Library Workshops for Postgraduate Students and Faculty will be available in January and February. Program 1: Literature Review for a Successful Paper
This workshop will demonstrate how to apply the collected materials in literature review and address researched question in paper writing. | Jan 13 (Tue) | 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
| Jan 28 (Wed) | 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. |
| Feb 7 (Sat) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
Program 2: Finding Theses and Dissertations
Learn how to locate theses and dissertations by students from universities in Hong Kong, China and other countries.
| Jan 24 (Sat) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
| Feb 9 (Mon) | 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. |
Program 3: Managing Your Research with RefWorks Flow
Demonstrates how to use RefWorks to create in-text citations and bibliographies in a variety of citation styles (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) while writing your assignments. This workshop will also introduce using Flow, the new platform for citation and full-text article management.
| Jan 24 (Sat) | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| Feb 12 (Thu) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Program 4: Research Alert: Keeping Up-to-date in Your Research Area
Demonstrates how to create search alerts for the new relevant search results to be automatically sent to you by email. The alert features of Web of Science Citation Databases, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEE Explore, EBSCOhost and ProQuest will be introduced. Setting up of citation and table of contents alerts, where appropriate, will also be covered.
The workshop will be best for participants who have some basic skills in searching databases.
| Jan 19 (Mon) | 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Jan 26 (Mon) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Program 5: Creating Your Researcher Identifiers and Maintaining Research Profile
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) and ResearcherID allow researchers to register for a unique identifier at their websites. With the identifier, publications of an author can be linked together showing the research profile. In the workshop, participants can register for the unique identifiers. How to add professional information and research outputs to the accounts will be covered. The uses of Scopus ID will also be introduced.
| Feb 2 (Mon) | 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
| Feb 10 (Tue) | 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
Venue: Multi-purpose Room 1, 1/F, University Library
Registration: Complete the Online Registration Form
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese, but will change to English when there is any student who does not know Cantonese.
