General reading skills

	Adapting your reading strategies to different materials A quick overview of essential reading skills. Stresses the importance of applying the right skills fro reading at the appropriate depth.
	Learning to read faster Explains how some reading habits cause people to read slowly.

Reading skills for university studies

Reading in the sciences Describes the characteristics of scientific writing and provides a step-to-step guide to handling this kind of material.

Reading materials

	South China Morning Post A good source of local news stories (but the Premium View stories are now for subscribers only).
	The New York Times An excellent site for in-depth news stories. Other features like Opinion and Magazine are also very interesting.
	http://www.time.com/time/
	New Scientist
	Scientific American
	Far East Economic Review
	New Internationalist Reports on world issues of injustice and poverty.
	Academic Universe This is one of the databases that the University Library subscribes to. Excellent resource if you are looking for articles in magazines and newspapers about a certain topic. This is also the easiest way to look up articles in SCMP. Updated to the last few days. Access via HKUST Library website.
	Proquest Direct This is also one of the databases that the University Library subscribes to. Excellent resource if you are looking for articles in professional and popular magazines about a certain topic. Access via HKUST Library website.