Tag: Open Access

Discover the Revamped PolyU OER Portal: Smarter Learning, Easier Teaching, and Powered by AI

Check out the revamped PolyU Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal! Its new AI Mode works like a personal assistant, helping you instantly generate study plans, teaching prompts, and innovative activity ideas. Don’t miss this award-nominated platform, recently shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Open Education Awards for Excellence!

Streamline Your Research Project with the New Data Management Plan Service

A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a comprehensive document detailing how you will manage your research data throughout a project. Crafting a DMP offers significant benefits to researchers. Further strengthening the University’s open access policy, the Library has introduced the DMP Service on the DMP Tool online platform. Explore this new service to enhance your data management process.

AI for All: Explore and Share Resources on the PolyU OER Portal

AI is transforming the job market, making AI skills essential for your future. Explore curated videos, MOOCs, case studies, and websites on the PolyU Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal—covering writing prompts, AI basics, and workflow automation tools. Search, review feedback, and share resources to support collaborative learning. Empower your studies and join a vibrant, knowledge-sharing community with the PolyU OER Portal today!

PolyU Digital University Collection: PolyU History and Beyond

The PolyU Digital University Collection, accessible via the Digital Collections Portal, is a rich repository that goes beyond documenting the history of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It also features invaluable content related to Hong Kong’s industrial development and various academic disciplines.

Fostering Open Science through PolyU Institutional Research Archive and PolyU Research Data Repository

Open science is a global movement aimed at making research freely accessible and transparent to everyone. Embrace open access for your research outputs and open data by utilising the PolyU Institutional Research Archive (PIRA) and the PolyU Research Data Repository. This will not only support the open science movement but also enhance the visibility of research by our research staff and postgraduate students.

Curated Educational Resources for You: PolyU Open Educational Resources (OER) Portal

When you need supplementary learning materials beyond your course readings, the PolyU OER Portal is your go-to resource. It offers a vast collection of videos, MOOCs, case studies, and lectures, all meticulously curated by subject librarians and faculty members, and endorsed by senior students. You can easily find what you need by searching with subject, course code, or keyword. Plus, student reviews are available to help you select the most beneficial materials for your studies.

Share Your Research Data on the PolyU Research Data Repository

The PolyU Research Data Repository is a platform launched in Fall 2024, designed for PolyU members to deposit, manage, and share valuable research data for open access. Explore the features of the Repository and get ready to share your data effectively.

Enhanced Open Access Publishing: Explore an Expanded List of Publishers

Now PolyU corresponding authors have additional options to publish open access articles with a full waiver of Article Processing Charges (APCs). We have new Transformative Agreements (TA) with additional leading publishers, which will provide greater options for open access publishing. Learn more.

Embrace Open Access Publishing: Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Sharing

Embracing open access enables us to reach a global audience, foster collaboration and accelerate innovation. PolyU Library has signed a number of transformative agreements with renowned publishers to promote open research and publishing within our university community. Depositing your Final Accepted Manuscripts into the PolyU Institutional Research Archive (PIRA) is another way to increase your research visibility and make your work openly accessible to a wide-ranging audience. Learn more.

PolyU Digital University Collection

The newly released PolyU Digital University Collection contains selected featured works and publications documenting the development of the University after 1951. For wider access, the collection is now available for open access by everyone, including the PolyU community and the general public.

Publish in Open Access without Article Processing Charge(APC)? – OA Options for PolyU Authors

Making your research open can increase the visibility of your works and research. Be it Open Access through Self-Archival in PolyU Institutional Research Archive (PIRA) or Open Access via Publishing, there is always an OA option for researchers with different research goals.

The Historian-in-Residence: Dr Joseph Ting Digital Humanities Website

Dr Ting Sun-pao, Joseph, is an eminent scholar of the history of Hong Kong and was PolyU’s Historian-in-Residence 2018/19. He shared various valuable talks, exhibitions, and study tours with the PolyU community through the years. The newly launched website collects and preserves all the information of the Historian-in-Residence: Dr Joseph Ting digital humanities project so that users can re-use them for academic scholar research and reference easily.

Digital Collection of PolyU Artist-in-Residence Programme

If you have missed the events of Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme hosted by the PolyU Culture Promotion Committee, you can now freely access the official materials and multimedia contents through this digital collection. Let’s explore the cultural gems of the PolyU community!