Electronic Resources
E-books

The “JoyReadClub” ebook reading platform contains fictions and non-fictions by Hong Kong popular authors. This collection of works covers the subjects, including literature, language, finance, economics, investment, psychology, health, lifestyle, comics and children's books, etc.

It offers literature, life and leisure, inspiration, humanities, commerce and finance, information and computer, nature, applied science, language learning, animation and graphics, as well as arts and design books.


One of the largest Chinese e-book databases, China Digital Library collects books published by over 500 publishers, covering social science, humanities, economics and business management, literature and technology. The database provides a layout identical to the print copies with illustrations to promote the reading experience.

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Electronic Magazines & Newspapers

Flipster offers a wide range of English e-magazines covering various topics such as business, sports, modern trends, automobiles, news, science and technology, health as well as leisure and hobbies. Both current and back issues are available for online reading or for downloading to mobile devices for access at any time.


It embraces the 1,100 most popular periodicals published in Mainland China, updated simultaneously with print copies. Interfaces in traditional and simplified Chinese are available. It also features advanced technologies like ‘original layout’, ‘speech synthesis’ and full text search functions.

It comprises Common Health Magazine, Cheers, Common Wealth Parenting, and other featured databases, covering information in various fields like healthy life, career development, humanities and education, etc. All are available in original layout.

National Geographic is famed for its in-depth reports on culture, nature, ecology, natural science, science, technology and environment. The database provides a comprehensive search engine of all articles, images and maps since the starting publication, including National Geographic Magazine, e-books and videos that have been published.

It collects articles from leading international news publications such as The Times, Le Monde, etc. It also provides transcripts of news highlights of crucial TV and radio news throughout the world.

WiseNews is available at branches of Macao Public Library (except Wong Ieng Kuan Children's Library in Areia Preta Urban Park).
The service offers numerous e-newspapers from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, America and other countries in Asia-Pacific region and Europe covering information in hundreds of categories. Among them are finance, real estate, current affairs, education, transportation, telecommunication and technology, sports and entertainment. Users have access to both the latest daily news and stored retrospective information.
Searches can be conducted in Chinese or English on WiseNews’ user-friendly interface. Users can find the materials by entering the keywords or selecting the region, type of mass media, name of publication, or type of information.

It has collected academic and informative documents from leading newspapers in China since 2000, which have been updated continuously. It has also collected more than 6.47 million full-text newspaper articles from 1st November 2009.
Including electronic collection of Va Kio Daily from its establishment in 1937 (to recent years).
*Readers are required to go Macao Central Library, Sir Robert Ho Tung Library or Taipa Library in person to request for an access to the above mentioned database from the librarian. The librarian will assist the reader to log in the database with the computer in the library.
Electronic Databases

It incorporates China Online Journals Database, China Dissertation Database, China Conference Paper Database, China Technology Information System and China Commercial Information System. Most materials are accessible in full-text.
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It presents a diversity of full-text documents and collects academic journals, dissertations and conference papers of all fields. It collects more than 2 million articles from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.

The AccessScience features the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology and weekly articles on the latest breaking news. It covers all areas of science and technology plus full-text features of biographies, news, learning resources, study guides and many other related sites.

For researchers, students, professionals and others interested in environmental and sustainability topics, GALE IN CONTEXT │ Environmental Studies is an authoritative, intuitive resource that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, case study statistics and more into a Web-like experience.

The database consists of documents on Western missionaries’ quest in China. Through recovery and digital technology, it allows academics and researchers to trace records through these time-honoured or even unpublished documents.

Hands Publishers Chinese Academic Journals covers content from various fields including mathematics and physics, biological science, chemistry and material science, ecology, medicine and health, engineering and technology, information and communication, humanities and social science, and economics and management. Its articles have been collected for reputed open access academic databases DOAJ and others such as CNKI Scholar, Wanfang Data (China), CQVIP. All journals are available on an open access basis.
Children's Learning

In vivid colour and an interesting style, ‘National Geographic Kids’ themed around nature and science, introduces nature and children’s films to kids. The database also comprises children’s eBooks published by National Geographic.

Real-life stories for children aged above three. They cover natural science and humanities in everyday life. Videos and audios in the book allow children to understand nature and learn English.

This children’s database fosters infants and primary students’ elementary self-learning ability. It provides access to English articles about science, history, geography, biography, literature, health and sports etc. with text at the appropriate level along with resplendent images .The database has a simple user interface.

This is a database for teenagers English from primary level. It includes nearly 200 illustrated electronic books in English relating to literature, biography, science, arts and reference materials.
