E-Resources Discovery Carnival

The E-Resources Discovery Carnival

To promote the understanding and usage of electronic information resources amongst our staff and students, the Institute Library staged the 2nd “E-Resources Discovery Carnival” on last Friday, 7th November 2008. It was held from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm at the 7 x 24 Learning Centre located on the Ground Floor of the Mong Man Wai Library. Electronic resource vendors exhibited their products and assisted library users to learn more about their e-resources subscribed by the Library.

Over 500 students and staff completed their quizzes and submitted their lucky draw entry forms. By completing their quiz forms, they got an opportunity to familiarize themselves with various kinds of e-resources, including e-databases, e-journals and e-books.

The carnival reached a climax at 3:30pm as hundreds of participants gathered at the 7 x 24 Learning Centre, MMW Library to wait for the final lucky draw. Those who were lucky to win a prize were very happy; for those who did not win a prize also enjoyed the atmosphere, and most importantly, they got to understand more about valuable e-resources which will benefit their studies!

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Announcement of the Luck Draw Winners

Event	Time	Prizes and Winners	Sponsor	Number of Participants
1st draw	12:30 pm	Photo Printer x 1 AU-YEUNG WING Book Coupon x 3 CHAN MEI HAN FANG YANLING LEUNG WING YIN	EBSCOhost	69
2nd draw	1:30 pm	iPod Nano x 2 CHAN MAN YUK WU JIANMING Book Coupon x 2 AU CHUN LEUNG TSE PIK YAN	ProQuest Emerald	83
3rd draw	2:30 pm	iPod Touch x 1 WONG HIN LUN iPod Nano x 3 CHAN XIAO LAN SONIA CHAU JUN HANG MAK TSZ SHAN Netbook x 1 YEUNG LO YU	CNKI Emerald, RMIT, Info Access Thomson Reuters	147
4th draw	3:30 pm	Netbook x 2 WONG GILBERT HO CHEUN TSANG KAM YIN iPod Touch x 2 FUNG KA YEE ZHU AILIN iPod Nano x 1 NG KA SHUN	Airiti,CNKI Springer, Info Access Thomson Reuters	210

E-Resources Vendors

Thank you to the following E-Resources vendors and sponsors who helped make this event successful and fun!

Vendor	E-Resources
	故宮線上 Digital Archive of China Treasures 圖片與文字內容由台灣台北國立故宮博物院授權使用，資料庫內容分為繪畫、書法、陶瓷、玉器、銅器、佛教文物、珍玩（文房、牙、木、骨、漆、緙繡等）七大類。
	Gale Virtual Reference Library An e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources supports multidisciplinary research. It provides full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations.
	中國知網包含《中國期刊全文數據庫》、《中國優秀博碩士學位論文全文數據庫》、及《世紀期刊人文社科精品數據庫》
	Academic Search Premier It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-displinary full text database containing full text and peer-reviewed publications which covers all aspect of academic study. Education Research Complete A bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include teacher education, curriculum planning, school administration, teaching and learning, civic education and many more.
	Scopus An abstracting and indexing database that includes 15,000 peer-reviewed journal titles in the social sciences, health sciences, life sciences and physical sciences. Apart from getting extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles, the database also contains cited references to articles from 1996 onwards. Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Provides electronic access to over 350 Elsevier ebooks subscribed by the Library. It covers all science aspects, such as Computer Science, Earth Science, Environmental Science and Psychology, etc.
	Emerald A collection of over 120 full text management journals covers subject areas on marketing, HRM, library and information management, quality to operations management and more.
	Ebrary Ebrary is a collection of more than 4,000 academic books from a wide variety of top scholarly and professional publishers. It covers academic disciplines including education, fine arts, language & literature, music, social sciences and technology, etc.
	ProQuest Education Journals Covers almost 400 leading journals in education and related fields. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Includes citations and abstacts of doctorial dissertations master's these. Preview of the first 24 pages is provided for titles published in and after 1997.
	A+ Education Provides bibliographic and full text information from more than hundred Australian and New Zealand publications indexed in Australian Education Index), itcontains journal contents since 1978, offering full text articles from 2000 onwards. It covers all aspects of education such as curriculum, educational research, teaching and training.
	SpringerLink e-Books The Springer eBook Collection contains more than 5,000 full-text titles in subjects areas of science, technology and medicine. Full-text is accessible with PDF and HTML formats. It offers high resolution illustrations, bookmarks as well as basic and advanced search functions, making research as fast and easy as possible.
	Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - Social Sciences Edition A resource tool for the evaluation of social sciences journals, containing data from over 1,700 journals in social sciences. Users can filter the journals by subject and then sort them by impact factor, immediacy index, total cites, current articles, cited half-life, or journal title. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 of the world's leading science and social sciences journals.