News & Events
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.
Services of all ProQuest platforms are temporarily unavailable from 11:00-23:00 on 9 February 2020
Improve your Research Visibility and Impact in 2020
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.
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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
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)
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
Resource List: Understanding Students’ Engagement
As the semester draws to a close, we can make use of analytics and data from the Resource List platform to better understand how our students are making use of the reading lists for your courses.
Resource List, a tool launched in July 2019, aims to connect your students with your course readings right inside Learn@PolyU. This platform allows Instructors and Librarians to collaborate and manage suggested readings and other resources to support students’ learning.
Log on to Learn@PolyU, access the Resource List platform and see usage analytics under “Reports” in the left sidebar. Here are some useful usage analytics you can use to better understand how your reading lists are used:
- Total number of Active Students
- Total number of Full Text Access
- Total number of Likes
These analytics can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis.
Do check out our guide for Resource List to learn more!
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.
Reminder for Returning or Renewing Term Loans
This message is a gentle reminder to all academic, administrative equivalent staff and postgraduate students that all library books on loan to them are due on 20 January 2020. Please return the books to Library when it reopens. The reopening date will be announced in due course. In case you will not return to campus in the first two weeks of Semester 2 which will commence on 13 January 2020, you are recommended to renew your loans first and return the books not in need any more to Library later.
Books borrowed or renewed from now on will be due for return on 25 May 2020.
A loan may be recalled once the item has been on loan to you for four weeks if required by another user. Notice of “Shortened due date / No further renewal of your Library items(s)” will be emailed to you. Please remember to check your PolyU or CPCE official email account regularly, including the Clutter and Junk Email folders.
Please return all loans before leaving Hong Kong on long leave so that other users can have access to the books. To view your borrowing record or to renew your loans online, please visit https://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/my-record.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6864 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
Best wishes for your success in the coming academic year.
Pao Yue-kong Library
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Online Resources for English Language Learning
The Library has a variety of online resources for self-directed English language learning. We have put together a guide of featured resources with
- Audiobooks and e-books for improving general English
- E-books and reference materials for academic writing
- Online courses with practice activities to improve grammar, pronunciation, reading and writing, etc.
- Workplace English training materials, including job interview skills
- E-books and practice materials for English Proficiency Tests
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.
Student Survival Guide: Find e-Resources
To help you quickly find e-resources and tools for preparing assignments and exams during the period of online learning and assessment, the Library has compiled a one-page survival guide highlighting:
- Find e-Books and Articles
- Find Exam Papers
- Find Other e-Resources – Subject related databases and guides
- Find Tools for Assignment
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.
Library's Online AV Resources - Learn through Watching & Listening
Listening to audiobooks and watching videos for formal and informal learning have become more and more popular with the proliferation of digital and mobile technologies. Online AV resources also provide useful materials for research and teaching, in addition to other materials.
The Library has subscribed to a wide range of online audio and video resources in different disciplines and you may access to them even you are off-campus simply with your NetID and NetPassword:
- Applied Science & Textiles
- Business
- Construction & Environment
- Design
- Engineering
- Health Sciences
- Hotel and Tourism Management
- Humanities
- Social Sciences
Featured Online Audiobook Collections:
- HyRead
This collection provides around 200 audiobooks in a variety of subjects, including language learning books for English, Japanese and Korean. This guide provides steps on how to check out audiobooks on this platform.
- iRead eBook
This collection provides over 200 audiobooks for learning languages like English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.
Featured Online Video Resources:
- Kanopy
A video streaming platform offers over 30,000 videos including movies, documentaries and courses covering different subjects.
- Academic Video Online (via Alexander Street)
A database of 8,000+ scholarly videos covering Art and Architecture, Business Education, Counseling and Therapy, Nursing Education, Rehabilitation Therapy, Sports Medicine and Exercise Science, etc.
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.
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