Library Workshops

If you are studying, researching, or teaching Health Sciences subjects, you must not miss this specialised webinar. We will enable you to search across various health sciences databases effectively, and will share some practical searching tips as well.

Databases covered in this workshop include:

• PubMed
• CINAHL
• EMbase
• PsycINFO
• Cochrane Library

This webinar will demonstrate how to locate critical information to support business research: country forecast, industry and market outlook, company profile, brokerage report, news and journal article. 

Databases covered in this workshop includes: 

• Economist Intelligence Unit
• Passport
• Bloomberg Professional Services
• Factiva
• Business Source Complete

What constitutes plagiarism? Would it still be plagiarism if you have cited your references correctly?

Join us to find out more about what constitutes plagiarism, learn some techniques to avoid plagiarism, and the concepts of reference types and citation styles. Instructor will demonstrate basic features of EndNote to help you better organize your references to make citing easier. Some commonly used plagiarism detection tools will also be introduced.

You may read the library guide before the workshop: Library Support for Academic Integrity.

This workshop is designed to introduce Bloomberg databases in the PolyU collection to new users. It will cover:

• How to get started using the Bloomberg keyboard
• Understanding the flow of system logic to make it work for you
• Global Market information
• Introduction on Fixed income securities in Bloomberg
• Finding details on individual securities
• How to gain access to information 24/7 and support via Help

Statista gives access to more than one million statistics on 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources covering roughly 170 industry sectors.

This online workshop will show you how to search and find useful statistics in Statista quickly, easily and with confidence:

• Introduction to Statista with Global Consumer Survey
• Effective ways to search for statistics and forecasts on topics of interest
• Tips & tricks on using the Statista platform including Global Consumer Survey

CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. Users get fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and more, from 1937 to the present. Medline is widely recognised as a premier source of biomedical literature. The Medline collection via EBSCOhost in the library contains more than 25 million records from 5,200+ selected publications from 1946 to the present.

Workshop Outline:

• Basic functions of CINAHL Complete and Medline
• Construct effective search statements using keyword, MeSH and CINAHL Subject Headings
• 7 Steps to the perfect PICO Search 
• Tips on conducting systematic reviews with CINAHL Complete and Medline

SciFinder-n is a research tool that allows you to access the world's largest collection of biochemical, chemical, chemical engineering, medical, and other related information.

SciFinder-n provides access to the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service and Medline. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database.

Workshop Outline:

• Improve search efficiency with SciFinder-n's relevance ranking, Boolean operators and unique filter options 
• Explore both journal and patent literature with ease using CAS indexing and PatentPak
• Run complex structure searches in just one click
• Use Synthetic Methods and Retrosynthesis for reaction searching

This workshop will help you learn how to use Bloomberg tools to gain insight into global equity markets. It will cover:

• Global Market Overview – Security Information, Equities & Index Prices
• Equity Analysis Basics – News, Charting, Financials, Major Shareholders
• Equity Comparison – Estimates, Analyst Recommendation, Relative Valuation
• Current Awareness – News functions for real time updates

This workshop will introduce Lexis Advance Hong Kong and how to search legal documents to support your study and research. Lexis Advance Hong Kong, formerly LexisNexis HK, is a database that offers various types of Hong Kong law materials, including law cases, legislation, commentary, journals, source directory, etc. Workshop will include hands-on practice using the database. All students and staff who have a need to use legal resources are welcome to join!

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Understand basic functions of Lexis Advance Hong Kong
• Navigate the platform and search for legal documents effectively
• Use dictionary and translation to check legal terminology

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote 21.

In this highly interactive workshop, the instructor will use the Library EndNote Guide to lead you through several EndNote tasks, such as creating an EndNote library, adding, editing and managing references, and making bibliographies, etc. 

Please note that this workshop will mainly cover Modules 1 to 5 of the EndNote Online Course.

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote 21.

In this highly interactive workshop, the instructor will use the Library EndNote Guide to lead you through several EndNote tasks, such as creating an EndNote library, adding, editing and managing references, and making bibliographies, etc. 

Please note that this workshop will mainly cover Modules 1 to 5 of the EndNote Online Course.

Web of Science and Scopus are important core citation databases which enable users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from leading international research journals and conference proceedings.   

 In this workshop, participants will use both databases to locate seminal works by topic and author. H-index, which can be used to measure the research performance of an author, will also be introduced. Through the activities, you will be able to identify the differences brought by these two core citation databases and use them for your research.  

This workshop aims to introduce key tools and metrics to evaluate journals, including Impact Factor and Journal Citation Indicator in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and CiteScore, SJR, SNIP in Scopus. You will learn how to evaluate and rank journals using these tools.

You may read library guide of Journal Impact before attending the workshop

InCites Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is research performance analytical tool based on Web of Science Core Collection data. It compiles statistical information (publication, citation, and cites-per-paper counts) for scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. This workshop will show participants how to use this valuable tool to:

• reveal trends and emerging areas of research
• identify influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals and countries by research field