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Open Educational Resources

 

Language in Chinese/English

  • Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database (中藥材圖像數據庫)(HKBU)

https://library.hkbu.edu.hk/electronic/libdbs/mmd/index.html

  • Chinese Medicine Specimen Database (中藥標本資料庫)(HKBU)

https://library.hkbu.edu.hk/electronic/libdbs/scm_specimen.html

  • Chinese Character Database (粵語審音配詞字庫)(CUHK)

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/

  • Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (林語堂當代漢英詞典)(CUHK)

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/

  • Hong Kong Digitization Project Initiatives (HKdpi)(HKBU)

https://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/outline?searchword=%27%25%27&channelid=55988&sortfield=%2Batitle_eng

  • HKInChip (香港中文期刊論文索引)(CUHK)

http://hkinchippub.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/public_and_private.htm

  • Hong Kong Literature Database (香港文學資料庫)(CUHK)

https://hklit.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/

  • Medicinal Plant Images Database (藥用植物圖像數據庫)(HKBU)

https://library.hkbu.edu.hk/electronic/libdbs/mpd/index.html

 

Language in English

  • Asia Art Archive (AAA): Material searchable via online catalogue and accessible at AAA physical place

https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections

  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)

https://www.adb.org/publications

  • Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics (AJGG): Fully Open Access

http://ajgg.org/index.html

  • BioMed Central (BMC), Open Access Publishing, Part of Springer Nature

https://www.biomedcentral.com/

  • Cambridge Dictionary Online

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

  • Clinical Calculator 1

http://vassarstats.net/clin1.html

  • Clinical Calculator 2

http://vassarstats.net/clin2.html

http://network.bepress.com/

  • Directory of Open Access Books

https://www.doabooks.org/

  • Directory of Open Access Journals: Open, Global, Trusted

https://doaj.org/

  • Drug Information Portal: Quick Access to Quality Drug Information, by the US National Library of Medicine and other key US government agencies

https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/about.jsp

  • East Asian Archives of Psychiatry: The official peer-reviewed publication of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatry (Open access)

https://easap.asia/index.php

  • ERIC: Search Education Resources by Collection and Thesaurus, Institute of Education Sciences

https://eric.ed.gov/?

  • EThOS: e-theses online services, British Library

https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

  • Free Books 4 Doctors: Promoting free access to medical books

http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

  • Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in HKSAR Government Departments (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)

https://www.csb.gov.hk/hkgcsb/glossary/glossary_en.php

  • Hong Kong Education Bibliographic Database (HKEdU)

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/

  • Hong Kong Education Image Database (HKEdU)

https://imagedb.museum.eduhk.hk/

  • Hong Kong Medical Journal (HKMJ): The Official Publication of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and the Hong Kong Medical Association

https://www.hkmj.org/

  • Hub of Occupational Therapy theory (HOTheory)

https://ottheory.com/about-database

  • Journal of Public Health: Open Access & Free Articles, Oxford Academic

https://shorturl.at/mpwBW

 

  • JSTOR: Early Journal Content, Hundreds of Journals Freely Available

https://about.jstor.org/ejc/

  • JSTOR: Offers millions of open articles, images and books

https://www.jstor.org/

  • LibreTexts: Free The Textbook, The World’s Most Popular Online Textbook Platform

https://libretexts.org/

  • MedCalc: Clinical Calculators

http://www.medcalc.com/ivrate.html

  • Medical Dictionary Online, by MegaLexica

https://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/

  • MedlinePlus: Medical Encyclopedia

https://medlineplus.gov/encyclopedia.html

  • Merriam0webster Online: Online Dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

  • MIMS: Find Drugs, Pill Identifier, Find Drug Company 

https://www.mims.com/hongkong

  • NDLTD: The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

https://ndltd.org/

  • OAPEN: Open Access Books, Publishing in European Networks

https://www.oapen.org/home

  • ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

http://products.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_b

  • OMICS: Open Access Journals

https://www.omicsonline.org/

  • Open Access Library (OALib): Search Engine, Journal, Index, Repository

https://www.oalib.com/

  • Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD): Advanced Research and Scholarship. Theses and Dissertations, Free to Find, Free to Use

https://oatd.org/

  • Open Book Publishers (OBP): The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1287

  • Open Stax: Free and flexible textbooks and resources

https://openstax.org/

  • Open Textbook Library: Transform Higher Education and Student Learning

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

  • OTseeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence

http://www.otseeker.com/

  • PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database

https://pedro.org.au/

  • Project Gutenberg: A Library of Over 60,000 Free E-books

https://www.gutenberg.org/

  • PubMed.gov, National Library of Medicine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

  • PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

  • Social Science Research Network: Provides 1.1 million Research Papers from 812K Researchers in More Than 65 Disciplines

https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/

  • Springer Open: Offer Researchers to Publish Open Access in Journals

https://www.springeropen.com/

  • Statistics Calculators: BMJ Best Practice

https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/toolkit/ebm-toolbox/statistics-calculators/

  • Trip Medical Database: A Smart, Fast Tool to Find High Quality Clinical Research Evidence

https://www.tripdatabase.com/Web

  • Web Gallery of Art: A Virtual Museum and Searchable Database of European Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, and Architecture from 3rd to 19th centuries

https://www.wga.hu/index1.html

 

Hong Kong Public Libraries: Access E-Resources via Internet with the Hong Kong Public Libraries Account (Free to Register an Account)

https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/e-resources

  • Remote Access Databases: Collection 1

https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/e-resources/e-databases/home/remote/1

AccessScience; Art & Architecture Source; BookData Online; Britannica Library; Business Book Summaries; Business Source Complete; China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CJFD); China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database; China Masters’ Theses Full-text Database; Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (Gu Jin Tu Shu Ji Cheng)

  • Remote Access Database: Collection 2

https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/e-resources/e-databases/home/remote/2

eLibrary(Periodicals and Digital Media Content); Flipster (English Magazines); Gale In Context: Biography (Biological Database); Gale in Context: Elementary (Liberal Studies for Aged Between 4 and 11); Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Database); Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Today’s Hottest Social Issues and Provides Access to Viewpoints, Topic Overviews, Statistics, Primary Source Documents, links to websites, Full-text Articles of Magazines and Newspapers); Gale In Context: Science (Science Database); Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts (Cooking and Nutrition Database); Gale OneFile: News (Full-text Articles of English Newspapers and Magazines, Newswires and Broadcast Transcripts from Around the World); Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep (College Planning, Undergraduate and Graduate Programs, Scholarship Application, and Career Development)     

  • E-Books

https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/e-resources/e-books/home