Library Service Updates (Mar 2017)

Help on your study

Issue no. 43 (Mar 2017)

Looking for information for your assignments or finding a quiet place for revision? From our E-Library, you will be able to access a wealth of electronic resources, such as e-books, e-journals and databases. Don’t forget our two campus libraries where you can find printed library resources, and a seat for studying too.

Upcoming Events

Library Workshop: Finding Dissertations and Theses

If you are looking for theses and don't know where to start, you are welcome to join our library workshop on finding dissertations and theses. You will learn how to locate doctoral and master’s theses from around the world that you may feel interested in via Library-subscribed databases and web resources. Also, you will be able to practice the skills covered during the workshop.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Date:	23 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Time:	7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue:	C0411, Main Campus
Medium of Instruction:	Cantonese
Intended Audience:	Postgraduates and academic staff, and those who might need to write their own dissertations and theses

To reserve your seat, please complete the Online Registration Form here.

New Resources

New Databases

To facilitate your learning and research and to further enrich the collection of the OUHK E-Library, the following new electronic resources are subscribed:

New York Times

The New York Times is an U.S. daily newspaper. It offers top news stories, detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture, and also editorials, editorial cartoons, etc. Users can now access the full text articles from 1851 to present.

New York Times InEducation

The New York Times InEducation covers 16 subject areas, namely American Government, Arts & Visual Culture, Biology, Business, Campaigns & Elections, Criminal Justice, Environmental Sciences, International Relations, Leadership, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Population Health & Nursing, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology and Writing & English Composition. The platform provides case study, discussion questions, article recommendations/discussion, and teaching strategy.

Electronic version of Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition)

Siku Quanshu is a massive collection of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the Qing Dynasty. This Chinese database contains the full-text of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu.

Library User Satisfaction Survey

The OUHK Library User Satisfaction Survey 2016 was conducted from 1 November 2016 to 20 November 2016. By the end of the survey, the Library received 1,889 responses. Among the respondents, over 90% are students, the rest are staff, tutors and others. The overall satisfaction score is 3.9, on a five-point scale (five being the highest). The summary of the survey results was uploaded to the E-Library. You can also click here to view the results.

We would like to thank all who have participated in the survey. As a token of thanks, bookshop vouchers each worth HK$100 were given out to 20 winners randomly drawn from a prize draw.

The Library will act upon the comments received and try our best to meet the needs of our users.

Service Alert

Online Library Orientation

To help new members of the university to know quickly what the library can offer to them, apart from the orientation workshops scheduled at the beginning of each semester, the Library has also prepared the Online Library Orientation for our users to learn about our services, facilities and resources as well as to learn how to use the E-Library to find library materials and more, anywhere and anytime.

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