The Works section offers visitors a little more context pertaining to featured pieces. Though the site could benefit from a little more overall description, the amount of material available is astonishing. Articles are organized chronologically by issue, and recently SSR has also begun to arrange them thematically, in an attempt to foster online scholarly debate. In addition, SSR provides a Pinboard section, which contains conferences and calls for papers, a bulletin board, and a reports section where interested users are encouraged to file short reports summarizing conferences attended. The somewhat cryptic interface allows for both simple and complex searches, with the complex search allowing users to specify type of music, general theme, language, and publication type.
Users can consult a list of related journals and their abbreviations.
Recent updates to the database, as well as new and forthcoming items, are also available. As the person in charge of improving and shaping the University of Science and Technology's education systems, Professor Peter Dobson is often sought for creative solutions. From a two-week study tour of universities in the United Stares, Professor Dobson has gathered many innovative educational ideas and programmes. He said the tour had encouraged him with the university's activities in Hong Kong. We toured universities such as Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and Phoenix, and, in all but a few cases, what these renowned institutions were doing to advance education was similar to projects already being undertaken in Hong Kong.