Library Service Updates (Feb 2018)

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Wish you an inspiring and rewarding Year of the Dog!

Issue no. 50   (Feb 2018)

Perhaps it’s a good opportunity now to set your goal for your study.  How about improving your language skills, or finding appropriate resources so as to write a better paper?  No matter what your goal will be, do explore our E-Library and campus libraries, where we have prepared plenty of resources to help you reach your goal for your study!

Upcoming events – Database training workshops

Library databases enable you to find relevant information for your assignments quickly. If you want to know how to find financial data or market research data, or how our abstract and citation database can help with your research, you are welcome to join our database training workshops which will be organized in the coming weeks. Trainers of the database vendors will come to demonstrate how to retrieve information you need from their databases. Details of the workshops will be sent to you via emails and will be posted on Library Homepage. Stay tuned and join us!

1. Library seminar on financial database: Thomson Retuers Eikon (Workshop details)
 
Thomson Reuters Eikon gives users access to a universe of market and financial data and content across different asset classes, industries, regions, and companies.  (Learn more)
 
2. Training workshop on abstract and citation database: Scopus
 
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering journals, book and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science, and arts and humanities
3. Training workshop on market research database: Passport
 
Passport is a global market research database providing industry and sector market sizes statistics of over 80 countries.  Full-text materials include consumer market reports, company profiles, sector briefing, industrial market reports and lifestyle reports.

Please go to our A-Z database list  and you will find more resources.  Simply filter the list by “Types” or “Subjects” and you can easily find the most relevant databases for your subjects!

Improving your English (and Chinese too)!
We have many books and other resources about English and Chinese grammar, usage and style.  Try to find them with the following keywords in the E-Library:
You can also practise your English in a more lively way with our newly subscribed database Net Languages. There are 9 different work-related modules under English for Work courses and 4 IELTS-related modules which provide listening, reading, writing and speaking exercises.
 
Recommending books to the Library

If you have a good book to share with us, you are welcome to use our Online Book Recommendation service to tell us.  Your suggestion will help us to enrich our collection.

Citing your sources – why and how?

What is a citation and why do you need to cite your sources?  We have prepared a citation guide to help you better understand what a citation is and introduce tools that can help you to manage your citations.

Contact us
The two campus libraries are open every day and our staff members are happy to provide help.  Click here to learn the details of our opening hours and click here to check the service hours or our Information desk.
 
You are also welcome to contact us at 2768 6777 or email us at libwww@ouhk.edu.hk if you need help in finding resources for your study.