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Author Workshop – An insider's guide to getting published in international research journalsAll academics and research staff are invited to join an Emerald Author Workshop hosted by the Institute Library. In this Workshop conducted by Ms Claire Jackson, Chief Editor – China, Emerald Publishing Group, you will learn:
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EdSearchThis course provides an introduction to EdSEARCH, an easy and personalized interface for you to search simultaneously across a range of electronic resources, including databases and journals subscribed by the Library, as well as selected free online resources. Also includes the steps to save the search results for future reference in your own “eShelf”, on to disk or USB, or to link to other related sites via EdLINK. |
Endnote for research purposeEndNote is a software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies. With this, you can create your own database of citations, bibliographies and figure lists for papers and other publications. EndNote 9 offers features such as searching online databases, importing citation records from library catalogues / e-databases, and integrating searches with Microsoft Word. This workshop will start from the very basics of using EndNote 9. Contents will cover the procedures of starting EndNote 9, introducing its interface, creating an EndNote library, and sorting/ retrieving references in an EndNote library. And then we will focus on discussing EndNote connection files, importing/ exporting references to/ from EndNote, working with Microsoft Word (Cite While You Write), and printing bibliographies. |
Finding Newspaper ArticlesThe aims of this workshop are to introduce different formats of newspaper articles available in Library, and to demonstrate how to locate and retrieve local and overseas newspaper articles from e-databases such as WiseNews and other online newspapers from the internet After attending this workshop, students will be able to grasp the techniques of searching and retrieving newspaper articles electronically. Participants will also have the opportunity to try out the resources introduced and practise the skills discussed in the session. |
Library Skills for Postgraduate StudiesContent of this workshop will include (1) formulating search strategies, (2) finding information using EdCAT- Library Catalogue, research databases and other electronic resources. * This workshop is suitable for postgraduate students. |
Locating & Using Library Resources What resources does library provide? If your answer is "I don't know", then you must come to this workshop. This workshop will introduce different kinds of library resources and guidance for you to find the appropriate materials. It is a good start to familiarize yourselves with HKIEd library as you will spend a lot of time here in your studies. |
Preparing bibliographies / reference listsThis workshop will be focusing on the citation style APA, which is the required citation style for HKIEd students and staff in preparing their papers. Examples of citing books, journals, book chapters will be illustrated; various techniques and methods of preparing bibliographies/ reference lists will also be discussed and practised during the workshop. Some examples on citing Chinese materials will also be covered. |
RefWorks for research purposeRefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool newly-subscribed by the Library. It helps you to organize bibliographies for teaching and research. During the workshop, we will introduce the basic skills of using RefWorks, such as creating your own account, entering and importing references from Library Catalogues and e-databases (Chinese and English). The workshop will also teach how to manage your personal database of bibliographies and to compile bibliographies in a variety of citation styles such as APA, MLA and Chicago. |
Research evaluation tools - Journal Citation ReportsJournal Citation Reports (JCR - Social Sciences Edition) is a research tool which will enable you to evaluate the quality and impact of over 1,700 of the world's leading journals in the social sciences. During the workshop, we will introduce some useful methods of retrieving JCR's wealth of information, which enables you to assess the largest, most frequently cited, most topical and highest impact journals in your field. We will also demonstrate how this type of information can be used as an indicator of the highest impact, most important or relevant journals in which to publish, in addition to offering some indication of the status of the journals in which you have published previously. |
ScopusScopus, an abstracting and indexing database covering some 15,000 peer-reviewed journal titles in the social sciences, health sciences, life sciences and physical sciences. Similar to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Scopus offers the tools to track citation for research evaluation. Indictors such as author evaluation, total citation counts, number of documents published and the h-index are good research evaluation tools. |
Searching Dissertations & ThesesResearch students requiring to find dissertations and theses should attend this workshop to see how and where dissertations and theses can be found. Two databases will be introduced in the workshop: 1) Hong Kong University Theses Online, 2) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. We will also explore other library subscribed databases, library catalogue and other resources from Hong Kong web sites. Hands-on practices and examples will be included. |
Using Chinese Databases 使用中文電子數據庫是否需要尋找中文資料? 此工作坊一定幫到你! 一小時的課程著重介紹不同類型的中文電子資源，例如教育、文學或社會科學等。講者在課堂上透過講解、示範及練習，指導學員運用相關的中文電子數據庫尋找中文文獻資料。 |
Using Education databasesThis workshop is suitable for beginners who are not familiar with using education e-databases. It provides an introduction on using ERIC & Academic Search Premier for your studies and research, followed by a demonstration on how to use EdLINK to retrieve full-text articles from e-resources subscribed by the Library, and to locate other possible sources which may contain the required information from other Education databases such as A+Education from Australia, British Education Index from UK, ProQuest Education Journal, Academic Research Library, etc. Again, demonstration and hands-on practices are provided during the class. |
Using E-journals & E-booksUsing E-journals Library subscribes to more than 10,000 e-journals, which are essential for your studies and research. In this workshop, we will guide you through steps of locating useful e-journals via EdCAT and e-journal collections, so that you will be able to retrieve relevant academic articles for your assignments/ projects. Using E-books SpringerLink e-Books / Gale Virtual Reference Library / This workshop will introduce various e-book collections available in Library. SpringerLink e-Books provides electronic versions of scholarly monographs in the area of social sciences, education, psychology, language, environment, etc. Another e-book collection: Gale Virtual Reference Library, an e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources supporting multidisciplinary research. Apabi Chinese e-book 《阿帕比中文電子書》是圖書館首個大型中文電子書數據庫，提供一千多本於國內出版並由圖書館選定的中文書。學科範圍涵蓋教育、人文科學、文化及社會科學。 Books 24x7 - IT Pro Collection is an online collection of ebooks, covering the areas of IT. It provides full contents of over 5,000 e-books from IT publishers, including Microsoft Press, McGraw-Hill, Sybex. |
E-Resources Discovery Carnival Training Workshops
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