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ISSUE NO.19   21st January 2008

This issue features:
New Resources: Featured Service:

 

Hot Topic:
Service Alert:

Resources

Featured Service:
How to find Subject Resources

Are you looking for resources for writing your assignment?

"Subject Resources" can give you a clear picture of what Library has for particular subjects. Go to Electronic Library > library guides (on the top bar), you can see different subjects are listed in "Searching Resources":

 

 

 

 

By different subject areas, relevant resources include:

 

  • Printed Books and Journals

  • Electronic Databases

  • Electronic Journals

  

  • Electronic Books

 

 

 

 

British Nursing Index

If you are interested in studying nursing practices and policies in UK, BNI gives you probably the most comprehensive coverage among our collections. It provides abstracts and index information to nursing and midwifery related resources covering over 200 UK journals and other English language titles which published since 1985 to present.  

 

 

 

 

 

To access British Nursing Index, go to Electronic Library > E-Journals & Databases > type in "british nursing index" (with quotation marks).

 

A search guide is available.

 

 

China Journal Net - Health and Hygiene

CJN is a key national project of China for sharing knowledge with the world. It provides full text of 1000+ journals related to medicine, nursing and health sciences published in Mainland China from 2007 onwards.

 

 

 

 

To access China Journal Net, go to Electronic Library > E-Journals & Databases > type in "caj".

 

A search guide is also available.

 

Gartner

One of the world’s leading information technology research and advisory service providing access to the research, news and analysis in IT topics as well as how technologies are applied on the government, education and healthcare industries.

 

 

 

To access Gartner, go to Electronic Library > E-Journals & Databases > type in "gartner".

 

A search guide is also available.

 

 

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library

IEEE Computer Society publishes top-quality articles in the field. This collection provides full-range full text coverage on 14 computing journals and magazines from the Society. They are essential readings for computing students and researchers.

 

 

 

To access IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, go to Electronic Library > E-Journals & Databases > type in "ieee computer society digital library" (with quotation marks).

 

A search guide is also available.

 

Hot Topic: Inflation

Rising prices of primary goods and services becomes daily news. Some economists forecast that Hong Kong will still face high inflation in 2008. How inflation affects the economy and our life? Check it out!

For news coverage of the incidents, check out Wisenews for news mainly in Chinese. Use Factiva.com to find related coverage in major English media.

EIU.com provides news analyses, figures and forecast on economic growth and inflation of many countries including Hong Kong and China.

Articles on inflation, prices, business cycles, economic policy can be easily located in ABI/INFORM Complete, Business Source Premier (BSP), Academic Search Elite, etc.
 

To access these databases, go to Electronic Library > E-Journals & Databases > type in the name of database, then search.

 

 

Service Alerts

 

Exam Papers for the 2007 April Semester

 

Past papers of the August 2007 exam., those provided to Library, are now available in print and online. Go to E-Library Home Page > E-Reserve. Log in with your user ID and password, then key in your course code to search.

 

 

Extended Opening Hours during the Exam Period

From January 28 to February 29, 2008 (except on February 6), the Library will extend opening hour from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A seat reservation scheme will also be in effect on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays (February 7 & 8, 2008). Seat Reservation Tickets will be issued at the Library's entrance at 9:00 a.m. on a first-come-first-served basis. Click here for details.

 

 

Phasing Out of Card-Operated Photocopiers and Stored-Value Card Refund Policy

All card-operated photocopiers had been replaced by Octopus-operated photocopiers. Until December 31 2008, users can get a refund of the HKD$10 deposit and the remaining value upon presentation of their Open Learning Institute / OUHK stored-value cards in good condition to the Library Circulation Counter. Click here for details.

 

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