After months of testing the beta site, the PolyU Institutional Research Archive (IRA) has been launched!

The PolyU IRA aims to increase the visibility of PolyU's research and facilitate knowledge transfer. It is an online platform that indexes and disseminates the research and scholarly outputs created by the PolyU community.

What’s new in PolyU IRA:

• Richer collection: not limited to full-text journal articles with bibliometrics,
  but also covers other types of research outputs such as projects, conference
  papers, awards and presentations.
• Researcher profiles: showcasing publications, research interests and professional
  activities
• Researcher Identifications: displaying ORCiD, ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID
  on a single page

Check out our new PolyU IRA and explore how this powerful platform can help
you to publicize your profile and research outputs -
SHOWCASE YOUR RESEARCH, GAIN GLOBAL EXPOSURE!

Digital Dissertation Consortium – Service temporarily unavailable

(9:00 a.m. on 1 Feb 2016 - 6:00 p.m. on 1 Feb 2016)

The Library warmly invites faculty staff members and researchers to attend this talk:

Date: 18 Jan 2016 (Mon)
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm 
Venue: Teaching and Learning Lab 1, 3rd Floor, Library
Language: English

To register, please go to https://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/register/?event=developing-research-metrics

About

The measure for research excellence is crucial to universities aspiring to compete for prominence among the research intensive universities of the world. To transform their research, universities could measure and monitor the widely accepted measures of research performance such as scholarly output and citation counts. In this talk, Prof. Khor will share on Nanyang Technological University’s journey in transforming research as well as his findings on bibliometrics analysis on the research outputs of institutions in Hong Kong. 

Speaker： Prof. K.A. Khor

K.A. Khor is a professor at School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and currently served as the Director of Research Support Office & Bibliometrics Analysis in NTU. He has published over 265 peer reviewed journal articles which have received ~9200 citations (h-index = 51). In his current role, he conducts various studies on research trends of technological fields.

HKALL loan quota will be increased for eligible users with effect from 4 January 2016. Details are as follows: