News & Announcements

Effective from 20 January 2014, the University Libraries has resumed the advisory service for students in the Chi Wah Learning Commons (智華館). The University Libraries will offer assistance to students in:

• using the library services and facilities;
• formulating search strategies;
• searching the information resources, such as Dragon (the library catalogue) and the article databases; and
• setting up personal consultations for in-depth information search.

The advisory service is available Monday to Friday from 1 pm to 5 pm in Zone R, i.e. the designated Student Advisory Services Zone shown in green in the following floor plan.

The Libraries aims to provide high quality advisory service to facilitate student learning experience at the Learning Commons which is developing into a campus hub for student-centered learning activities.

You are most welcome to share with us what you think about the Libraries’ advisory service at the Chi Wah Learning Commons by sending us an email to libis@hku.hk.

Information Services Division

University of Hong Kong Libraries

ORCiD to Make Your Research Unique & Findable and
SAGE Open: Open Access Publishing for You to Choose

by Mr David Palmer
Associate University Librarian (Digital Strategies & Technical Services), University Libraries

Date: January 22, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Venue: Room P6-03, Graduate House

Sandwiches will be provided. All are welcome.

Abstract:
ORCiD and SAGE Open are two new initiatives of the Libraries to support HKU researchers with a view to enhancing the visibility of their research to not only scholars but also potential collaborators in outside organizations, potential research postgraduate students, and interested members of the public.

ORCiD: This is an international initiative to create and use unique scholar identifiers for each scholar in the world. Universities, publishers, funding agencies, scholars, and anybody who search for them, can use ORCiDs to uniquely identify and retrieve data on scholars. This will be especially beneficial to authors with Chinese names that may be quite common. The Libraries will begin creating ORCiDs for HKU professoriate staff in December 2013.

SAGE Open: Agreement has been made with SAGE Open to publish 100 articles by HKU authors in SAGE Open. This peer reviewed journal is gold open access, which means the author, the institution or the funder pays an Article Processing Charge (APC), rather than readers paying subscriptions. HKU authors can now choose to publish in SAGE Open, as the APC for up to 100 articles will be covered under the aforementioned agreement. The resulting published peer reviewed article is available to everyone in open access. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. This is another initiative to promote open access (OA), following the Springer OA initiative done in the last triennium, which mainly covered the science and technology-related disciplines. OA journals can increase readership, enable readership amongst those who cannot afford subscriptions, and enable a faster cycle of, “research – publish – research”.

For further details, please visit the KE website:
http://www.ke.hku.hk/events/seminars/upcoming-seminar

Yu Chun Keung Medical Library

Monday – Friday: 8:15am – 6am of the following day

Saturday: 8:30am – 6am of the following day

Sundays & Public Holidays: 10am – 6am of the following day

All service counters will be closed outside the normal operating hours.  In order to thoroughly clean the library, all users and their possessions must be cleared by 6 am each morning.  Items not removed from each desk will be removed by staff on duty and can be collected after 10 am at the Circulation Counter.

During the extended opening hours, contract security guards will be stationed in these two libraries to provide basic security services.  When the circulation counters are closed, users can check out books using the self-check stations. While there is no counter service, all public computers, printers and copiers will be available but no refill of printing paper will be provided.

For enquiry, please call 2819-9771.

Main Library:

Daily:  8:30am – 6am of the following day

(except Special Collections, AV & Reserve Collection, and Level 3 Collaboration Zone)

All service counters will be closed outside the normal operating hours.  In order to thoroughly clean the library, all users and their possessions must be cleared by 6 am each morning.  Items not removed from each desk will be removed by staff on duty and can be collected after 9 am (10 am on Sundays & Public Holidays) at the Lending Services Division on the G/F.

During the extended opening hours, contract security guards will be stationed in these two libraries to provide basic security services.  When the circulation counters are closed, users can check out books using the self-check stations (G/F and 4/F in Main Library). While there is no counter service, all public computers, printers and copiers will be available but no refill of printing paper will be provided.

