Library Workshops

Westlaw Asia is an online legal research service which provides a unique collection of legal and regulatory information, e.g., case law, legislation, journals, current awareness, news and books/commentary etc.

Topics include:

• Content types and Jurisdictions covered
• How to get around in the platform
• Cases search, legislation search
• Commentary and journals search
• Current Awareness and news search

The Cochrane Library is an electronic collection designed to supply high quality, independent evidence in health care.

In this workshop, you will be guided through the Cochrane Library platform to get familiar with its interface and essential features. Some latest enhancements and updates, including the new PICO search, will be introduced.

Topics will be covered:

·         Content available in Cochrane Library and its compositions

·         How to get around in the platform

·         What’s new in Cochrane

·         Using PICO Search to support EBM research

·         How to set up alerts and find help

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

This workshop will help participants 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

STATdx provides a rich collection of medical imaging and diagnoses for reference, and is also a good resource to improve users’ anatomy knowledge. 

Topics include:

• An overview of STATdx
• Navigate STATdx and conduct effective searches
• Demonstrate the strength of features and tools on the platform
• Q & A discussion with participants

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote 20.

In this highly interactive workshop, the instructor will serve as a facilitator to walk you through several EndNote tasks and showing you how the step-by-step instructions of Library EndNote Guide can help. You will also learn some best practices in addition to those covered in our EndNote Online Course.  

You are strongly recommended to complete Modules 1 to 5 of the EndNote Online Course before joining this workshop.

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote 20.

In this highly interactive workshop, the instructor will serve as a facilitator to walk you through several EndNote tasks and showing you how the step-by-step instructions of Library EndNote Guide can help. You will also learn some best practices in addition to those covered in our EndNote Online Course.  

You are strongly recommended to complete Modules 1 to 5 of the EndNote Online Course before joining this workshop.

This workshop will cover basic features of EndNote 20.

In this highly interactive workshop, the instructor will serve as a facilitator to walk you through several EndNote tasks and showing you how the step-by-step instructions of Library EndNote Guide can help. You will also learn some best practices in addition to those covered in our EndNote Online Course.  

You are strongly recommended to complete Modules 1 to 5 of the EndNote Online Course before joining this workshop.

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, we will use both databases to locate seminal works by topic and author. H-index, which can be adopted to measure the research performance of an author, will also be introduced. Through the activities, participants will be able to appreciate the differences brought by these two core citation databases and use them for 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. Participants 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

This workshop will cover the basics of SciVal, a web-based strategic research analysis tool using Scopus data. By using different modules in SciVal, participants will learn to use the tools to analyse emerging areas of research and to identify and analyse existing and potential research collaboration opportunities.