The Library is pleased to arrange a series of research skills workshops for researchers and postgraduate students. CUHK researchers and postgraduate students are all welcome to join the workshops. Interested undergraduate students are also welcome to attend.
Program 1: Sharpen Your Research Skills
Literature Review for a Successful Research Paper
This workshop will cover the following to help you conduct a good literature review:
- The purpose and process of literature review
- The strategies and sources for identifying literature reviews in various disciplines
- Search skills for literature databases
22 Sep (Thu) 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
30 Sep (Fri) 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Getting Your Research Information to Come to You – Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus & ScienceDirect
This workshop will demonstrate:
- How to use Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and ScienceDirect to create search alerts so that the most updated search results will be sent to you automatically by email
- Setting up of citation alerts of journal articles
28 Sep (Wed) 3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
30 Sep (Fri) 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Finding Theses and Dissertations in Your Research Area
This workshop demonstrates how to locate theses and dissertations from universities in Hong Kong, China and other countries.
19 Oct (Wed) 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
3 Nov (Thu) 6:30 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.Venue: User Education Room 1, G/F, University Library
Program 2: Measuring and Showcasing Your Research Impact
Make Yourself Discoverable on the Web: Setting Up a Researcher Profile
Do you want your research papers to get more citations? Do you want your research activities being known and get more funding support? This workshop is to help you set up researcher profiles in ORCID, Google Scholar, and ResearcherID to enhance your discoverability on the Web.
5 Oct (Wed) 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Multi-purpose Room 1, 1/F, University Library
Managing Your Author Identity – ORCID iD
Establishing an author identity with the use of ID is increasingly important to distinguish yourself accurately in the research community from those of others with similar names so that your scholarly publications can be easily recognized. ORCID is established as a non-profit organization to help you with this. This workshop will show you:
- What is ORCID iD and why use it
- How to set-up an ORCID profile as a free and persistent digital identifier that uniquely distinguishes yourself
- How to connect your research activities such as your latest publication, and linking automatically your other IDs such as ResearcherID with ORCID iD
12 Oct (Wed) 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
4 Nov (Fri) 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.Venue: Multi-purpose Room 1, 1/F, University Library
Increasing Visibility of Your Research – Use of Citation Analysis Tools
This workshop will introduce how to:
- Find ranking of journals from Journal Citation Reports on InCites and SCImago for selecting journals for publications
- Find citation counts in Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Google Scholar
- Find an author’s h-index
2 Nov (Wed) 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
18 Nov (Fri) 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.Venue: Multi-purpose Room 1, 1/F, University Library
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English might be used if users require.)
Registration: Complete the Online Registration Form
