American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), is a professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the worldwide engineering and technology community. This collection includes ASME's 22 technical journals.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
This comprehensive Facts on File database gives a global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centres of civilizations--Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia. Spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE, this resource features subject entries, biographies, primary sources, images, maps and charts, and timelines. Suitable for students aged 15 and above.
A collection of Chinese eBooks covering arts, agriculture, aerospace, business and management, economics, education, history, literature, language, healthcare, medicine, military science, philosophy, psychology, religion and other subjects.
目前, 方正阿帕比已经拓展了包括电子书、电子报、移动媒体等在内的新型数字媒体出版形式.日前，方正阿帕比联手天津科技出版社、中国对外翻译出版公司，举办“手机书、电子书、纸书”同步发行上市活动.
Currently, you can search and browse Apabi eBooks titles using public terminals at NLB libraries. To download and read Apabi eBooks you need to access the Apabi Library using your own computer. You also need to install the free Apabi Reader, which is available from:
http://nlb.ebooks.apabi.com/Reader/gb/ApabiReader.exe
Readers are allowed to borrow a maximum of four books at any time and for 21 days.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Art FullText offers indexes (from 1984), abstracts and full-text (from 1997) of articles from an international range of art periodicals covering subjects such as Advertising Art, Architecture, Art History, Contemporary Art, Costume, Graphic Arts, and Photography. Art Index Retrospective lets users search for articles from 1929-1984.
Limited to 4 concurrent access only.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Index databases from Australasia's leading agencies and institutions that index and abstract a vast range of Australasian sources of information. Includes APECLIT, ASIANRES, BERITA, BIPE, INTAN MAS, INDBIO, PDIP, PDIR and Informit e-Library.
Asia-Studies Full-text Online provides access to publications by the region's most prestigious research institutions, bringing together thousands of full-text reports covering business, government, economic and social issues. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas, Pacific Rim countries, and the Pacific islands.
This is the on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) containing records of mainly western-language articles and book chapters on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
This is Facts On File’s literature database which examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, with new literary criticism and writings of renowned literary critic, Harold Bloom.
Available at all libraries and from home.
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Bloomberg professional service
This is a financial information network service that integrates data, news, analytics, multimedia reports, and electronic trading. The service is used by market professionals around the world, and is accessible via onsite Bloomberg terminals.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Bloomberg is a stand alone station at LKCRL.
Britannica Learning Zone offers an engaging online tool for early-childhood learning, covering letters, words, numbers, time, sound, geography and more. Its activity-centered learning environment supports classroom curriculum and helps students, from pre-kindergarten to 2nd grade, build technology skills.
Available at all libraries. Limited to 50 concurrent accesses.
Britannica Learning Zone offers an engaging online tool for early-childhood learning, covering letters, words, numbers, time, sound, geography and more. Its activity-centered learning environment supports classroom curriculum and helps students, from pre-kindergarten to 2nd grade, build technology skills.
Business monitor online information service provides country and political risk reports, industry analysis and forecasting, company intelligence, and financial markets forecasts.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Business monitor online information service provides country and political risk reports, industry analysis and forecasting, company intelligence, and financial markets forecasts.
Available at all libraries and from home. Complete full version of database is available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
CAMIO, OCLC’s Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. It highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, covering the complete range of expressive forms.
China Data Online is an invaluable statistical database on China, providing extensive economic, industrial, demographic and social statistical news and indicators, including access to statistical yearbooks from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
中国资讯行有限公司(China Infobank Limited)是香港一家专门收集、处理及传播中国商业信息的高科技企业，为世界各地各行各业的公司和研究机构提供经济新闻、商业报告、统计数据、科研资料等信息，资讯储存于16 个数据库中，目前拥有三百多万篇商业资料，为现存中文商业数据库之冠。数据库每日更新。
China Infobank comprises 15 databases that provide business information and other news about China. Types of information pertain to industry, economic, legal, health, government, company and biographical data. Contents are mainly in Chinese with some available in English.
Limited to 8 concurrent access only.
Available at all libraries.
仅限于八个使用者同时上网。
国家图书馆及属下分馆均提供此上网服务。
Access the digitised versions of a wide range of reference books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations and subject-specific reference titles.
