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Emerald

Emerald was founded in 1967 by scholars from Bradford University Management Center, one of the world's top 100 business schools. From the publication of the only journal to becoming one of the largest publishing houses of management journals in the world, Emerald has been committing to the publication of management, library science, engineering expert review journals, as well as humanities and social sciences books. The following content ordered by the library can be accessed on the Emerald search platform:  Full-text journal library of management (2000-)  Full-text journal library of engineering (2000-)  E-book series  Full-text journal retrospective database (from its inception to 2000)  Platform auxiliary resources:  Case study collection: more than 2000 selected case studies from well-known enterprises such as Coca Cola, IBM, Toyota, Glaxo Smith Kline and Hilton Group.  Literature Review Collection: more than 700 academic review articles from authoritative academic publications in the field.  Interview Collection: the think tank of more than 500 global business and management masters, providing vivid and interesting interview records of "influential men in the business community". They are: Peter Drucker, John Kotter, Jim Collins, Richard Pascale and Rosabeth Moss Kanter  Management Book Review Collection: more than 2600 in-depth book reviews specially written for students, teachers and research scholars. 

Elsevier ScienceDirect journal

Elsevier ScienceDirect Database (SD, formerly known as Elsevier Science) is one of the world famous full-text scientific literature databases produced by Elsevier Publishing Group in the Netherlands. Resources on the ScienceDirect platform are divided into four major subject areas: Natural Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical/health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. Including chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth and planetary science, engineering, energy, materials science, mathematics, science and astronomy, agriculture and biology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, environmental science, immunology and microscopic study, neuroscience, and oral medicine, nursing and health, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacology, veterinary science, arts and humanities, business, management and accounting, decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, psychology, social sciences, etc. In a simple and intuitive interface, researchers can browse the full text of more than 14 million articles in more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals, dating back to 1823. 

EBSCO

EBSCO was founded in 1944 and has a history of more than seven decades. EBSCO is not only the largest integrated database publisher and journal agent in Asia, but also in the world. It provides international online ordering services and is a technology pioneer among its integrated database peers. EBSCO One-Stop Search provides readers with a convenient one-stop service, through which readers can access all the resources on the EBSCO Ehost platform ordered by the library. The literature covers all disciplines such as science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, astronomy, geography, biology, and economics. ​

Compustat (Co-construction with the college of management) (WRDS platform)

Compustat financial and price database is the product of Standard & Poor's, a famous American credit rating company. WRDS platform is the world's leading research data platform and business intelligence tool provided by Wharton data research center for users. Compustat database can be accessed through WRDS (i.e., Wharton platform). The library ordered the following from the Compustat database:  Compustat Global ex North Amercia, Compustat (except North America): provide complete financial data and market data of more than 42,000 companies worldwide (except North America) (in which 26,000 companies include fundamental data, 16,000 companies include market price data, i.e., daily closing price), including active companies and inactive companies (delisted or delisted). It also concludes the basic historical data of listed companies with daily public transactions in more than 80 countries which can be traced back to 20 years before and the price data which can be traced back to 1989. The data is updated monthly. 

CNKI Chinese Economic and Social Big Data Research Platform

The China Economic and Social Big Data Research Platform was originally the China Economic and Social Development Statistical Database. It is a large-scale statistical data database that integrates the functions of statistical data resource integration, data in-depth mining and analysis, and multi-dimensional statistical index quick retrieval. Literature resources cover 32 fields / industries of Chinese economic and social development, including all statistical yearbooks and various statistical data (census data, survey data, compilation of historical statistical data, etc.) at the central, provincial and major prefectural and municipal levels. It also published 6700 progress indicators of the latest economic operation data and 28000 industry operation indicators of the national economy of the National Bureau of Statistics and various ministries and commissions.  

CNKI platform

CNKI stands for National Knowledge Infrastructure. CNKI project was initiated by Tsinghua University and Tsinghua Tong fang, which was established in June 1999. Multiple databases can be retrieved on the CNKI retrieval platform, such as journal papers, doctoral theses, conference papers, newspapers, yearbooks, encyclopedias, patents, standards, etc., but only the databases ordered by the following libraries can download the full text, and the rest can only browse the abstract information:

BvD Series Library (jointly built with the School of Economics and the Institute of Finance).

Bureau van Dijk Editions Electroniques SA (BvD) is a well-known European electronic provider of global financial and corporate credit analysis databases. BvD provides professional data on international financial and national macroeconomic trends for government financial regulators, banks and financial institutions, securities investment companies, etc. At the same time, BvD is also Europe's largest provider of corporate credit analysis data, with more than 10 million enterprise credit analysis libraries and global mergers and acquisitions analysis libraries in Europe,   which widely for Europe and the United States and other countries of the financial and educational institutions long-term subscription use. 

ASTM Compass (American Society for Testing and Materials)

American Society for Testing and Materials, established in 1898, is one of the biggest and eldest non-profit standards developing organizations. Its mission is to develop traits and performance standards, testing methods and procedure standards in the fields of materials, products, systems, and service. It also promotes the development and popularization of relevant knowledge. 

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) was founded in 1880 and now is an international non-profit organization of educational and technical with more than 125,000 members worldwide. ASME is one of the largest technical publishing organizations in the world, holding about 30 major technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year, developing a wide range of industrial and manufacturing industry standards. ASME now has 600 standards and codes for industrial and manufacturing industries, which are adopted in more than 90 countries around the world. 

ASCE

American Society of Civil Engineers was founded in 1852, a national specialized engineer society with the longest history. Now, as a global leader in the field of civil engineering, the service has covered 130 thousand specialists from 159 countries. In order to encourage information exchange, ASCE has established partnership with 65 civil engineering societies of other countries.