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Expiry date: 31 May 2024

Great news! We're extending this challenge.
More time to visit, share, and win exciting prizes!

Have you ever noticed the students’ success stories featured in the PolyU Outstanding Work by Students (OWS) Showcase? Now's your chance to learn from them, share your insights, and win a fantastic prize!

Our OWS Showcase, in both physical and online forms, covers two types of student works: (1) exceptional individual or group works that achieve internal or external recognition, and (2) motivational social innovation projects that contribute towards societal betterment.

The learning-to-learn experiences behind the exemplary student works are documented to foster knowledge sharing in the PolyU community. Let’s get inspired by your peers and join this inspiration challenge!

How?

1. Read through a student story in the OWS Showcase on Library Podium Floor or OWS portal.
2. Share how the story inspires you on your own Facebook/Instagram account, including:
   (a) An image OR a video featuring the OWS story
   (b) A brief explanation (40+ words) about your takeaway
   (c) Add hashtags #PolyUOWS and #PolyULibrary
3. Email a screenshot of your post to lbueo@polyu.edu.hk with the subject line “Submission for OWS Inspiration Challenge”. Provide your name and student ID in the email.
4. The Challenge is open to PolyU students. Each participant can submit one entry only.

When?

Submissions will be accepted until 30 April 2024.

Prizes

Submissions will be evaluated based on creativity, originality, and constructiveness. All satisfactory entries will be recognized with a Gold, Silver, or Bronze category, each receiving a book voucher prize (Gold - $300, Silver - $200, Bronze - $100).

Should you have further enquiries, please contact us by email at lbueo@polyu.edu.hk.

Don’t miss this opportunity to get inspired and stand a chance to win!

scite is an AI platform that uses Smart Citations to evaluate scientific articles by showing reference context and indicating supporting or contrasting evidence. This tool can assist scholars in undertaking citation analysis and examining the publication landscape of their research topics.

Features:

• Search over 1.2 billion citation statements for how methods, arguments, results, claims, and datasets are being used
• Visualise how scientific articles cite each other through scite Visualisations
• Use scite Reference Check to ensure you cite reliable work by screening against retracted references

Try scite now!

Workshop: Facilitate Your Research with scite

Date: 11 April 2024 (Thurs) 
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm 
Speaker: Mr Wu Yan, Trainer from scite 
Moderator: Ms Elaine Lau, Faculty Librarian (Engineering)  
Platform: Zoom 

Register Now!

This workshop is designed to introduce features that scite offers on the general level, with searches and AI chats on the detailed level. It will cover:

• Use scenarios and overview of scite.ai functionalities
• Utilise and benefit from smart citation
• Supercharge LLMs to accelerate academic study

All staff and students are welcome!

For enquiries, please contact us at our various service points or submit an online form to us. For learning and research support, get in touch with your Faculty Librarian.

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