CUHK Library E-newsletter

Did You Know You Can Find Answers to Your Questions in the Library FAQs?

Do you have a question about the library services? The Library FAQs may have the answer for you! Available online in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, the Library FAQs provide clear, concise, and step-by-step answers for your reference.

The Library FAQs cover a wide range of topics, from accessing library resources (e.g. What is my login ID and password for library services?) to borrowing services (e.g. How can I return books when the Library is closed?). You may browse them by topics or search them by keywords and get the answers anytime anywhere.

The Library FAQs are regularly updated to ensure you have the most current information. If your question cannot be found in the Library FAQs, you are welcome to contact us and our staff will be happy to help you out.

Please visit https://libanswers.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/ for more details.

IRIS: A New Portal to CUHK’s Research Findings

Part of the Library’s role is to help disseminate research findings from our university. To enhance the public presentation of our high-impact research, CUHK is launching a new Institutional Research Information System (IRIS) in 2025. IRIS will capture, manage, and showcase different facets of CUHK's research information. The Library has established mechanisms to automate the retrieval of CUHK articles published in major research databases, to make it easier for researchers to have comprehensive listings of their recent publications in the university’s portal. The system caters to new forms of research output, including music scores, sound recordings, publications in magazines and news, preprints, and protocols. Knowledge transfer activities are also featured so that IRIS provides a view into various activities our academics undertake, such as event organization, external partnerships, professional services and training, outreach and community engagement.

IRIS also serves as an institutional repository to support open access publishing. IRIS supports the self-archiving of full text under Creative Commons terms and postprints, also known as accepted manuscripts. CUHK Library will assist with the deposit of full text to ensure that the articles available for public download comply with publishers’ policies.

IRIS is a user-friendly portal that presents complete researcher profiles. Given IRIS's broad coverage of research information, it can assist researchers in pulling together their research information to describe their impact story. The IRIS Public Portal will launch for public access later in 2025.

To find out more about the IRIS Project, please visit http://iris.cuhk.edu.hk/