ONLINE E-DATABASES
Sunway Campus Library subscribes to 53 online electronic databases, which contain articles from electronic journals/magazines and
newspapers, as well as laws, technical reports and reference works. Access requires the Library MyAccount User ID (your library
membership number) and the Library MyAccount PIN (1234, if you have not changed it yet). To access the databases, go to:
Biology
Art & Design
http://library.sunway.edu.my/?q=edatabase/title
Art Museum Image Gallery
Art Museum Image Gallery offers unparalleled access to thousands of high-quality art images and related multimedia. Drawing on the
collections of distinguished museums, there are over 165,000 superior quality images for use in non-profit institutions covering time
periods ranging from 3,000 B.C. to the present day. The collection represents art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the
Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.
ASM Journals
This package consisting of 12 American Society of Microbiology journals delivers up-to-date and authoritative coverage of both basic and
clinical microbiology.
Books24x7 BusinessPro
Business Pro provides access to more than 7,000 e-books from 222 well-known publishers in business publishing. It covers topics such
as project management, leaderships development, quality management, corporation case studies and Six Sigma.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides full text for more than 3,800 journals (including full text for nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed titles); 1,000
books; 9,000 case studies; one million company profiles; 20,000 industry reports and many more.
CCH Asia Tax and Accounting Briefing
Business & Finance
Newsletter on tax and accounting in Asian countries.
Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers fu ll text for
nearly 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science. programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, informati on systems,
robotics and software. Leading general magazines are also provided, such as eWeek, PC World and more.
eIFRS
http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/Menu
The electronic consolidated edition of International Financial Reporting Standards (including International Accounting Standard s
and Interpretations) and accompanying documents.
Emerald Management eJournals
Emerald Management eJournals articles provide you with access to the latest research and global thinking in management. Emerald
offers a full text articles from 175 peer-reviewed journals published by Emerald, covering all major management disciplines such as
marketing, managing people, economics and social policy, strategy and financial management.
General Business File ASAP (1980 - present)
Provides researchers with information on companies, markets and industries, from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current
management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full
text and images.
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Business & Finance
IMF eLibrary Complete
http://elibrary.imf.org
IMF eLibrary Complete provides access to comprehensive archive of more than 15,000 publications, the valuable AREAER Online
database, plus continued IP access to the statistical databases. The AREAER Online offers exchange rules on items such as
import/export duties, international real estate ownership and foreign currency holdings. IMF eLibrary also consists of books and flagship
reports such as World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report.
Malaysian GAAP: A Practical Guide to Approved Accounting Standards
http://www.cch.com.sg/sg/default.aspx
Provides a complete view of financial reporting statistics for non-private entities issued by the Malaysian Accounting
Standards Brand (MASB).
Malaysian IntelliTax Library
Two concurrent users. Provides online access to Malaysian Master Tax Guide; all Malaysian tax legislation, case law (including
Singapore cases), tax treaties information and update.
Regional Business News
This databases incorporates 80 business journals, newspapers, and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United
States. The contents are updated daily.
Communication
& Media Studies
Communication Source
Developed from a merger of EBSCO’s Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts, Communication
Source features full text for more than 1000 titles, including over 600 active full-text titles and 150 full-text titles not found in other EBSCO
academic databases. This database offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse,
speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields
SAGE Journals Online
This database consists of 555 journal titles. Full-text is available from 1999 onwards. Disciplines covered are social science & humanities,
health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, and materials science & engineering.
ACM Digital Library (1947- present)
Computer Science
The database of the Association of Computing Machinery provides access to the full text of ACM journals and magazines, ACM
proceedings, and resources from affiliated organizations.
Books24x7 OfficeEssentials
With 557 e-books from 37 leading publishers, such as John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill Osborne, Microsoft Press,
Sybex.OfficeEssentials provides time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, feature specifics and workarounds on such topics as PC
basics, Web browsers, mobile devices, Windows® and Macintosh®, operating systems, Adobe® Photoshop®, Microsoft® Office and
many others.
Computer Database (1980 - present)
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electro nics,
engineering, communications and the application of technology. It includes indexing, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 800
journals and periodicals.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society is an organization of computing professionals.
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) provides access to more than 470,000 articles and papers from 4,450
conference proceedings and to all available issues of 29 Computer Society periodicals.
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each records 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 subjects areas. This database is updated annually.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
An online encyclopedia that is a complete resource tool. The academic edition of Britannica Online delivers search results from a range
of content including encyclopedia articles, multimedia, related Web sites, magazines and much more. In addition, the database provides
the well known Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, an Annual Review of people and events of the past year, a
World Atlas, World Data Analyst and Country Comparisons. Britannica Online enhances its information by providing related articles, links
to other websites and bibliographies.
Education
ERIC
This database provides access to education literature and resources from the Education Resource Information Center.
It is for both professional educators and students who need to keep up with the latest teaching concepts and methodologies. It contains
more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full text documents.
PEEL in Practice
Consists of all issues of PEEL Seeds which give detailed descriptions of innovative classroom-tested teaching procedures developed
under the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL); links to other education resources and other publications.
Environmental
Science
GreenFILE
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This database covers information on topics from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. It provides indexing
and abstracts for more than 384,000 records and full text for over 4,700 records from open access titles. It consists of scholarly, general
interest titles, government documents and reports.
SAGE Journals Online
This database consists of 555 journal titles. Full-text is available from 1999 onwards. Disciplines covered are social science & humanities,
health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, and materials science & engineering.
