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The database provides full-text peer reviewed journals, e-journals and journals from institutional publishers of scholarly quality. Statistical reports on Asian countries are available. The service features monthly highlights for linking in monthly to keep track of notable new research. Humanities are also included and browsed in the Asia-Studies Humanities section.
Accessibility features for Asia Studies Full-Text Journal include keyboard navigation, adjustable text size, spacing and font, colour contrast, zooming, screen reader, use of flat hierarchy of links and descriptive link destinations, and text-to-speech tools with PDF content. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
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This eResource will not be available from 1 Jun 2024.
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Bloom’s Literature provides all of the essential information users need to research, study, and explore literature. Bloom’s Literature offers a wealth of relevant content on the authors and works most studied in the school curriculum, multicultural classics, contemporary literature, and more. Students and researchers will find exactly what they need without having to wade through an uncurated search.
Accessibility features for Bloom’s Literature include synchronised interactive captions and transcripts for most videos, audio control, keyboard navigation, descriptive page titles, colour contrast, adjustable text size, and screen reader support. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
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Euromonitor Passport covers thousands of product categories and industries, and market research helps users better understand core business and future opportunities. Passport's robust analysis and visualisation tools allow research with real-world relevance, and can be applied to strategic planning, economic analysis, industry benchmarking, competitive threats and market entry studies.
Accessibility features for Euromonitor Passport include support for non-text content, pre-recorded audio and video content, pre-recorded captions, text resizing and colour contrast.
Available for online viewing via the multimedia stations at the National Library and all regional libraries only. Downloading of any information is not permitted.
Power strategic decisions with Factiva’s global news database, deep archives, and research platform. Factiva’s 33,000 premium sources include licensed publications, influential websites, trade magazines and international/regional papers around the world. 掌握数千种全球顶尖媒体资源和出版物，Factiva协助您做出更睿智的决定。Factiva数据库收录了各类授权出版物、最具影响力网站、贸易杂志以及源自世界各地的国际或区域性论文等33,000份精选资源。
Accessibility features for Factiva include contrast between foreground and background, identifiable interactive elements, clear and consistent navigation options, headings structure and text-to-speech feature. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available from home with 30 days archive. Access to selected titles (e.g. SPH Media’s titles such as The Straits Times) via Factiva is available in libraries only.
Power strategic decisions with Factiva’s global news database, deep archives, and research platform. Factiva’s 33,000 premium sources include licensed publications, influential websites, trade magazines and international/regional papers around the world. 掌握数千种全球顶尖媒体资源和出版物，Factiva协助您做出更睿智的决定。Factiva数据库收录了各类授权出版物、最具影响力网站、贸易杂志以及源自世界各地的国际或区域性论文等33,000份精选资源。
Accessibility features for Factiva include contrast between foreground and background, identifiable interactive elements, clear and consistent navigation options, headings structure and text-to-speech feature. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries. With unlimited archive access.
Factiva Companies and Executives brings together the most respected financial and business publishers into one comprehensive collection. Gain access to business information containing over 25 million companies and 40 million executives. Deep content sets includes financial statements, analyst reports, executives’ profiles, peer comparisons, latest company news, corporate family and more. Factiva Companies & Executives 数据库集合了最具权威性的金融商业数据，包含超过2500万家公司和4000万高管的商业信息，以及一系列的财务报表、分析师报告、高管资料、同业比较、即时企业新闻、公司结构等信息资源。
Accessibility features for Factiva include contrast between foreground and background, identifiable interactive elements, clear and consistent navigation options, headings structure and text-to-speech feature. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries. With unlimited database access.
Gale Business: Insights provides business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with other business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today's global business environment.
Accessibility features for Gale Business: Insights include adjustable font, font sizes, font spacing, colour contrast and text-to-speech access for HTML articles, screen reader support and access to transcripts and closed captioning for video and audio content. For more information, please click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Gale's eBook platform provides top titles from the best nonfiction publishers and complements other eBook platforms. NLB’s Gale eBooks collection feature Malay language titles, and Singapore and South East Asia related topics and titles. Noteworthy eBook collections also include The Papers Of Lee Kuan Yew (19 volumes), National Day Rally Speeches and more.
Accessibility features for Gale include keyboard navigation, skip navigation links, descriptive page titles, adjustable text size and font, text-to-speech, optimised screen width and optimal contrast ratios, and option to display on-screen or download Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plain text of historical archive documents. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
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Gale Literature: Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
Accessibility features for Gale include keyboard navigation, skip navigation links, descriptive page titles, adjustable text size and font, text-to-speech, optimised screen width and optimal contrast ratios, and option to display on-screen or download Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plain text of historical archive documents. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.
Accessibility features for Health Reference Center include video closed captioning, audio control, keyboard navigation, descriptive page titles, colour contrast, and adjustable text size. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
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HyRead is a Chinese eBooks and eMagazines platform offering mainly titles published in Taiwan. It also includes Chinese publications from Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia. The content includes Fiction, Literature, Humanities, Business, Comics, etc. Users can access the eBooks and eMagazines via PC, or through the HyRead 3 mobile app which is available from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. 平台主要提供台湾的中文电子书与电子杂志，但也包括了来自香港﹑中国大陆﹑新马等地的中文出版品。内容种类包括文学小说﹑人文﹑商业、漫画等。可供网上阅读或下载到个人电脑及移动装置。
Accessibility features for HyRead include user font size control and text-to-speech feature (not for all EPUB format and not supported for PDF & JPEG format).
Available at all libraries and from home.
Infobase Learning Cloud offers bite-size, on-demand learning modules that help students, educators, and professionals build skills in the classroom, at work and in life.
