Library Workshops

This workshop aims at helping postgraduate students to utilize Library services and resources available to them. Using the Library homepage as a starting point, participants will learn how to:

• Find and request books available in and beyond the PolyU Library
• Identify relevant electronic resources for research purpose
• Find journal articles and theses.

Various search techniques for focusing your topics will be discussed.

Target participants: Postgraduate students

Factiva is a premium global news and business database which gives you immediate access to over 35,000 sources in 28 languages from nearly 200 countries. The coverage includes US and international newspapers, newswires, trade journals, influential websites, blogs, images and videos. The quick snapshot and data for company and industry also allow you to gain business insight in seconds.

Target participants: Users who need news and business information

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote X8 – from downloading the software, adding references, organizing and managing references, to creating bibliographies in different citation styles. Participants will be able to work on the software and experience different features through hands-on exercises.

You may read the EndNote guide before the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote 

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

OneSearch provides a one-stop search for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles. The participants of the workshop will learn to use OneSearch to find all types of library resources, and some advanced techniques, such as saving search alerts, viewing search history, exporting records, etc.

Target participants: All users

This workshop will equip students with essential information skills to locate reference materials on languages, cultural and social aspects of society, as well as humanities. Participants will have hands-on exercises on finding quick references from OneSearch, developing research ideas and gathering critical background information by using relevant reference databases such as Academic Search Premier, Sociological Abstracts, PsycINFO, and LitFinder.

 

Target participants: First or second year students taking CAR subjects

This workshop will introduce alert services that enable participants to stay up-to-date with current literature in your research area. Some of the features are: search alerts, citation alerts, table of contents alerts. The following databases will be covered: OneSearch, ScienceDirect, Web of Science Core Collection.

Target participants: Users who want to keep themselves regularly informed of the latest information in their field of interest

This workshop introduces essential features of EndNote X8 for Mac users such as downloading the software, creating an EndNote library, adding and editing references, creating bibliographies, and more. Hands-on practice will be provided.   

You can read the EndNote for Mac users guide before joining the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote (Mac)

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

Library currently subscribes to nearly 84,000 E-journals, and more than 3 million E-books featuring subjects from arts and humanities, to science and technology and medicine. 

In this workshop, we will discuss issues such as locating articles via OneSearch (Library’s search engine), retrieving full-text articles and E-books, and reading E-books on mobile devices. Audio E-books, Kindle E-books and Browzine E-Journal browser will also be introduced.

Target participants: Users who need to gather information from academic journals and E-books for research purposes.

This workshop will equip students with essential information skills to locate reference materials on economic, geographical, political as well as cultural issues. We will start with OneSearch as a general search engine to find quick references on preparing essays, then move on to demonstrate how to develop research ideas and gather critical background information by using relevant reference databases such as:

• Academic Search Premier
• Economist Intelligence Unit
• GeoRef via Ovid
• OECD iLibrary

Hands-on exercises will also be included.

Target participants: First or second year students taking CAR subjects

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, they will be able to appreciate the differences brought by these 2 core citation database and use them for your research.

You may read the guide below before the workshop: Author Impact

Target participants: Postgraduate students and academic staff

This workshop will explore the use of several specialized databases in social sciences including Counseling and Therapy in Video, Sage Knowledge, PsycInfo (1806+), Oxford Bibliographies. Social Work, EBSCOhost, and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The hands-on exercises will enrich participants to compile comprehensive assignments and researches.

Target participants: Social science students (Undergraduates and postgraduates)

Newspapers provide a wealth of current and historical information. This workshop will introduce you to some online newsapaper resources, such as Factiva, WiseNews, South China Morning Post, and other popular online sources.

Target participants: Users who need information pertaining to local issues

This workshop will put great emphasis on Chinese resources and materials. We will guide students to locate reference materials on the Chinese language, history and culture, art and design, etc. Start with OneSearch as a general search engine to find quick help on preparing essays, then move on to demonstrate how to develop research ideas and gather critical background information by using relevant reference databases such as:

• CAJ Full-text Database (中國期刊全文數據庫)
• Chinamaxx Digital Libraries (中文集獻)
• Gu jin tu shu ji cheng (古今圖書集成)
• World Fine Arts (華藝世界美術資料庫)

Hands-on exercises will also be included.

