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HKUST Scholarly Publications Database

The HKUST Scholarly Publications Database is the product of the Knowledge Harvesting Project between the Library and the Office of the Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies (VPRGO) conducted during 2010-2012. The aim of the project was to build a publication analysis system to identify areas of excellence in research.

Goals

  • To host a complete and accurate index of publications authored by HKUST researchers
  • To establish author profiles of current faculty members to showcase their publications, bibliometrics and research interests in a single interface
  • To provide an infrastructure for performing further analysis on publications

Scope and Coverage

More than 49,000 publications produced by the HKUST researchers have been indexed in the database, covering journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and books. For current faculty members, their publications produced before joining the University are also included. Links to full-text are also provided.

We have set up author profiles for over 490 faculty members.

Milestones and Timeline

  • Dec 2009 - Project initiated
  • Jan 2011 - Beta version released; 34,000 publication data loaded
  • May 2011 - Began author profile creation
  • Feb 2012 - Started creating author profiles for current faculty members
  • Jun 2012 - Released over 450 profiles of our current faculty members for public access
  • Mar 2013 - Over 120,000 page visits were recorded in the past six months, with 54% of visits outside of the campus

Benefits

  • One-stop portal for complete and accurate listing of publications
  • Seamless compilation of bibliometrics by pulling citation figures from scattered sources
  • Increase visibility of faculty members' publications and expertise in the Internet search engines
  • Readily available infra-structure for more added-value services on knowledge analysis

VPRGO and the Library will continue to work closely to sustain this one-stop university-wide scholarly publications platform, with enriched tools to be used internally by schools and departments for various analyzing and reporting purposes, and externally by industries and researchers for knowledge discovery. For instance, the Database is being utilized to feed faculty members' publication data for the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

Your contribution and support is essential for the success of this project and the whole knowledge harvesting effort. For any questions, you are welcomed to contact:


Search the Database

by Publications
  • Search by title, author, subject, summary, issn/isbn fields

  • Browse by Author
  • Browse by Subject
  • Advanced Search; users can search by title, author, subject, summary, issn/isbn fields and limit search results by article, book, book chapter, conference paper or working paper.

by Author Profiles
  • the Author Profiles can be searched by authors' names or research interests.

    To display the list of author profiles, users can click the 'Find' button (see screen above), without entering a search term, to see the Author Profiles home page.


Author Profiles

The author profiles home page shows the list of authors in alphabetical order. Publication details can be searched or browsed from the home page.

An author profile is set up for each faculty member. It has the following information tabs:

  • Publications tab - lists the author's publications, with sorting/filtering capability by formats, dates and times cited, etc.

  • Bibliometrics tab - provides bibliometrics of the author's publications in the database and links to external bibliometrics sites, such as Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search and Scopus.

    • If you have already created a Google Scholar Citations profile, please email lbspi@ust.hk and let us know so that we can include it in your HKUST scholarly publications profile. For a quick overview, see our Online Tutorial on Google Scholar Citations. To find out more about Google Scholar Citations, follow the Research Guide for details.

  • Research interests tab - shows the author's research interests.

Faculty members can edit their own profiles by:

  1. Clicking the "Edit my profile" link.
  2. Logging in using ITSC accounts.

  3. Once logged in, they can update their contact information and research interests, or choose which tabs to suppress/display.


Report problems

Faculty members may also make use of the following methods to submit new/missing publications and report errors:

  • Submit new / missing publications - New publications, updated CVs or missing publications can be submitted for inclusion in the author profile, in both Word and PDF formats. See screen below. The Library will process your publications and add them to the database as soon as possible.

  • Report publication errors - Comments concerning a publication can be submitted via the "report problem" link. Brief steps are as follow:

    1. Clicking the "Edit my profile" link.
    2. Logging in using ITSC accounts.

    3. Once logged in, click the Publications tab to display the list of publications.

    4. Select the publication(s) to be reported and press 'Go' button on the Report Problem line.

    5. A pop-up window opens. Enter comments or problems about the selected publication(s) then press the 'send' button.

  • General comments or questions can be sent to lbspi@ust.hk

last modified 15 March 2013
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