Library Workshops

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