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ISSUE NO.17   30 January 2007

This issue features:
New Resources: Featured Reources:

 
Hot Topic:
Service Alert:

Resources

 

ACM Digital Library

Full text of 300+ journals, newsletters, transactions, conference proceedings, etc by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), can be traced back to 1968.

 

 

 

To access ACM Digital Library, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "acm digital library" (with quotation marks).

 

 

China Journal Net - Literature / History / Philosophy

Full text of 400+ Chinese journal articles published in Mainland China from 2001 on these subjects are covered.

 

China Academic Journals Full-text Database and China Proceedings of Conference Database are now on a new interface, which provides more search capabilities. A search guide is available.

 

 

To access China Journal Net and China Proceedings of Conference Database, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "caj".

 

Environment Complete

400+ related full text journals are included.

 

To access Environment Complete, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "environment complete" (with quotation marks).

 

A search guide is also available.

 

International Financial Statistics (IFS)

About 32,000 time series data on exchange rates, national reserves, and monetary indicators covering 200+ countries from 1948.

 

 

To access International Financial Statisitcs, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "ifs".

 

A search guide is also available.

 

SourceOECD

The 6 databases available are:

Most time series statistics are dated back to the 1960s.

 

To access these databases, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "sourceoecd".

 

WDI Online

World Bank's World Development Indicators provides historical statistics on population, national average income, business environment, etc of 200+ countries from 1960.

 

To access WDI Online, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "wdi".

 

 

 Featured Resources:
Accounting & Finance

Databases:
Most of the following databases provide full-text journal articles related to Accounting and Finance.  Special content of them is highlighted below: 

Accounting & Tax (ProQuest)

  • Over 300 full text journal titles in accounting, auditing, taxation, and financial management, such as Australian Accounting Review, Financial Analysts Journal.

ABI/Inform Complete (ProQuest)

  • 15,000 plus master theses and doctoral dissertations in all business areas.

  • Professional journals on accounting and finance, such as Journal of Accountancy, the CPA Journal, the Banker.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOHost)

  • Company (e.g. Henderson Land) and Industry Profiles (e.g. “Retail Saving and Investments in Asia-Pacific”) from Datamonitor.

  • Datamonitor’s 1,800+ SWOT analysis (e.g. Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.)

  • Market research reports on insurance, personal investment, etc,  from MarketWatch.

  • Over 3,700 full-text journal titles, e.g. Accounting Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

China InfoBank (中國資訊行)

  • Business news, reports and statistics of various industries and regions in China.

  • Annual statistics such as 中國經濟、中國金融.

  • Information on publicly-traded companies in Mainland China.

Factiva.com

  • Financial reports of publicly-traded companies.

  • Current and historical (up to 5 years) quotes.

General BusinessFile ASAP (Gale InfoTrac)

  • Over 200,000 private and publicly-traded company profiles.

  • Selected investment reports.


 Professional Examinations:
Past/pilot exam papers and study materials of some professional associations are available in the Reference Collection on Library 1/F:

Associations Classification Number (REF)
AIA HF5661.A53
CIMA HF5661.C54 - 55
HKICPA HF5661.H5734

IASB Publications:
 Standards, updates, papers, etc can be found by searching International Accounting Standards Board as Author in Library Catalogue.

 Journals:
Here are some examples in the E-Library:

Books:
 Users can type in keywords in the Library Catalogue to search for books on various business topics available in the Campus Library.

The Library puts books of the same subject together for easy shelf-browsing. The following classification numbers are for your reference:

Subject Keywords

Classification Number
Accounting HF 5601 - 5689
Banking HG 1501 - 3550
Corporate Finance, Financial Management HG 4001 - 4285
Insurance HG 8011 - 9999
Investment HG 4501 - 6051
Taxation, Revenue HJ 2240 - 3192.7

See also E-Library > Library Guides > Subject Resources for Accounting and Banking & Finance.

 

Service Alerts

  

Exam Papers for the 2006 April Semester
Past papers of the August 2006 exam, those provided to Library, are now available in print and online. Go to E-Library Home Page > Reserve Collection. Log in with your user ID and password, then key in your course code to search.

 
Hot Topic: Internet Outage

Frustrated by the recent Internet outage? Need to find more about the Internet? The E-Library can help you:

For news coverage of the incident, check out Wisenews for news mainly in Chinese. Use Factiva.com to find related coverage in major English media.

Check out EIU.com for telecommunication overview in Hong Kong and Asian Countries.
ACM Digital Library gives abundant technical information on computer technology and Internet.

Interested in how the Internet affects your lives? Go to Academic Search Elite.
 

 

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