Access the digitised versions of arts-related reference works, including the Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers and The Bridgeman Art Library Archive (over 17,000 images available).
Access the digitised versions of Peter Collin Publishing's Business French Dictionary, Business German Dictionary, Business Spanish Dictionary and more.
Access the digitised versions of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography, Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women and more.
Access the digitised versions of Collins Dictionary of Economics, The Penguin Business Dictionary, The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, Wall Street Words and more.
Automatically convert units of measurement in the following areas: area, distance, energy, fuel consumption, power, speed, temperature, volume, weight.
Access the digitised versions of Bloomsbury Thesaurus, Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, The American Heritage® Concise Dictionary and more.
Access the digitised versions of the Penguin Encyclopedia of Places, Collins World Atlas Gazetteer, Dictionary of Human Geography, Dictionary of Physical Geography and more.
Access the digitised versions of A Dictionary of Contemporary History, Concise Atlas of World History, The Great American History Fact-Finder, Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Who's Who in The Roman World and more.
Access the digitised versions of A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Dictionary of Eponyms, The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms and more.
Access the digitised versions of the Dictionary of Shakespeare, Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story and more.
Access the digitised versions of Black's Medical Dictionary, Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing, Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary and more.
Access the digitised versions of Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations, Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations, Respectfully Quoted and more.
Access the digitised versions of Andromeda Atlas of the Bible, Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend, Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible, Who's Who in Christianity and more.
Access the digitised versions of Collins Dictionary of Astronomy, Wiley Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics and more.
Access the digitised versions of Collins Dictionary of Sociology, Dictionary of Government and Politics, The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science and more.
Access the digitised versions of Collins Dictionary of Computing, Butterworth-Heinemann Dictionary of Engineering Terms, Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications, Newnes Dictionary of Electronics and more.
Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.
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Available at all libraries and from home.
Effective from 24 August 2010, this database will not be available due to termination of subscription.
Dance on Demand is a digital initiative that brings modern dance in Germany to Singapore. A collaborative project between the National Library Board, Goethe-Institut Singapore, Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen and Universität Bremen, this multimedia collection combines digitally remastered films and videos, photographs and text to create a rich cultural experience for anyone interested in dance. Learn more about each performance piece as well as individual choreographers, dancers, and specific styles.
Videos can be viewed at the library@esplanade and the Geothe-Institut Singapore Library.
Design and Applied Arts Index contains annotated references from design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms etc.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
The eBrary's collection of electronic books spans all academic subject areas such as arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and technology, business and economics, computers and IT, fine arts, law, life sciences and medicine. Includes additional premium content such as maps, journals, and reports.
A multi-disciplinary database which provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from journals in academic subject areas such as biology, chemistry, physics, computer sciences, engineering, medical sciences, arts and literature, sociology and religion.
Provides access to a large collection of business-related journals, newspapers and industry profile reports. Subject areas include marketing, management, accounting, and finance.
An authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides access to journals covering subject areas such as nursing, health services, medicine and public health. Apart from journals, it also offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice etc.
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. The database available here via the EBSCOhost Web service provides access to indexed bibliographic records and full-text documents.
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia that indexes over 25,000 records covering a variety of subject areas. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
Kids search provides primary and lower secondary school students with a fun, lively interface they can use to search EBSCO's American Heritage Children's Dictionary, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collection, and Primary Search databases. Younger researchers may also utilise the Searchsaurus interface.
Provides full text articles from periodicals covering general reference topics including health and medicine, science and technology, business and management, economics and international relations, home and garden, music and entertainment and many more subjects. Includes also full text extracts of important pamphlets.
Provides access to full text articles of general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines. This database features full text versions of reference and travel books, almanacs & books of facts, biographies and primary source documents, dictionaries as well as a vast image collection consisting of photos, maps and flags.
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military together with cover-to-cover full text access to contents of a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and pamphlets.
Provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and more on fiction titles. It includes additional information of interest to fiction readers, such as author read-alikes, award winners, recommended reads, book discussion guides, book talks, and feature articles.
Provides full text contents of periodical literature for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned reading level indicators (Lexile).
Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. Titles include Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, and Crain's New York Business.
Searchasaurus is a colourful, easy-to-use search interface for kindergarten and primary school students to search EBSCO's American Heritage Children's Dictionary, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collection, and Primary Search databases. Lexile limiters (reading level) make it easy for young patrons to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. Young researchers may also utilise the Kids Search interface.
