impact of tourism and a rapidly developing academic field, with a growing number of university courses and degrees in tourism, and a flourishing research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline.  

Full-text access to a collection of 20 e-books published by various publishers and made available via Gale Virtual Reference Library. With ReadSpeaker technology, the platform allows text to be read aloud to users and downloaded in MP3 format. The platform also provides tool for user to have on-demand content translation into 19 languages.

Concurrent users: Unlimited

Full-text access to a collection over 3900 e-books published by the world’s leading academic and professional publishers in the area of tourism, hospitality and catering, humanities, health science, language, business and management, etc.

Concurrent users: Unlimited.

OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 4,232,777 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download.

Full-text access to thousands of e-books published from various publishers.

Full-text access to more than 518 e-books published by Springer in 2015. All of them can be downloaded in PDF format.

Concurrent users: Unlimited

SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. SpringerOpen views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

Full-text access to a collection of 40 e-books published by renowned imprints such as Routledge. Unlike many of our eBook platforms, most titles on this site can be downloaded to the user's device as a PDF copy of the full book.
Concurrent users: Unlimited

The UNESCO Digital Library is the repository of UNESCO’s institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information), with more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centres in UNESCO’s Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives. The essential purpose of the UNESCO Digital Library is to share knowledge and to transmit it to future generations.

Our collections include:

- UNESCO publications

- UNESCO-sponsored publications

- Speeches of the Director-General from 1970 to present

- Documents of UNESCO’s Governing Bodies

- Publications of interest to UNESCO

The UNWTO Elibrary is an information source offering an unparalleled coverage of research and information in the area of tourism . The subject areas reflect all important themes moving the tourism sector and include, among other, ecotourism, sustainable development, finance and investment, risk and crisis management, market research, tourism statistics and poverty alleviation. The UNWTO Elibrary contains books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator.

UNWTO Elibrary includes more than 1245 publications on tourism - the biggest collection of publication in the field of travel and tourism - and 900 tables with:

• The most up-to-date UNWTO statistics on inbound and outbound tourism and other indicators.

• For more than 200 countries and territories.

In January 2016, IFTM Library has become the first World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Depository Library in Macao.

Launched by UNWTO in 2003, the Depository Library programme aims to foster the access to the research analysis and eports which are published by UNWTO with public audience. Till now, there are approximately 60 libraries in 30 countries and regions having joined the programme and been included as the depository libraries, and IFTM Library has been the 1st depository library in Hong Kong and Macao. From 2016 onwards, IFTM Library will receive UNWTO’s all English official publications and make them accessible to the public, in order to provide more abundant and complete tourism related information and to support research in tourism related areas for Macao and neignbouring regions.

虛擬圖書館提供澳門全文書庫、澳門學者資料和澳門學術動態，提供澳門基金會出版的圖書和期刊全文

本文獻搜索平台為讀者提供全文檢索服務，收錄包括圖書、期刊、報紙、學位論文、會議論文等約一百八十萬種文獻資料；當中圖書檢索方面，可為讀者提供部份全文閱讀。此外，該平台提供文獻傳遞服務 ，讀者可在網上閱讀過程中先點撃“查看來源”圖標，再點撃書名，接著於該書的網頁上點撃“圖書館文獻傳遞”，然後網上填表申請服務。

** 因圖書館沒有購買相關電子書，因此讀秀僅提供電子書部份試讀。但讀者可通過圖書館的文獻傳遞一次獲得部分頁內容，也可推薦圖書館購買該書以獲得全文。

注意：文獻傳遞服務，每次申請以50頁為限，並且一週內對同一文獻資料的申請不得超過其內容20%。