Accessibility features for Infobase Learning Cloud include partial compatibility with screen readers (e.g. missing labels in some parts), synchronized closed captioning for videos, interactive transcripts, keyboard navigation, and colour contrast between the font and background. Text can be resized up to 200% without loss of content or functionality and intuitive navigation throughout the course and the platform. For more information, please click here.
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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.
Accessibility features for JSTOR include adjustable text size, font and spacing, colour contrast, keyboard navigation and shortcuts, zooming, screen reader support, navigation heading labels, alternative text for images and link destination labels. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Limited to 15 concurrent access from home. Available at all libraries and from home.
Kanopy General Collection offers a wide range of full-length movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Available at all libraries and from home.
For first time users:
Step 1) Key in myLibrary username under “LIBRARY CARD NUMBER” and myLibrary password under “LIBRARY CARD PIN/PASSWORD”.
Step 2) Create your Kanopy account using email and password, or sign up with your Google/Apple account.
Step 3) If you are a mobile user, please download the Kanopy app. Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for mobile access here.
For subsequent logins, you may use your Kanopy/Google/Apple account to directly access Kanopy General Collection.
Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for desktop access here.
You will be leaving the National Library Board’s site if you choose to access the content under Kanopy. Please be informed that Kanopy’s site requires you to create an account with them by providing an email address (Note: This need not be the same email address you have provided to NLB for purposes of your NLB membership). You will also need to create a password.
Accessibility features for Kanopy General Collection includes screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice control, and other assistive technologies. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Please note that Kanopy requires the person setting up the account to be at least 18 years of age. Parents or legal guardians of those below the age of 18 years are to set up the Kanopy account that their child/ward will use to access the Kanopy platform. A parental control pin can be enabled. For more information, refer to the FAQ here.
You have to make your own decision whether you wish to create such an account with Kanopy under their Terms of Service. The National Library Board may receive feedback from you on this eResource but is not legally responsible for any disputes you may have with Kanopy.
Kanopy Kids is Kanopy's curated collection of streaming video content for children. The video content available on this platform is rated PG13 and below.
Available at all libraries and from home.
For first time users:
Step 1) Key in myLibrary username under “LIBRARY CARD NUMBER” and myLibrary password under “LIBRARY CARD PIN/PASSWORD”.
Step 2) Create your Kanopy account using email and password, or sign up with your Google/Apple account.
Step 3) If you are a mobile user, please download the Kanopy app. Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for mobile access here.
For first time login, you may toggle to Kanopy Kids from Kanopy General Collection platform.
For subsequent logins, you may use your Kanopy/Google/Apple account to directly access Kanopy Kids.
Refer to the Step-by-Step guide for desktop access here.
You will be leaving the National Library Board’s site if you choose to access the content under Kanopy. Please be informed that Kanopy’s site requires you to create an account with them by providing an email address (Note: This need not be the same email address you have provided to NLB for purposes of your NLB membership). You will also need to create a password.
Accessibility features for Kanopy Kids includes screen readers, keyboard navigation, voice control, and other assistive technologies. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Please note that Kanopy requires the person setting up the account to be at least 18 years of age. Parents or legal guardians of those below the age of 18 years are to set up the Kanopy account that their child/ward will use to access the Kanopy platform. A parental control pin can be enabled. For more information, refer to the FAQ here.
You have to make your own decision whether you wish to create such an account with Kanopy under their Terms of Service. The National Library Board may receive feedback from you on this eResource but is not legally responsible for any disputes you may have with Kanopy.
LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps users learn business, software, technology, creative design and other skills to achieve personal and professional goals. It has a content library of more than 21,000 courses taught by over 2,900 industry experts with real-world experience. Every instructor is vetted based on criteria such as their deep, practical knowledge, credibility and credentials.
Accessibility features for LinkedIn Learning include pre-recorded captions and text resizing. For more information, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Kindly note that, you are now leaving the National Library Board (NLB) web resources and entering the LinkedIn Learning services. The NLB accepts no liability whatsoever for LinkedIn’s services; data collection features; and their online courses that you will be accessing next. You are encouraged to read the LinkedIn’s terms and conditions of use.
Classical music recordings for on-demand streaming, with supplementary material such as album covers, liner notes, inlay card, biographies of composers and artists, curated playlists, educational resources such as Study Guides, interactive music dictionary etc. For access with the NML mobile app, please refer to the installation guide.
Accessibility features for Naxos include highlight and enlarged cursor, enlarge or zoom in to control font size, crosshair to guide cursor movement. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.
PressReader provides access to thousands of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60 languages. Publications are presented as full digital replicas and offer advanced digital features such as keyword searching, translation, audio functionality and much more.
Accessibility features for PressReader include keyboard navigation, skip links, screen reader support, PressReader accessibility mode using speech recognition software, zooming, navigation menu labels and article mode reading. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home. Access to selected titles (e.g. The Edge, and SPH Media’s titles such as The Straits Times) via PressReader is available in libraries only.
PressReader provides access to thousands of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60 languages. Publications are presented as full digital replicas and offer advanced digital features such as keyword searching, translation, audio functionality and much more.
Accessibility features for PressReader include keyboard navigation, skip links, screen reader support, PressReader accessibility mode using speech recognition software, zooming, navigation menu labels and article mode reading. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries.
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Accessibility features for ProQuest databases include keyboard navigation, speech recognition software navigation, skip navigation links, headings navigation and is compatible with full keyboard control and screen reader. ProQuest provide captions for the majority of video content, allows adjustable colour contrast in browser settings and zoom up to 400% using browser tools without text spilling off screen. For more information on Accessibility, click here.
Available at all libraries and from home.