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[Library Online Course] Library Resources and Services for Postgraduate Students

News Friday, February 14, 2020 - 16:17

This online course tailor-made for postgraduate students is aimed to equip you with essential skills and knowledge areas for your learning and research. The first two modules of the online course are out now!

Register Now
The course will appear in your Learn@PolyU My Courses within two working days after registration.

Module 1 – Using OneSearch

Learn how to find books and articles via OneSearch within and beyond the PolyU Library

Module 2 – Using Advanced Search

Understand how advance search would help in finding scholarly resources for your assignments and research topics

Modules 3 to 6 are expected to be released in March 2020.

Module 3 – Library Databases
Module 4 – Find Related Articles on Google Scholar & Databases
Module 5 – Citing References
Module 6 – Researcher Profiles

Click HERE to enroll the course now and the course will appear in your Learn@PolyU My Courses within two working days after registering with us.

For further learning support, email us at lbinf@polyu.edu.hk, contact your Faculty Librarian, or call us at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.

Nursing Reference Center Plus (Trial)

News Monday, February 10, 2020 - 13:41

NRC Plus provides the latest evidence-based clinical information for nursing practice, education, management, and research at the point of care. It covers access care plans, video demonstrations, etc.

Expiry date: 31 March 2020

Use Resource List to find your course readings - in one place!

Notice Friday, February 7, 2020 - 19:00

Want to find the books, readings and other materials prescribed by your instructor for each course?

 

Use Resource List on your Blackboard (Learn@PolyU) course page now!


​Resource List provides you with easy access to reading materials prescribed by your instructors for particular module right inside your Blackboard course page, including books, readings and other online resources.

 

This video shows the steps on how to access your course Resource List.

 

Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact your Faculty Librarian  or call us at  2766-6863  (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period. 

Enrich Online Teaching with Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Notice Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 09:00

Have you included any up-to-date and relevant Open Educational Resources (OERs) in your online teaching to enrich students’ learning experience?

 

PolyU OER Portal (http://oer.lib.polyu.edu.hk) features hundreds of quality and up-to-date discipline-specific teaching materials, activities, and learning exercises that are hand-picked by faculty librarians from internationally renowned and creditable sources. Resources on our portal are organized under eight PolyU disciplines (and GEC) for easy discovery. You can also explore OERs by subject discipline, course code, keywords, and resource types so that relevant resources could be located and embedded into Course Resource List (quick guide here) swiftly.

 

PolyU Open Educational Resources Portal is a service from the Pao Yue-kong Library to facilitate the PolyU community to discover, integrate and share quality open-licensed teaching and learning resources that reside in the public domain. You can also explore the Library's collection of OER portals around the world for further inspirations!

 

Embed OERs in your Resource List and let your students seamlessly connect to teaching materials directly from Learn@PolyU.

HSS2011 Human Anatomy is an example of a resource list where the Course Instructor embedded his own OERs into the Resource list.

Steps to add materials into Resource List can be found in this Guide.

 

For further assistance, contact your Faculty Librarian  or call us at  2766-6863  (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.

Use Resource List to improve quality of online teaching

Notice Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 09:00

To facilitate online teaching and learning, instructors can make use of Library’s Resource List to seamlessly connect your students to lists of mandatory and supplementary teaching resources directly from Learn@PolyU.

  • Resource List is a platform that lets Instructors personally manage suggested readings and other resources, such as e-books and e-journals and Open Educational Resources (OERs) so as to better support online teaching and student’s learning. 
  • The Library’s OER portal pulls together open-licensed teaching and learning resources that reside in the public domain so that PolyU Instructors can discover and share them to supplement their teaching.

 

How to add supplementary materials and Open Educational Resources into your Resource List?

 

Instructors can easily add mandatory and additional teaching materials, including relevant Open Educational Resources (OERs) into the Resource List of their courses.   

 

HSS2011 Human Anatomy is an example of a resource list where the Course Instructor embedded his own OER into the Resource list.

 

Steps to add materials into Resource List can be found in this Guide.

 


For further assistance, contact your Faculty Librarian  or call us at  2766-6863  (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.

System maintenance on Ovid starts from 12:00 am to 1:00 am on 29 Jan 2020. Users may experience some downtime of service during this period.

News Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 14:45

Services of all ProQuest platforms are temporarily unavailable from 11:00-23:00 on 9 February 2020

News Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 14:17

Improve your Research Visibility and Impact in 2020

Notice Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - 09:14

Increasing the visibility of researcher profiles and research works has become an essential skill for early career researchers. Take this chance to learn more about the latest developments on author profiles and research impact to boost your research visibility in the scholarly community.

Here are some useful updates to author profiles in Web of Science, ORCID, journal impact factor and open access.

  • Author profile in Web of Science [New]

    Web of Science has recently made available an Author Record page for authors to easily maintain their publications in Web of Science Core Collection thus allowing more accurate citation metrics. As an author, you can claim the ownership of your Author Record and sync the publications to Publons to make them more visible. Learn more through our guide Web of Science Author Record.

  • ORCID profile

    Have you added your latest publications to ORCID? ORCID now also allows adding works by DOI and PubMed ID. Making sure that your publication list in your ORCID is up to date will allow others to read your new works. Revisit the ways of adding works to ORCID or create a new ORCID account if you do not have one yet.

  • Journal Impact

    Publishing in known journals in a subject field makes your publications more visible to the right audience and journal Impact Factor (IF) is one established metric to identify known journals in a research area. The 2018 journal Impact Factor has been released in this June. Check the latest IF for your favourite journals via Journal Citation Reports and learn more about journal metrics on different platforms.

  • Open Access

    In 2018, 19% of publications by PolyU authors were published in Open Access (OA) journals*. Making your publications open access increases the visibility of your works. As an author you may come across questions like how to identify “good” OA journals and how to deal with the licensing issues. Learn more about publishing in OA journals and Creative Commons licenses.
    * Based on Scopus data as of Nov 2019.

Contact your Faculty Librarians for information or research consultation. During Library closure, Faculty Librarians can also set up a consultation via Skype. Do email your Faculty Librarians to make an appointment.

Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at  2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.

Pao Yue-kong Library
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Library Project Wins Two QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020

News Tuesday, December 24, 2019 - 10:48

The project “i-Space: A Makerspace and Community for Students of All Backgrounds at the University Library” launched by the Library of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has won the Regional Silver Award in Asia-Pacific and Cultivating Curiosity Bronze Award of the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020.

The PolyU Library built and opened the new i-Space in 2017. The i-Space is an experimental learning space zoned for inspiration, ideation and implementation. It is an educational innovation, the first of its kind among academic libraries in Hong Kong. To promote the equality of opportunity for students to access digital equipment, the Library offers a new facility Digital Makerspace in i-Space to provide a low barrier of entry for students of all disciplines and family background to try out and explore entry-level digital equipment such as Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR), 3D scanning & printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, poster printing, videos recording and editing.

With a view to cultivating curiosity and Can-do Mindset, MakerMindset@i-Space Programme was launched in 2018 with the sponsorship from Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund. The Programme enriches students’ learning experience through creative and insightful hands-on workshops and seminars, encourages students to explore inspirational use of emerging technologies in creative work.

The PolyU Library’s Digital Makerspace embraces Culture Tech concept by bringing culture, technology and interdisciplinary collaboration together. In facilitating knowledge transfer to the community, the PolyU Library and Department of Electronic and Information Engineering co-organized the “Inter-secondary School Virtual Reality Contest” with the theme "Stories from Ancient China". The Contest challenged secondary students from diverse disciplines to turn stories and fables from ancient China into immersive Virtual Reality games.

QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020

The international Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards are designed to reward the most successful educational innovations, enhancing student learning outcomes and employability. Over 1500 educators from across the world contested this year’s Awards. Over 250 educators from across the world submitted judging candidacies, from which 194 of the most authoritative and experienced were selected.

Opening Hours of Library Temporary Book Pick-up and Return Service Point (24 & 31 Dec 2019)

Notice Friday, December 20, 2019 - 10:34

Dear colleagues and students

The Library Temporary Book Pick-up and Return Service Point at Homantin Halls of Residence will remain open from 9am to 5pm on 24 and 31 Dec 2019. 

For details of the temporary service point, please click here.

In this festive season, the Library would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support.

May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you all through the year!

Pao Yue-kong Library

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