e-Resources
  Online Databases, E-journals & E-books
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Title Description
50 Lessons Comprises 1,200 video lessons from 250 global business leaders covering a wide range of industry sectors and job functions and offer guidance, inspiration and support for success with today’s most pressing business issues. Topics include Leadership, Communications Skills, People Development, Strategic Management, Change Management, Global Business, Innovation & Creativity, Career & Personal Development, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship and more.
ABI-INFORM Complete Consists of a comprehensive database covering over 4,975 business and management journals from around the world. Includes information on almost 200,000 companies, with coverage from 1992 onwards and with a backfile coverage dating to 1923. Also offers access to over 18,000 full-text business Doctoral dissertations and Master’s theses.
Academic Search Premier Comprises a multi-disciplinary database that contains over 8,450 journals with full-text offered for more than 4,600 of these titles. PDF backfiles date to 1975 or even further for over 100 journals.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Electronic Library Offers full-text articles from core aerospace journals with backfiles dating back to 1963.
Asia-Studies Full-Text Online Encapsulates a premier database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. Brings together full-text of reports covering 55 countries on a multitude of issues related to business, government, economy, and society.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Comprehensively covers all ACM journals and magazines with an archive from the 1950's forward.

3 simultaneous users only at any one time
Blackwell Reference Online Furnished with over 30 of Blackwell’s best business and management titles. Includes an up-to-date edition of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management.
Bloomberg Professional Service Provides real-time data, analytics, history and news. Useful for researching industry and company trends, as well as quantitative analysis and forecasting.

This database can be accessed only at the Tay Eng Soon Library
Business Source Complete Integrates full-text content of journals in all disciplines of business dating as far back as 1886. Complemented by Harvard Business Review from 1922. Also includes market research reports, case studies, and author profiles.
BusinessPro (Ebooks) Constitutes a full-text database of over 3,900 business books covering over 75 different business topics from over 100 of the world’s most reputable publishers.
Career Insider Provides career information to research employers, industries and career subjects. Includes Vault career guides, articles on career advice, as well as profiles on employers, companies, industries and occupations.

For information on career resources, please access Ministry of Manpower and Quintessential Careers

China Academic Journals Full-text Database (CAJ)

Consists of an expansive collection of Chinese journals covering literature, history, philosophy and early childhood education with full-text for over 800 academic journals from 1994.







Includes over 300 Doctoral dissertations and Masters theses from 1999 onward covering literature, history and philosophy.

(SIM Library subscription limited to full-text from period 2005-2010)


First time user, please click here to install the CAJ reader before using the database. Click here for user guide.

China Doctoral/Masters Dissertations Full-text Database





Includes over 300 Doctoral dissertations and Masters theses from 1999 onward covering literature, history and philosophy.

(SIM Library subscription limited to full-text from period 2006-2011)


First time user, please click here to install the CAJ reader before using the database. Click here for user guide.

E-Annual Reports Useful to obtain quick access to a company's annual performance, financials, and outlook for the future. Limited to companies listed with the Singapore Stock Exchange.

The following online databases are useful to obtain information on other local companies as well as overseas companies: Factiva, Business Source Complete, Emerging Markets Information Service.

E-Journals Click here for list of E-Journal titles
Ebrary Academic Complete (Ebooks) Equipped with an interactive eBook database with over 30,000 titles covering academic subject areas from more than 220 of the world's leading academic, STM and professional publishers.
Education Online Collection The online collection features over 150 journals from 1997 to present on a wide variety of topics related to Education. Subject coverage includes Curriculum Studies, Early Years Education, Education Research, Educational Leadership and Management, Further & Higher Education, History of Education, Science Education, Sociology of Education, Special Needs & Educational Psychology and Teaching and Teacher Education.
EIU Country Reports Furnished with country reports of recent political and economic developments; includes detailed reviews of economic policy and forecast, and key data and statistics for Australia, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam.
Emerging Markets Information Service Furnished with news, company and financial data directly from more than 80 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

7 concurrent users only at any one time
ERIC Provides access to education literature and resources from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Factiva Provides current and archive news and business information from over 25,000 sources of newswires, newspapers and magazines in over 22 languages from 159 countries.

15 simultaneous users only at any one time.
JSTOR This database consists of Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, IV & VI which offers core journals from 21 disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as well as the profession of business, education, and law.
MLA Directory of Periodicals Offers information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography Produced by the Modern Language Association, the MLA International Bibliography offers journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's. The bibliography contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Newslink An online newspaper archival service covering 16 unique newspapers published by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
One-stop Search (A-to-Z) Search for titles in ACM, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, ABI-INFORM Complete, Factiva, IEEE ASPP, PsycARTICLES, PsycBooks..
Passport GMID Offers a single gateway to business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries of more than 205 countries. It includes internationally comparable statistics, topical comments and latest consumer lifestyle research reports.
Political Science Complete Contains full text for over 400 journals, and indexes and abstracts over 2,000 titles, including British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. Offers a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. Also features over 180 full-text books and 27,000 full-text conference papers.
ProjectMUSE Provides full-text online access to a comprehensive selection of humanities and social sciences journals.
PsycARTICLES Enlists over 140,000 full-text articles from over 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other publishers Coverage spans 1894 to present.
PsycINFO Contains American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Covers peer-reviewed literature in behavioural science and mental health. Contains over 2.6 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Coverage spans from 1887 to present.
Research Starter - Education Research Starters - Education provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.
Research Starters - Business Research Starters – Business are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.
Research Starters - Sociology Research Starters – Sociology are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.
ScienceDirect Provides a searchable database with access to journals, abstracts, references and full-text articles in Business disciplines.
Social Work Abstracts Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

