Sage Skills includes the following resources:

Business Skills empowers learners to develop and practise the real-world capabilities essential for a successful transition from academia to the modern workplace. This is achieved through interactive self-assessments, immersive virtual scenarios, downloadable datasets, and expert insight. This dynamic digital resource, curated in collaboration with academic and professional experts, currently covers the following 10 modules:

• Data Analytics
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance Basics Skills
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Organizational Communication
• Professionalism
• Workplace Conflict and Negotiations

Student Success helps students learn the practical academic and personal skills needed to thrive during their time in higher education and beyond. Enhanced with interactive self-assessments, virtual scenarios, and videos, this digital resource offers two collections with 15 modules.

1. Student Success: Essentials features 10 core modules, including:

• Academic integrity and referencing
• Academic Writing
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Data Literacy
• Diversity, Bias, and Impacting Change
• Information Literacy
• Personal Development and Well-Being
• Research Skills
• Study Strategies and Assignments

2. Student Success: Succeeding in Your Final Year features 5 modules, including:

• Digital Literacy
• Financial Literacy and Budgeting
• Finding Your School-Life Balance
• Securing Your Future
• Your Final Research Project

Expiry date: 31 January 2026

Research Data Management is essential in your research process. The Library has implemented new services for our PolyU researchers.

1. Refine your Metadata with TurboCurator!
   

   After inputting your dataset’s basic metadata in the PolyU Research Data Repository, TurboCurator uses AI to suggest enhanced titles, descriptions, and keywords. 

   A comprehensive metadata makes your dataset more discoverable and FAIR—Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

   Learn more about TurboCurator in our Library Guide!

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2. Try Out our Data Management Plan Service!
   

   A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a comprehensive document that outlines how you will manage your research data throughout a project. It helps you stay organized and is often required by funding agencies.

   Further strengthening the University’s open access policy, the Library now offers a DMP Service on the DMP Tool online platform, available to all PolyU staff and students.

   Check out the Library Guide for more details!

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Two pieces of subsidiary legislation under the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) (the Ordinance), namely the Copyright (Libraries, Museums and Archives—Prescribed Conditions for Making Copy) Regulation and the Copyright (Specified Libraries, Museums and Archives under Sections 47 to 53) Notice, will come into operation on 1 January 2026.

There will not be any change in making a request for materials via the Library's Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services. Users will only be contacted and required to fill in and sign a Declaration Form when the Library has successfully located the resource (article / book chapter) and the reproduction of that resource falls within the requirements of the Copyright Ordinance.

More details on the new copyright legislation are provided by the Intellectual Property Department at https://www.ipd.gov.hk/en/copyright/legislative-proposals-and-amendments/copyright-of-libraries-museums-and-archives/index.html.

Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy is an online platform designed to foster research and data literacy. It provides books, videos, and practical tools to support researchers through each phase of a project, from initial design and ethical review to data analysis and the dissemination of findings. The resource covers core concepts and detailed methodologies spanning qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research across the social, behavioural, and health sciences.

Key features include in-depth video interviews with practicing researchers, step-by-step instructional guides, real-world case studies, and practice datasets. By providing these resources and real-life examples, Sage Research Methods helps students and researchers build the skills necessary to conduct their research papers.

Expiry date: 31 January 2026