Library Workshops & Seminars in October

CEIC provides access to over 1.2 million macro-economic time series and statistics from over 50 countries. In-depth data is available for China at national, provincial and city level.

The session will cover:

• Introduction to CEIC – data coverage & collection, search interface
• Search effectively on CEIC
• How to turn data into meaningful information including graph and data table

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Maximizing Web of Science for Your Research

Web of Science (WOS), a leading citation database, covers authoritative and multidisciplinary content of over 12,000 highest impact journals worldwide, including open access journals and over 160,000 conference proceedings.

This workshop will show how WOS can assist researcher’s workflow:

• Locate high impact articles & journals
• Analyze results to identify research trends & opportunities
• Trace the development of a topic & discover related works through citation linking

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Open Access: Your Choice to Increase Your Research Visibility and Impact

Open Access (OA) is an emerging model to disseminate scientific research. Four distinguished speakers will provide valuable insights on how the OA trend will affect and benefit the scholar community.

OA Publishing vs Traditional Publishing: differences & benefits
Worldwide OA Development
Licensing issues of OA
Mr. Leo CHEUNG (Regional Open Access Publishing Manager, BioMed Central)

What is Creative Commons License
Mr. Pindar WONG (Co-Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong)

Sharing as an OA journal editor and OA author
Prof. Yung Hou WONG (Chair Professor & Associate Dean of School of Science, HKUST)

HKUST Institutional Repository
Ms. Becky Lee (Scholarly Communication Manager, HKUST Library)

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Copyright in Education: Teaching and Research

The Library will host a seminar on copyright issues(especially in relation to teaching & research), presented by HKSAR Intellectual Property Department staff. It will cover:

• Basic concepts of copyright
• Copyright protection in Hong Kong
• Copyright exceptions relevant to teaching and doing research

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We look forward to seeing you at these events.

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