4 concurrent users only at any one time
SocINDEX with full-text Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines. Integrates full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908, along with full-text for over 820 books, and 13,947 conference papers. Projects 25,000 author profiles covering the most prolific most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
World Scientific (Ebooks) Offers ebooks on subjects ranging from Environmental Sciences, to Finance and Economics.
E-Journals
Title Availability
Accounting Forum From 2004- (Full-Text)
Accounting, Organizations and Society From 1995- (Full-Text)
Acta Biomaterialia From 2005- (Full-Text)
Action Learning : Research and Practice From 2004
Ageing & Society From 1997.
Annual Review of Psychology From 1950
Applied Ergonomics From 1995- (Full-Text)
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature From 2003-2007 (Full-Text)
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources From 2005- (Full-Text)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering From 1993- (Full-Text)
Asian Case Research Journal (ACRJ) From 2001- (Full-Text)
Asian Journal of Communication From 1997- (Full-Text)
Babel : International Journal of Translation From 2008.
British Accounting Review From 1995- (Full-Text)
Business Horizons From 1995- (Full-Text)
Business Strategy Review From 1997- (Full-Text)
Child Development From 1997-2011
Child Development Perspectives From 2007-2011
CIO From 1994- (Full-Text)
Cognition From 1995.
Cognition & Emotion From 1997-2011
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood From 2000
Critical Perspectives on Accounting From 1995- (Full-Text)
Current Directions in Psychological Science From 1999- (Full-Text)
Early Child Development and Care From 1997
Early Childhood Research Quarterly From 1995
ELT Journal From 1996-2011
Employment Relations Today From 1997- (Full-Text)
English Today From 2001- (Full-Text)
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal From 1997
European Journal of Information Systems From 2004-2007 (Full-Text)
European Management Journal From 2001- (Full-Text)
Event Management 2011
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services From 1980- (Full-Text)
Futures From 1995- (Full-Text)
Health From 2004-2008 (Full-Text)
Human factors : the journal of the human factors and ergonomics society From 1999- (Full-Text)
Human Resource Management From 1996- (Full-Text)
Industrial Marketing Management From 1995- (Full-Text)
Information & Management From 1995- (Full-Text)
Information and Organization From 2001- (Full-Text)
International Business Review From 1995- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Accounting From 1996- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems From 2000- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning From 2008- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Forecasting From 1995- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Information Management From 1995- (Full-Text)
International Journal of Research in Marketing From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Accounting and Economics From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Accounting Education From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Advanced Nursing From 2004-2008 (Full-Text)
Journal of Business Research From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Business Venturing From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Commonwealth Literature From 1999- (Full-Text)
Journal of Communication From 1997-2006 (Full-Text)
Journal of Early Childhood Research From 2003
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education From 1997
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Facilities Management From 2002.
Journal of Happiness Studies From 2000-2011
Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of International Management From 1998- (Full-Text)
Journal of Management From 2005-2007 (Full-Text)
Journal of Organizational Behavior From 1996- (Full-Text)
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management From 2003- (Full-Text)
Journal of Research in Personality From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Retailing From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services From 1995- (Full-Text)
Journal of Visualization From 1998.
Journal of World Business From 2001- (Full-Text)
Knowledge and Process Management From 1997-2006 (Full-Text)
Leader to Leader From 1996- (Full-Text)
Leadership in Action From 1996- (Full-Text)
Leadership Quarterly From 1995- (Full-Text)
Long Range Planning From 1995- (Full-Text)
Management Accounting Research From 2001- (Full-Text)
Media, Culture and Society From 2005-2008 (Full-Text)
Migration Letters : An International Journal on Migration Studies From 2004
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development From 1997-2011
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development From 1996-2007 (Full-Text)
Nursing Forum From 2006-2008 (Full-Text)
Omega From 1995- (Full-Text)
Organizational Dynamics From 1995- (Full-Text)
Personality and Individual Differences From 1995
Perspectives on Psychological Science From 2006- (Full-Text)
Psychological Science From 1999- (Full-Text)
Psychological Science in the Public Interest From 2000- (Full-Text)
Public Relations Review From 1995- (Full-Text)
RELC Journal From 1999- (Full-Text)
Research Policy From 1995- (Full-Text)
Scandinavian Journal of Management From 1995- (Full-Text)
Signs : Journal of Women in Culture and Society From 2002- (Full-Text)
Singapore Economic Review (SER) From 2001- (Full-Text)
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences From 1995- (Full-Text)
Sociology From 1967- (Full-Text)
Strategic Management Journal From 1996- (Full-Text)
Technological Forecasting and Social Change From 1995- (Full-Text)
Telecommunications Policy From 1995- (Full-Text)
The Gerontologist From 1996.
The Journal of Positive Psychology From 2006- (Full-Text)
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems From 1995- (Full-Text)
The New Zealand Journal of Human Resources Management From 2001.
The Translator : Studies in Intercultural Communication From 1995- (Full-Text)
Thunderbird International Business Review From 1996- (Full-Text)
Utilities Policy From 1995- (Full-Text)
World Englishes From 1997-2011