The Learning Resource Centre is offering access to six new databases, including CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) , zbMATH Open, East Asia Digital Library (EADL), SAGE Business Cases, EndNote Online and 华艺电子书数据库.
1. CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library)
CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) is a government-sponsored cooperative project of more than 120 academic libraries (2020), about half of which are from China, to create electronic resources for the use of their patrons. The major resource created by CADAL is a collection of 2.67 million scanned books and is constantly increasing.
Please note that new users must first create an account with their UIC email address.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
2. zbMATH Open
zbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) is the world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It provides easy access to bibliographic data, reviews and abstracts from all areas of pure mathematics as well as applications, in particular to natural sciences, computer science, economics and engineering. It also covers history and philosophy of mathematics and university education. Currently, zbMATH Open contains around 4.2 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts drawn from more than 3,000 journals and book series, and some 190,000 books.
Discipline: Mathematics
3. East Asia Digital Library (EADL)
The East Asia Digital Library (EADL) is a portal site that offers East Asia’s cultural and academic digital resources. This is an accomplishment of a partnership between the National Library of Korea and the National Diet Library of Japan, officially launched in November 2020. EADL has two types of digital resources. One is bibliographic data of digitized old books provided by participating institutions. The other is thematic digital collections selected by each participating institution.
Discipline: History, Culture
4. SAGE Business Cases
SAGE Business Cases is a digital collection of business cases providing faculty, students and researchers with unlimited access to more than 3,650 authoritative cases from over 100 countries. It includes interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more.
Teaching notes are for faculty only. Please contact library via email for the access code.
Discipline: Business; Management
5. EndNote Online
EndNote is an online citation management that helps you manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. You could collect and sort all your research references and full text articles in an EndNote online library, then link to Word documents to create properly formatted documents and bibliographies.
Please note that there are two versions of EndNote — EndNote Online and EndNote Desktop, and LRC only subscribes to EndNote Online.
Discipline: Tools, Multidisciplinary
6. 华艺电子书数据库
华艺电子书数据库是目前中国台湾地区收录数量最大的电子书数据库，收录超过30,000册优质书籍，并持续更新。图书涵盖教育、法学、语言学、文学、哲学、应用科学、社会科学、宗教、艺术、地理研究等130余种主题，全面覆盖不同学科需求。本数据库提供电脑端在线阅读和App下载阅读两种方式。
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
You may access the new databases via E-resources on LRC website.
Please note:
Simply click on individual databases to gain direct access when you are on campus. Otherwise, you need to use the CISCO VPN service to access the e-resources off campus (i.e. at dormitory, home, etc).
As always, your feedback is most valuable to us. Please send your comments to library@uic.edu.cn, or call us at 3620318.
