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  1. A premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific, Asia-Studies 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. Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies, to name a few. The database search engine offers advanced search features, as well as easy browsing by subject, study provider, alphabetical title as well as free text searching. Multi-country and Asia-wide comparisons are also available.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  2. Books In Print® combines the most trusted and authoritative source for bibliographic information with powerful search, discovery and collection development tools designed specifically to streamline the book discovery and acquisition process

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  3. Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  4. 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.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  5. 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.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  6. 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.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  7. The Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection is a multi-disciplinary Collection that provides access to fresh perspectives in the arts, communication, education, history, linguistics, politics and more. This is an essential resource for students, teachers and researchers seeking a critical resource for comparative regional studies.

    Available at all libraries and from home.

  8. 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.

    Limited to 15 concurrent access from home. Available at all libraries and from home.

  9. LawNet

    LawNet, a service provided by the Singapore Academy of Law, caters to the research and legal information needs of the global legal community. Since its inception in 1988 as a dial up network access provider, LawNet has grown in leaps and bounds, adding information, applications and databases to suit the evolving needs of legal practitioners, corporate counsel, paralegals, law academics and law students. Legal Research, a module within LawNet, is an integrated environment that allows you to search different types of legal content and multiple sources at a single go.

    Limited to 3 concurrent access only. Available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library only.

  10. Library PressDisplay

    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 will now be known as PressReader. If you have any enquiries, please contact our Customer Relations Officer at enquiry@nlb.gov.sg.

  11. Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject, Scholastic GO! offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills.

    Available at all libraries and from home.