Target participants: First or second year students taking CAR subjects

This workshop introduces essential features of EndNote X8 for Mac users such as downloading the software, creating an EndNote library, adding and editing references, creating bibliographies, and more. Hands-on practice will be provided.   

You can read the EndNote for Mac users guide before joining the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote (Mac)

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

This workshop provides an introduction to research using the resources of the Library. Topics include:

• An introduction to the research process
• Finding resources (e.g. books, media & articles) in or beyond the Library
• Distinguishing popular and scholarly articles
• Evaluating and citing your sources

Target participants: First year undergraduate students

This workshop will cover searching and accessing dissertations in and beyond the Library. Apart from databases such as PolyU Electronic Theses, Digital Dissertation Consortium, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, China Doctor Dissertations Full-text Database (中國博士學位論文全文數據庫), international theses websites will also be introduced.

Target participants: Postgraduates and Staff

This workshop will equip students with essential information skills to locate reference materials on science and technology, as well as discussing issues on environment and health sciences. We will start with OneSearch as a general search engine to find quick references on preparing essays, then move on to demonstrate how to develop research ideas and gather critical background information by using relevant reference databases such as:

• Academic Search Premier
• CINAHL Complete
• IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
• Science Direct

Hands-on exercises will also be included.

Target participants: First or second year students taking CAR subjects

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote X8 – from downloading the software, adding references, organizing and managing references, to creating bibliographies in different citation styles. Participants will be able to work on the software and experience different features through hands-on exercises.

You may read the EndNote guide before the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote 

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

This workshop will allow participants to learn the basic features of Mendeley. Comparison across a number of reference management tools such as Mendeley, Zotero and EndNote will be highlighted. The hands-on exercises will also allow participants to compile reference lists using Mendeley.

 

You may read the Mendeley guide before the workshop

Reference Management Tools: Mendeley

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff who are interested in exploring alternative reference management tools.

Don’t know what plagiarism is and how to write proper citation? Join us to identify causes of plagiarism, learn concepts of citation and format various citation styles. Workshop participants will be given examples of handling citations in order to avoid plagiarism caused by careless referencing.

Instructors will demonstrate some basic features of EndNote, a reference management tool, in organizing references. Plagiarism detection software such as Turnitin and SafeAssign will also be introduced.

Target participants: This workshop is especially useful to first and second year students.

This workshop will demonstrate how to locate key business information such as country economic reports, industry and market outlook, analyst reports, company profiles as well as journal articles. Databases covered in the workshop include Economist Intelligence Unit, Passport, Thomson Reuters Knowledge, Factiva, and Business Source Complete.

Target participants: Business and management students (Undergraduates and postgraduates)

This workshop will demonstrate different ways to locate information and statistics on China from the Library’s collection. Electronic databases including CAJ Full-text Database, CEIC China Database, InfoBank China Database will be included.

Target participants: Users interested in finding China related resources.

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote X8 – from downloading the software, adding references, organizing and managing references, to creating bibliographies in different citation styles. Participants will be able to work on the software and experience different features through hands-on exercises.

You may read the EndNote guide before the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote 

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

This workshop aims to introduce key tools to evaluate journals in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson Reuters and CiteScore in Scopus Journal Metrics. Participants will be introduced to the different metrics available in JCR and Scopus and how they can be used to evaluate and rank journals. 

You may read the guide below before the workshop: Journal Impact

Target participants: Postgraduate students and academic staff

This workshop will introduce you to some online tools that can help assignment writing, such as:

• Library’s Guides
• Phrasebook for Writing Papers and Research in English
• Online References (e.g., Visual Thesaurus, Credo Reference)
• Britannica ImageQuest

Target participants: First-year students

This workshop introduces essential features of EndNote X8 for Mac users such as downloading the software, creating an EndNote library, adding and editing references, creating bibliographies, and more. Hands-on practice will be provided.   

You can read the EndNote for Mac users guide before joining the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote (Mac)

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote X8 – from downloading the software, adding references, organizing and managing references, to creating bibliographies in different citation styles. Participants will be able to work on the software and experience different features through hands-on exercises.

You may read the EndNote guide before the workshop

Reference Management Tools: EndNote 

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff

In this workshop, participants will get to explore additional features available in EndNote X8 such as managing PDF files, working with Groups, finding and editing output styles, synchronizing EndNote web with Desktop Library, and more.

Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff who have already attended the workshop “LS056: Using EndNote (Part 1: Essential features)” or are using EndNote already.