The SAR's first open-access books program, Open Books Hong Kong - a joint effort by three major universities - allows free global access to selected books in a bid to foster global knowledge sharing.
Collaborating institutions are The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong.
Since yesterday, the initiative has released nine books in the fields of humanities and social sciences, with more in the pipeline.
The released books are Chinese-language works, authored by distinguished Hong Kong and international scholars.
The program hopes to address the significant gap in open-access resources for Chinese-language monographs.
Books include The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature and Agency in Mao's China, 1949-1976 by He Qiliang and Graphic Images and Consumer Culture: Analysis of Modern Advertising Culture in China by Wu Yongmei and Lee Pui-tak.