General
Reference
Credo Academic Core
Credo Academic Core provides content from nearly 500 academic references, like dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, covering a wide range of subjects from accounting to zoology. Credo brings the facts alive with images,
sound files, animation, videos and multimedia.
CHRIE
http://www.chrie.org/
This is the database of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education. It includes hospitality and tourism
publications, such as the CHRIE Newsletter, and other journals.
Hospitality & Tourism
Culinary Arts Collection
The Culinary Arts collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles.
Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection (1980 - present)
With current and relevant content from about 400 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical
and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry,
including cultural aspects of tourism, etc.
Leisure Tourism Database
Contains over 100,000 abstracts from over 30 years of research, sourced from over 6,000 serial publications and thousands of other
documents, including all the core tourism and leisure journals. Additional features of the website include a meeting calendar, weblinks,
and thousands of articles on tourism, leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, and culture, most of which contain links to database records
and/or external sources of additional information.
Tourism Factbook
www.e-unwto.org
Offers access to the most up-to-date statistics on inbound and outbound tourism for more than 200 countries and territories.
The spreadsheets include information on hotels and other accommodation establishments.
LawNet
Law
http://www.lawnet.com.my/
LawNet is Malaysia’s virtual law library. It caters to practising lawyers, legal advisors, academicians, law students and others who need
to refer to Malaysian laws on a regular basis. It covers the Acts of Parliament, government gazettes dating from 1998, updated Acts,
Bills, Subsidiary Legislation, Cyber laws, Federal Constitution, National Land Code, Criminal Procedure Code, State Enactments and
By-Laws.
Malaysian Legal Alert (restricted access)
http://www.malaysianlegalalert.net
MLA monitors and gathers information on Malaysian legal developments from over 150 local and foreign sources. Through the MLA
manager, users can search the archives for legal news, cases, legislation and publication. Access is available to specified individual
subscribers. However, users may be given temporary access within the Library. Please enquire personally from the Help Desk or
Reference Division.
SAGE Journals Online
Library & Information Science
This database consists of 555 journal titles. Full-text is available from 1999 onwards. Disciplines covered are social science &
humanities, health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, and materials science & engineering.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship,
classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as
1960s.
ACM Digital Library (1947- present)
The database of the Association of Computing Machinery provides access to the full text of ACM journals and magazines, ACM
proceedings, and resources from affiliated organizations.
Emerald Management eJournals
Emerald Management eJournals articles provide you with access to the latest research and global thinking in management. Emerald
offers a full text articles from 175 peer-reviewed journals published by Emerald, covering all major management disciplines such as
marketing, managing people, economics and social policy, strategy and financial management.
Music
Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and
the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and subsequent updates. Includes more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies. Also
includes access to the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Naxos Music Online
Collection of classical music available online. Includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 1,679, 500+ tracks,
including jazz, world, folk, Chinese music and pop/rock. NML provides liner notes for many recordings. Listeners can create
personalized playlists. For students, the library also offers playlists for graded music exams (ABRSM, Trinity/Guildhall) in various
categories and grades.
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Academic OneFile (1980 - present)
This database provides coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, and many more. AOF
contains more than 51 million articles dating back as far as 1980 from about 16,000 journals. It provides full text for about 7,800 journals
of which 4,000 are peer reviewed publications. Major newspapers, including the full text of the New York Times from 1995, the London
Times from 1985 and the Financial Times from 1999, are also provided.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals dating back as far as 1887 , including full text for more
than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. This database is updated daily.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Search and view the full text of the book.
Ebrary
A multidisciplinary online database of over 84,000 electronic books. Individual titles are also searchable in the Library Catalogue,
at http://library.sunway.edu.my
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General Reference Center Gold (1980 - present)
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources: newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. There
are articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc. It provides more
than 4,000 full-text journals.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
This database is designed specifically for high school libraries, and provides full text for over 500 popular, high school magazines,
biographies, primary source documents, 360 reference books and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Online resource covering today’s hottest issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Opposing Viewpoints in
Context is cross-curricular and support science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.
Primary Search
This database is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms. It provides full text for more than
70 popular, elementary school magazines, indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines and an Image Collection of over 453,000
photos, maps and flags. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary.
News
Malaysiakini
http://www.malaysiakini.com
An Independent online newspaper that offers the latest news, opinions, editorials, features and letters on Malaysia on a daily basis.
It often provides alternative viewpoints to those carried by the mainstream media.
Star E-paper, The
Performing
Arts
Star E-paper is an interactive electronic version of Star (Malaysia). Included are the Star Main paper, StarBiz, Star Search Metro, Star
jobs, The Star Special and Flavours. Back-file access is for 60 days. From this portal you may also access Jakarta Post, Philippines Daily
Inquirer, China Daily Asia Weekly, The Nation (Thailand).
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full-Text
This is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. It provides more than 170 full text journals and more
than 360 full text books and monographs on all aspects of theatre and performance.
Other Libraries
Pyschology
Psychology Collection (1980 - present)
This collection gives a basic understanding of the study of the mind and emotion. It contains about 200 subject-appropriate full text
periodicals.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and
scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA, its
imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), dating back as far as 1894.
Victoria University Online E-Databases
Victoria University students and academic staff also have access to Victoria University’s e-databases available at:
http://www.vu.edu.au/library/access-borrowing/resources-collections/databases
Lancaster University Online E-Databases
Staff and students associated with programmes validated by Lancaster University have access to Lancaster University’s
e-databases available at: http://lancaster.libguides.com/databases
Library Guide no.14, Document no. LG/014. Issue 28, 24 February, 2016