The Economist Intelligence Unit provides in-depth analysis of political and economic trends plus background and historical context of current events in nearly 200 countries. Includes a fortnightly business briefing on doing business in Asia and guides to operating a business in China.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library and Regional Libraries only.
Education Full Text — the WilsonWeb journals database crafted to meet the unique information needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers — now delivers full text contents from Springer, plus full text information from the classic library trade magazine, Wilson Library Bulletin. The recent additions expand on the database's coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks.
Limited to 4 concurrent accesses only. Available at all libraries and from home.
Available on the Gale PowerSearch platform, this collection provides resources in the field of education covering virtually every educational specialty, latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs as well as information relating to administration, funding, policy, child health and development. The database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college.
Emerald Management Xtra is one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of peer-reviewed management journals. It features full text journals and reviews from the world’s top management journals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online consists of the complete encyclopaedia, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus, the Compton's Encyclopedia, as well as periodical literature and multimedia resources. Together, these quality reference sources provide the user with full text articles, images, dictionary entries as well as links to websites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Besides allowing accesses to a vast range of databases and libraries, Engineering Village also provides access to reliable web sites, weekly updates in a wide array of engineering topics, full-text document delivery as well as expert help and discussions among peers. It includes access to handbooks, patents and standards.
Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an integrated online information system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers.
Use Factiva's research products to gain single click access to a deep archive of news and business information that provides a historical, global, and local perspective, which can help you uncover essential information on your prospects, partners or customers easily.
道琼斯和路透社共同拥有的商业新闻信息库 Factiva.com 提供世界级的全球新闻和商业信息。其中文内容来源于中国大陆，香港，台湾，马来西亚，新加坡等地的100多种中文报纸杂志以及行业必读公司报告。在功能上，Factiva.com提供了搜索、跟踪、公司快速查询、股市汇市查询、行业查询，并能根据自己的需要跟踪感兴趣的信息来源、公司、行业和新闻主题。
Available at all libraries. With unlimited archive access.
Use Factiva's research products to gain single click access to a deep archive of news and business information that provides a historical, global, and local perspective, which can help you uncover essential information on your prospects, partners or customers easily.
道琼斯和路透社共同拥有的商业新闻信息库 Factiva.com 提供世界级的全球新闻和商业信息。其中文内容来源于中国大陆，香港，台湾，马来西亚，新加坡等地的100多种中文报纸杂志以及行业必读公司报告。在功能上，Factiva.com提供了搜索、跟踪、公司快速查询、股市汇市查询、行业查询，并能根据自己的需要跟踪感兴趣的信息来源、公司、行业和新闻主题。
The Straits Times & Business Times are available in libraries only. Limited to 50 concurrent access. Available from home with 30 days archive access.
Provides detailed profiles of jobs and industries, invaluable advice on job-hunting and workplace skills, as well as resource information relating to career interest assessment, career opportunities, college planning and financial aid.
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Available at all libraries and from home.
Effective from 24 August 2010, this database will not be available due to termination of subscription.
A growing collection of encyclopedias and reference eBooks for multidisciplinary research across a range of subjects. Publishers include Thomson Gale, Berkshire Publishing Group, Idea Group Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications and others.
This collection of journals focuses specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. It includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
An essential bibliographic tool for libraries, booksellers, and publishers worldwide, it covers millions of titles of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audio books and videos.|
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
GNPD, Mintel’s Global New Products Database, provides up-to-date coverage of new product innovation in consumer packaged goods markets. Thousands of new products are added to this searchable database each month. Patrons can use GNPD to get new ideas and stay informed of innovations in products, packaging and ingredients around the world.
(First time users will have to create a new profile, and access will be through email address and password).
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library and all Regional Libraries only.
Provides annual merchandise trade statistics by HS number for 26 countries including Singapore and its top trading partners. The reporting countries available on NLB Digital Library are listed in bold when you look under "Data Availability".
The New Book of Knowledge is published from The New Book of Knowledge database, a 7-million-word repository of text and images. NBK is a concise resource geared for primary school students and upwards. The database covers a broad range of topics, containing graphics, fact boxes, projects, suggested reading lists, and links to news articles.
