Library Workshops

The Library arranges interactive workshops via online and/or face-to-face sessions throughout the year for students and staff to sharpen their information and research skills. Check out our workshop details below!

Do keep a look out for our e-mails and website announcements on coming workshops! 

 

 

Subject-specific Research Information

LS060

Specialized Workshop for Health Science Subjects

5 Oct 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library
LS042

Mastering Techniques in Searching Business and Financial Databases

2 Nov 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library

Essential Skills for Academic Success

LS039

Citing References and Avoiding Plagiarism

12 Oct 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library

Using Electronic Databases

LST-22

DataCamp: Empower Your Data Potential

28 Sept 2023 (Thurs), 3.30 pm – 4.15 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-07

Bloomberg Workshop I: Getting Started

16 Oct 2023 (Mon), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-15

Statista Training - Finding Statistics in 30 Seconds

19 Oct 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-10

CINAHL Complete and Medline Training - Finding Quality Literature and Tips for Systematic Review

20 Oct 2023 (Fri), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-09

Introduction to SciFinder-n - Finding Quality Chemical Information Resources

24 Oct 2023 (Tue), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-08

Bloomberg Workshop II: Bloomberg Equity Analysis Tools

26 Oct 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:
LST-11

Conducting Legal Research with Lexis Advance Hong Kong

1 Nov 2023 (Wed), 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Face-to-face, venue:

EndNote

(Registration starts 11 Oct 2023)

LS056

EndNote Workshop for Beginners

30 Oct 2023 (Mon), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library
LS056

EndNote Workshop for Beginners

16 Nov 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library

Publishing Support

(Registration starts 9 Oct 2023)

LS081

Exploring Open Science: Maximizing Research Impact at Every Stage of the Research Cycle

27 Oct 2023 (Fri), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library

Research Analytical Tools

(Registration starts 1 Nov 2023)

LS011

Citation Databases - Web of Science and Scopus

20 Nov 2023 (Mon), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library
LS034

Using Journal Analyzing Tools to Evaluate Journals

23 Nov 2023 (Thurs), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library
LS045

Using Essential Science Indicators to Analyse Research Performance

28 Nov 2023 (Tue), 2.30 pm – 4 pm
Face-to-face, venue: Learning Lab 1, 3/F, Library

  

Workshop / Webinar Synopses

 
5 Oct

LS060 - Specialized Workshop for Health Science Subjects

Date: 5 Oct 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: Students and researchers majoring in Health Sciences subjects
Instructor: Emily Wu
 
2 Nov

LS042 - Mastering Techniques in Searching Business and Financial Databases

Date: 2 Nov 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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
Target participants: Business and management students (Undergraduates and postgraduates)
Instructor: William Ho
 
12 Oct

LS039 - Citing References and Avoiding Plagiarism

Date: 12 Oct 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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.

Target participants: Undergraduate students
Instructor: Emily Wu and Queennie Ip
 
16 Oct

LST-07 - Bloomberg Workshop I: Getting Started

Date: 16 Oct 2023 (Mon)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: Undergraduates, postgraduates and staff in business disciplines
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
19 Oct

LST-15 - Statista Training - Finding Statistics in 30 Seconds

Date: 19 Oct 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: All students and staff
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
20 Oct

LST-10 - CINAHL Complete and Medline Training - Finding Quality Literature and Tips for Systematic Review

Date: 20 Oct 2023 (Fri)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: Undergraduates, Postgraduates, and researchers of Health Sciences
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
24 Oct

LST-09 - Introduction to SciFinder-n - Finding Quality Chemical Information Resources

Date: 24 Oct 2023 (Tue)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: All students and staff
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
26 Oct

LST-08 - Bloomberg Workshop II: Bloomberg Equity Analysis Tools

Date: 26 Oct 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: Undergraduates, postgraduates and staff in business disciplines
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
1 Nov

LST-11 - Conducting Legal Research with Lexis Advance Hong Kong

Date: 1 Nov 2023 (Wed)
Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm (1h)

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
Target participants: Undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers who are interested in finding legal information
Instructor: Guest Speaker
 
30 Oct

LS056 - EndNote Workshop for Beginners

Date: 30 Oct 2023 (Mon)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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.

Target participants: All students and staff
Instructor: Estee Kwan and Agnes Cheung
 
16 Nov

LS056 - EndNote Workshop for Beginners

Date: 16 Nov 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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.

Target participants: All students and staff
Instructor: Estee Kwan
 
27 Oct

LS081 - Exploring Open Science: Maximizing Research Impact at Every Stage of the Research Cycle

Date: 27 Oct 2023 (Fri)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)
Join us for an engaging seminar that aims to promote transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration in research.
This seminar will guide you through the research cycle, highlighting essential aspects of Open Science such as open data, open access publishing, and author profiles.
 
During the seminar, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of Open Science principles. You'll learn how to effectively share research data, explore the numerous benefits of open access publishing, and discover the process of depositing your work in the PolyU Institutional Research Archive (PIRA).
 
Topics on copyright for publishing and tips to increase research visibility that could lead to possible collaboration will also be addressed.
Target participants: RPg students, research and academic staff
Instructor: Jenny Lam
 
20 Nov

LS011 - Citation Databases - Web of Science and Scopus

Date: 20 Nov 2023 (Mon)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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.  

Target participants: Postgraduate students and academic staff
Instructor: Katie Cheng
 
23 Nov

LS034 - Using Journal Analyzing Tools to Evaluate Journals

Date: 23 Nov 2023 (Thurs)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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

Target participants: Postgraduate students and academic staff
Instructor: Iris Wai
 
28 Nov

LS045 - Using Essential Science Indicators to Analyse Research Performance

Date: 28 Nov 2023 (Tue)
Time: 2.30 pm – 4 pm (1h30m)

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
Target participants: Postgraduates and academic staff
Instructor: Iris Wai

 

Workshops Handouts and Recordings from Previous Semesters

Wish to review workshops and webinars offered in the past?  Check out the  Handouts and Recordings page. Contents are available for all PolyU students and staff.

Library e-Certificate

Participants can apply for an e-certificate for attended library workshops/webinars if a proof attendance is required. By logging in to the workshop page after the workshop day, you can submit an application via clicking on “e-Certificate” tab on top.

 

Library Online Courses

Library online courses  provide self-paced online learning environment via Learn@PolyU for students and staff to acquire knowledge for their learning and research. View details and register the available titles:

  1. Library Resources and Services for Undergraduate Students
  2. Library Resources and Services for Postgraduate Students
  3. Using EndNote 20

 

Request a Library Workshop / Webinar

The Library can arrange custom workshops/webinars for classes with course-specific research needs. Please contact your  Faculty Librarian  or submit a  Workshop Request From.