Digital Information Programs at the University of Hong Kong

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Digital Information Programs at the University of
Hong Kong

• June 2003

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The University of Hong Kong Libraries

• A. Digitization Projects
• B. Access to Commercial Forms of Digital
  Information
• C. Scholarly Portals
• D. Providing/Access to Mirror Sites for Databases

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A. Digitization Projects

• To preserve library materials to provide both
  researchers the general public, both local
  overseas,with free access to information about
  Hong Kong, HKUL initiated a series of digital
  projects beginning in 1996.
• The three main types of projects include
• Full-text Databases
• Indexes Abstracts Databases
• Table of Contents Databases

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HK Full Text Databases

• Exam Base
  
• 23,000 pages
• Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
  
• 41,000 pages
• Hong Kong the West until 1860
  
• 531 pages
• Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO)
  1853-1941
• 186,600 pages
• Hong Kong Newspaper Clippings Online
  
• 156,000 pages
• Sun Yat-sen in Hong Kong (??????)

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Indexes Abstracts

• Hong Kong Listed Company Papers Online
  
• 20,500 records
• Hong Kong Tourism Board Collection
  
• 3,780 records 500 posters
• Hong Kong University Theses Online (HKUTO)
  
• 9,000 titles 76,200 pages of abstract
• The Last Governor Online
  
• 1,300 records

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Table of Contents Databases

• Hong Kong Table of Contents Database
• 19,000 book titles
• 693,000 chapter titles
• Union Catalogue of Chinese Overseas Collections
  (?????????)
• 2,500 book titles
• 60,000 chapter titles

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Future Projects

• Digital Chinese Medicine Fulltext Database.
• Hong Kong PIX database.
• Digital Hong Kong (documents) Collection.
• Virtual HK SARS fulltext database.
• China Through Western Eyes.
• Achievements in HKU Medicine.

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B. Access to Commercial Forms of Digital
Information
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Shifts in our collecting usage
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Shifts in our collecting usage
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Shifts in our collecting usage
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E-book/text Collections A

• netLibrary. CCDMHK collection comprises over
  40,000 titles
• Ebrary. Over 20,000 titles from 150 publishers
• Safari Tech Books, Online, Books24x7, ITPro and
  Knovel collections. About 3,000 books covering
  major IT engineering imprints
• InteLex Past Masters. Authoritative editions of
  works of major philosophical figures

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E-book/text Collections B

• Early English Books Online TCP. Access to more
  than 96,000 early printed works as listed in the
  Short-title Catalogue (1475-1700) Thomason
  Tracts
• Evans Digital Edition TCP. A collection of
  over 36,000 publications, corresponding to
  Charles Evans historic American Bibliography
  (1639-1800) Roger Bristols Supplement
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Includes all the
  Reports, Documents, Journals of the Senate
  House of Representatives from 1817-1980, as well
  as the retrospective American State Papers
  (1789-1839
• Shaw Shoemaker Digital Edition. Includes over
  38,000 items corresponding to Ralph B. Shaw
  Richard H. Shoemaker's American Bibliography
  (1801-1819). The project is expected to begin in
  July 2004

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Major e-journal collections

• ScienceDirect
• Kluwer, OUP online journals
• Wiley InterScience journals
• -Blackwell Publishing, includes STM (Blackwell
  Science and Munksgaard), HSS (Blackwell
  Publishers)
• Sage Social Sciences Full-Text Collections
• JSTOR (all collections)
• Ovid Lippincott Total Access Collection
• Emerald Fulltext
• IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library)
• ACM Digital Library

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Future Acquisitions

• SourceOECD
• AMICO Library
• Gerritsen Collection (Women's History Online,
  1543-1945)
• AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Taylor Francis e-journal package
• SpringerLink e-journal package 

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Providing seamless access

• Accessing aggre- gated individual journal
  titles via Dragon

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Providing seamless access

• From biblio-graphic records to full-text local
  holdings

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• WebBridge MetaFind Beta stage

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WebBridge MetaFind Beta stage
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C. Scholarly Portals

• HKU Portal with Link to Library Resources
• released 2 Jan 2003
• Based on uPortal of JA-SIG (Java Administration
  Special Interest Group)
• MyLibrary Portal For Just Library Resources
• released 6 Nov 2002
• Based on MyLibrary_at_NCState
• SOUL Portal for Distance Education and Evening
  School Student Access
• Initiated May 2002

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D. Providing Mirror Site Access Background

• CNKI/HKU Joint Partnership ??????????

• 1999?12?
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• 2001?
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Dec. 1999 HKU set up the first local host
of CNKI outside MainlChina 2000 CNKI HKU
had been enhanced the cooperation. 2001
Establishment of CNKI Database Exchange Center in
HK HK users can obtain instantaneous Web
access CNKI journals newspaper articles.
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Databases Available at HKU/CNKI ??/CNKI ????????

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• China Journal Databases
• (CJN)
• 5580 journals, 7 million full text
• articles since 1994
• China Core Newspaper Databases
• (CCND)
• 2 million news articles from 350
  newspapers since June 2000
• China Doctor/Masters Dissertation Databases
  (CDMD)
• Over 4.5 million master doctoral theses
  since 2000.

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Lists of HKU/CNKI Mirror Site USERS???????????
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• University of Hong Kong
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• City University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Lingnan University
• Baptist University
• Hong Kong Shue Yuan College
• Open University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Central Library
• Education Department, Hong Kong
• Department of Health, Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Hospital Authority

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Key Chinese Databases in HKUL???????????????

• Scripta Sinica
• Wen yuan ge si ku quan shu
• Si bu cong kan
• Wanfang Data
• China Infobank
• Index to Chinese periodical literature on WWW
• Jin bao xing tu newspaper database
• Ji shi bao zhi biao ti suo yin
• WiseNews
• China financial news Computer data

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