The New Book of Popular Science is published by Scholastic Library Publishing from The New Book of Popular Science database, a 2.2-million-word repository of text and images. Targetted at upper primary and secondary school students, it also has informative articles in addition to interactive features such as fun facts, careers articles, science in the news, games, puzzles and brainteasers and links to thousands of websites.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia provides reference information and news on all subjects using learning tools and rich media. Includes full text encyclopedia articles with associated pictures, flags, maps and media, as well as video, sound, animations, panoramas and cutaways. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is updated monthly.
Provides access to medical reference materials, including a wide range of health/medical journals, pamphlets from authoritative medical sources, in addition to the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Includes physician-authored articles and health-related videos from Healthology and health news from Harvard Health Publications.
This is a comprehensive encyclopedic database containing thousands of hyperlinked entries organized into four major categories: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems.
Access Facts on File's history databases, Modern World History Online and Ancient and Medieval History Online, from a single search interface. Modern World History Online covers the people, places and events in the broad expanse of world history--from mid 15th century to the present. Ancient History and Culture explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. Suitable for students aged 12 and above.
This database from Informa offers access to leading insurance publications such as Insurance Day, World Insurance Report, the Re Report and The Review.
(Instructions: At Idnewscentre.com’s home page, type in any email address and click ‘enter’).
Provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
This database offers research services from Informa Finance covering topics such as: Regulation and Compliance, Tax and Accounting, International Trade Finance, International Payments and Pension.
(Instructions: At I-Financial.com’s home page, type in any email address and click ‘enter’)
Global Insight’s Country Analysis spans 202 countries and includes same-day analysis, country reports, special reports, in-focus, global data from IMF, country risk ratings, and sovereign risk ratings.
This database provides a comprehensive analysis of the business climate in China’s 31 regional economies. It focuses on the economic, regulatory, and political developments at the national and regional level.
IHS Global Insight's World Industry enables you to evaluate markets globally using powerful, comprehensive forecast databases. It helps you better understand a broad array of markets and plan your competitive strategies around the globe.
This database offers access to leading legal publications such as Arbitration Law, Copyright World, Intellectual Property Decisions, and Lloyd’s Law Reports Plus etc. Specific areas of practice include: Maritime & Commercial Law, Competition Law, Insurance Law, Construction Law, Intellectual Property Law and Arbitration.
(Instructions: At I-Law.com’s home page, type in any email address and click ‘enter’)
A collection of popular Chinese comics in rich graphical display, consisting of classics like Return of the Condor hero, Journey to the West, Hero, etc. This is the first-ever e-comics available online.
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) is the ultimate resource for music periodicals available on the web. It enables you to search and browse citations and abstracts in hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research.
Limited to one single user access at Esplanade Public Library (library@esplanade) only.
The International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) is a unique online resource that specializes in the performing arts. Use IIPA to search and browse citations and abstracts in a comprehensive range of journals related to the performing arts, covering a broad scope of research.
Limited to one single user access at Esplanade Public Library (library@esplanade) only.
EMIS provides full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information from more than 80 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only. Limited to 2 concurrent accesses.
JSTOR provides online access to archived contents of important scholarly journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Researchers are able to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of back issues of journals and pages as they were originally printed. Existing titles are updated and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
Kids InfoBits is a multi-source general interest database designed for elementary schools. It provides indexing, abstracts, and full text articles from children's and general interest magazines, reference books, as well as newspapers.
A Malay eBook collection suitable for children. Children will learn from stories that touch upon the animal and insect kingdoms, as well as other Asian stories.
Note: Flash plug-in is required to view and hear Pelangi eBooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
A database containing 1.8 million companies in over 75 countries. Search by product and service categories, company name, trade name and geographical region. View full company profiles, including the names of 3.6 million executives and financial data where available.
国际康帕斯数据库含有中国工商企业信息名录。具体信息包括：公司概况，详细如联系方式，产品和服务信息，负责人姓名等。为商家提供准确及时的中国企业及其产品信息。
Limited to 6 concurrent access only.
Available at all libraries.
Database providing indexes of English and foreign-language LIS-related periodicals, journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, library school theses and books. Full text articles with graphical content are available for over a hundred select publications.
