Undergraduate Workshops

“Your Library – The Basics” Series

• LibrarySearch Basics: A Search Engine for Your Assignments and Research
• Finding Library’s E-Resources for Your Assignments and Research

Sharpen Your Information Research Skills Series

• Search Strategies for Articles, Books, E-Books and more for Your Studies and Research
• Newspapers: Finding Historical and Up-To-Date News
• Chinese Databases: Searching Materials Published in Chinese

E-Resources Series

• SciFinder
• CNKI 中國知網

Searching Skills Series

• LibrarySearch: A Search Engine for Your Assignments and Research
• Search Strategies for Articles, Books and E-News for Your Studies and Research
• Finding Information about Hong Kong

Academic Honesty Series

• Demonstrating Academic Honesty in University Writing Assignments

Assignment Season Series

• Develop an Effective Search Strategy for Your Assignment
• Finding Academic Sources to Support Your Arguments
• Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism — The Basics
• Acknowledging the Sources – RefWorks Hands-on Experience
• Managing Reference Citations with EndNote
• Literature Review for a Successful Paper

Job Hunting & Further Studies Series

• All You Need to Know about Preparation for Further Studies – From Searching for Information to Writing Personal Statements
• All You Need to Know about Job Hunting – From Searching for Information to Composing CVs & Attending Interviews

“MakerSpace – The Basics” Series

• Introduction to the Creative Media Studio : Video Recording in a Simple Way
• Introduction to Digital Fabrication : 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and UV Printing

Maker Skills Series

• Introduction to 3D Printing by using Tinkercad
• Introduction to iMovie
• Introduction to Adobe Illustrator for Laser Cutting Machine

Postgraduate, Researcher and Faculty Workshops

Postgrudate Survival Skills Workshops

• Sharpening Your Research Skills
• Exploring Research Information in Multi-disciplinary Databases
• Exploring Research Information in Citation Database – Scopus
• Exploring Research Information in Citation Database – Web of Science
• Literature Review for a Good Research Paper (Recording)
• Finding Theses and Dissertations in Your Research Area
• Managing Citations for Your Research
• Managing References Citations with EndNote 20
• Acknowledging the Sources – RefWorks Hands-on Experience
• Thesis Writing Tips
• Structuring a Thesis Introduction: How to Get Readers Hooked at the Beginning
• Writing an Abstract for Your Thesis: How to Summarize Your Research in 500 words
• Intensive and Profound: Chinese Thesis Writing Skills
• Winning Academic Presentation Skills
• Presentation Skills for Postgraduate Students
  Invited speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson
• Poster Design and Presentation for Postgraduate Students
  Invited speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson
• Fluent and Successful: Oral Presentation Skills in Chinese
• Publishing Your Research Workshops
• Constructing Your Research Paper Around an Argument: A Gateway to Publication
  Invited speaker: Paul Nerney
• Salient Features of (Publishable) Academic English
  Invited speaker: Paul Nerney
• Towards Publication: Revising an Introduction of a Research Paper
  Invited speaker: Susan Lopez-Nerney
• Scientific Writing Workshops
• Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers
  Invited speaker: Dr. Sarah E. Webb
• Successful Writing in the Life Sciences: Designing Effective Figures and Tables
  Invited speaker: Dr. Sarah E. Webb
• Oral Defence Workshop
• Designing a Successful Oral Defence
  Invited speaker: Dr. Maria Luisa C. Sadorra

Researcher Workshops

• Open Access
• CUHK Open Access Publishing Plan (Recording)
• Publishing Open Access in Wiley & Hindawi Journals (Recording)
• Read & Publish Author Training by Cambridge University Press (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Caroline Kerbyson, Training Manager, Cambridge University Press
• Publish & Read Onboarding Session by Karger Publishers (Recording)
  Invited speakers: Karger Editorial Staff and Tony O’Rourke, Vice-President of ENAGO
• Open Access Publishing with Cambridge University Press (CUP): Humanities and Social Sciences Journals (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Joe Ng, Acquisitions editor, CUP
• Open Access Publishing with PLOS Journals
  Invited speaker: Sara Rouhi, Director, Strategic Partnerships, PLOS
• Research Metrics
• scite: Insight beyond citation counts (Recording)
• How to Measure Impact of Research Papers (Recording)
• Citation Analysis Tools for Ranking Journals (Recording)
• Author Identity Management
• Using ORCID to connect your research activities (Recording)
• Author Identifier: Making yourself distinguishable (Recording)
• Workshops on AIMS and Research Portal
• Research Output Management with AIMS
• NVivo and Atlas.ti Workshop
• NVivo: A Powerful Tool to Address Your Research Questions
• NVivo: Strategies to Advance Qualitative Data Analysis
• Using ATLAS.ti for Qualitative Data Analysis
• protocols.io Workshop
• Basics of protocols.io (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Dr. Gabriel Gasque, Head of Outreach, protocol.io
• Advanced protocols.io (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Dr. Gabriel Gasque, Head of Outreach, protocol.io

Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops

• Mastering Data Management Plan in One Hour (Recording)
• Introduction to GIS & ArcGIS
  Invited speaker: Representative from Esri China (Hong Kong) Ltd.
• Introducing Digital Humanities for Study and Research (Recording)
• A Quick Glance of Online Text Analysing Tools
• Visualising Network Relationships with Gephi
• Research Data in the Big Data Era
• Introduction to R Programming and Data Analysis (Hands-on) (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Prof. Liang Hai, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
• Understanding Research Data Management
• Writing Data Management Plans with DMPTool (Recording)
• Introduction to ArcGIS and QGIS for Digital Scholarship Projects
• Basics of Data Mining with Weka (Hands-on)
• Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Prof. Michael Chan, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
• Introduction to Python for Data Analysis (Recording)
  Invited speaker: Dr. LO Man Fung Kelvin, Lecturer, BSSc Programme in Data Science and Policy Studies, CUHK
• Python for Beginners (3 sessions)
  Invited speaker: Dr. WONG Kwong Cheong, Senior Lecturer, BSSc Programme in Data Science and Policy Studies, CUHK

Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) Courses offered by Library (Organized by Graduate School and CLEAR)

• Discover Research Information at Your Discipline
• Group 1: Arts
• Group 2: Business Administration
• Group 3: Education
• Group 4: Engineering
• Group 5: Medicine
• Group 6: Science
• Group 7: Social Science
• Group 8: Law
• Group 9: Chinese Law
• Managing and Creating Reference Citations with Reference Managing Tools
• Managing and Creating Reference Citations with EndNote
• Managing and Creating Reference Citations with RefWorks
• Research Data Management for Your Discipline
• Research Data Management for Arts and Education
• Research Data Management for Medicine
• Research Data Management for Engineering
• Research Data Management for Science
• Research Data Management for Business, Law, Social Science, and Inter-faculty
• Research Data Management for Multi-disciplines
• Observing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research