For enquiry, please call 2859-2203 or 2241-5945.

Temporary Suspension of Fresh, Laboratory & Fire Service Water Supply for Modification Works of New Water Supply Pipe at Check Meter Location beside Lyttelton Road as Requested by Water Supplies Department (WSD).

Check Meter Location beside Lyttelton Road.

1. Fresh & Laboratory water supply – 17 November 2013 (Sun) 10:00 – 13:00.
2. Fire Service Water Supply – 17 November 2013 (Sun) 14:00 – 18:00.

For more details, please find the notice and the additional information below:
Notice

Subject: Temporary Suspension of Fresh and Laboratory Water
Saturday 26th October from 13:00-18:00

The Water Supplies Department (WSD) will be adding a connection to a new water supply pipe at Lyttelton Road on Saturday 26th October from 13:00-18:00. This work will cause temporary suspension of fresh and laboratory water at the Main Library.

For more details, please find the notice and additional information in the link below:
Notice

The air quality of the area containing books with call numbers: 500-599 on 1/F Old Wing, Main Library has improved to an acceptable level and is now open.

Book retrieval service for books with call numbers: 500-599 books will no longer be available.

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

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Message from University Libraries

With the overwhelming response, Author’s Talk is now moved to a bigger venue – Multi-purpose Zone at Level 3 (Main Library).

If you are interested, please register at

http://lib.hku.hk/cgi-bin/course/list_gp_m.cgi?category=8

For your information, details of the seminar are as follows:

Date:       18 September 2013 (Wednesday)

Time:       8:30 am – 11:30 am

Venue:     Multi-purpose Zone at Level 3 (Main Library)

This seminar focuses on publishing in academic journals, tips from Taylor & Francis to help you succeed.  Speaker is Lyndsey Dixon (Journals Publisher – Asia Pacific, Taylor & Francis) with Dr Kaimin Shih (Associate Editor of HKIE Transactions) as Editor on Panel.

For enquiries, please contact Information Services Division at libis@hku.hk.

Information Services Division

HKU Libraries

19 September 2013 (Mid-Autumn Festival)

Main Library (except Special Collections) & Fung Ping Shan Library: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm;

Medical Library: 8:15 am – 5:00 pm

The following libraries and Special Collections: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm:

· Dental Library

· Education Library

· Law Library

· Music Library

All libraries will be closed at 5:00 pm.

20 September 2013 (The day following Mid-Autumn Festival) &
1 October 2013 (National Day):

All HKU Libraries will be closed.

The Library Corner on G/F and the Study Zone on Level 3, Main Library, will remain open “after Main Library opening hours” for the use by CURRENT STAFF and CURRENT STUDENTS ONLY.

For enquiry, please call 2859-2203 or 2241-5945.

Best wishes
Peter Sidorko
University Librarian

Find@HKUL is a search tool that helps users discover the HKUL collection through a single search box in one go.

The tool has four tabs, with the default set to the Books + Articles tab. Each tab encompasses a unique dataset. The Books tab enables users to search holdings of the HKUL library catalogue (Dragon). One can also place requests, view the circulation record or even connect to HKALL in this environment. The Articles tab provides access to a large index of articles, conference papers, overseas theses and book chapters. Searching the Articles tab is similar to searching a huge cross-disciplinary database, with full text articles just a click or two away. The Extended Search tab offers a real-time connection to specialized databases, resources which might not be covered under the Articles tab, providing deeper searches into the HKUL collection.

The simple search interface of Find@HKUL facilitates novice searchers to find pertinent information in support of their learning needs. At the same time, the ease of information discovery helps capitalize on the library resources subscribed for the community.

Explore the search tips at http://lib.hku.hk/primo/help/

With the introduction of this new search tool, ResearchPro and ArticleFinder have retired from our service.