Limited to 4 concurrent access only.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Library PressDisplay provides full-colour digital replications of hundreds of newspapers from around the globe. It offers full content and interactive access to more than 1,000 newspaper titles from more than 80 countries and published in over 39 languages.
Library PressDisplay provides full-colour digital replications of hundreds of newspapers from around the globe. It offers full content and interactive access to more than 1,000 newspaper titles, from more than 80 countries and published in over 39 languages.
Available from home. The Straits Times is available in libraries only.
Literature Online is a virtual library containing literary texts together with full-text journals, author biographies and other critical and reference resources. Designed as a reference tool for both students and advanced researchers of English literature, its core collection includes links to a vast array of web sites.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Magzone is the on-line service providing access to various electronic magazines and other publications, mainly in Chinese. Users can download and read the digital versions of these electronic magazines offline, using the DjVu reader. Magzone's coverage spans over 31 categories of subject areas. The electronic publications encompass material from 7 countries (Singapore, Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, Taiwan & Thailand). Available in English and Chinese.
The DjVu reader is required to access the e-zines.
Available at all libraries and from home.
MarketLine offers a comprehensive and unique collection of information in a variety of user-friendly formats, including interactive reports and databases on companies, industries and countries. It helps patrons to build an understanding of markets, whether they are researching for new business ideas, marketing plans or job opportunities.
Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.
Facts on File's Modern World History Online covers the important civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies,maps,primary source documents and timelines provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places and events that have defined world history. Suitable for students aged 12 to 18.
Nature.com is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature.com also provides insightful news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. Some of the subject areas covered include Biotechnology, Cancer and Drug Discovery.
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. Choose from the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of recordings as well as other licensed independent labels, from classical music (ballet, chamber music, choral, concertos, film music, instrumental, musicals, opera/operetta, orchestral, TV music, vocal) to blues, jazz, new age, nostalgia, world, and Chinese music. The database also contains accompanying notes on the works, artists and composers, opera synopses and libretti, audio books, and other reference resources. Classical and jazz sheet music service SheetMusicNow.com can be accessed directly through Naxos Music Library.
NetLibrary provides access to NLB's eContent collection, which is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access eContent 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Consisting of tens of thousands of high-quality copyrighted images created by some of Asia's finest photojournalists and photographers, the OnAsia digital archive features a range of photographic essays, stock photographs and conceptual images that represent a unique visual description of Asia, offering online access to a comprehensive collection of historical, political, social, and cultural images.
This database offers detailed profiles of public and private companies worldwide, including their corporate family trees, key executives' profiles and biographies, as well as financials for the past 10 years. In addition, it offers market research reports as well as analysts'/ brokers' recommendations on equities, commodities and industries at large.
Available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
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OneSource
This service is now available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library.
A collection of popular ebooks, audio books, music and video titles including all kinds of genres and many general interest subjects.
A special player Overdrive Media Console is required to listen to the audio books from Overdrive.
To check out ebooks/audio books, you are required to type in your username and NRIC or Membership no. or FIN that you first used, when you registered for an NLB Digital Library account.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Oxford Art Online provides online access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Both works are recognized as significant reference resources in the world of visual arts. Articles are added and updated regularly. The database includes access to thousands of images from the Art Resource and Bridgeman Art Library image collections.
Available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Available at all libraries and from home.
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Pelangi eBooks
A Malay eBook collection suitable for children. Children will learn from stories that touch upon the animal and insect kingdoms, as well as other Asian stories.
Note: Pelangi eBooks are now available under Koleksi Buku Elektronik Melayu.
PERIND is an index to periodical literature relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity), produced by the National University of Singapore. The database covers core journals, ranging from the humanities and social sciences to architecture, building, law and medicine. The articles are mainly in English, with a small number in Malay.
This collection provides useful fodder for social science, history, art and liberal arts researchers. Comprises 100 full-text periodicals and the following reference eBooks: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990; Contemporary Fashion; International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers and St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database providing access to abstracts and full text contents of journals and newspapers. Subject coverage includes business and industries, corporate strategies, management techniques, finance, technology, country profiles and forecasts, economics, politics, law, taxation, trade as well as product information. The full suite of databases consists of ABI/INFORM Archive Complete, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Banking Information Source, Hoover's Company Records as well as a host of other industry and newspaper resources.
