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***Library Workshop: EBSCOhost & ProQuest Research Databases***
EBSCOhost & ProQuest Research Databases cover publications from various
disciplines (Business, Science & Technology, Humanities & Social Sciences,
Medical Science) and Dissertations.
They provide access to abstracts or full-text of articles from over 10,000
academic journals and magazines. It also includes:
-Country reports
-Company and Industry Profiles
-SWOT Analyses
-Dissertations and Theses
*** Library Workshop: LexisNexis Academic & WiseNews ***
LexisNexis Academic and WiseNews are two primary databases giving
full-text access to thousands of newspaper sources around the world.
These two databases complement each other in terms of geographic coverage.
LexisNexis Academic contains over 6,000 English language sources,
including US and international newspapers, magazines, news wires, and
broadcast transcripts. WiseNews specializes in Chinese language newspapers
published in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Macau.
This workshop will demonstrate effective searching of the databases with
hands-on exercises.
*** Library Workshop: RefWorks ***
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool you can use to
support your research activities.
This workshop will teach you how to:
– organize your personal citation database
– import references from various databases
– create in-text references using Write-N-Cite
– format a bibliography or reference list in various citation styles
Two identical sessions will be held on:
*** Library Workshop: SciFinder Scholar ***
SciFinder Scholar is the most comprehensive database of chemical
literature, structures and reactions. It is an essential tool for
researchers in chemistry and chemical engineering.
This workshop will show you how to:
-Search for chemical literature by author, title, topic, chemical name,
CAS Registry Number and molecular formula
-Use the structure drawing tools to perform structure and reaction searches
-Locate the journal articles that have cited a particular journal article,
conference paper or patent
-Browse the table of contents of core journals
-Analyze and refine search results
Two identical sessions will be held on:
*** Library Workshop: Reuters 3000 Xtra ***
The Department of Finance and the Library will jointly offer open
workshops for Reuters 3000 Xtra, a premium database for integrated
financial information.
It covers:
– Stocks, warrants, options, futures and indices traded in worldwide
exchanges
– Fixed income securities including Treasury and corporate bonds
– Cross rates and a vast range of economic indicators
– Company profiles with financial statements of the past 10 to 15 years
– 2 years of international business and financial news
The workshop will show you how to:
– Find and retrieve current & historical data on stocks, indices, exchange
rates, etc.
– Search for companies that meet certain criteria (e.g., PE ratio,
dividend yield)
– Compare stocks in the same or different sectors
– Plot and download the price line graph of one or more instruments
*NEW DATABASE ANNOUNCEMENT*
*Title:*
Datastream with Worldscope Add-On
*Description:*
An extensive financial database which provides information
on millions of financial instruments including equities and
fixed-income securities for more than 175 countries and 60
markets worldwide.
It covers Worldscope’s historical annual and interim/quarterly
data, standardized financial statement content, share data and
ratios, and stock performance information. Data on bonds,
unit and investment trusts, interest and exchange rates,
equity and bond indices, economic indicators, options and
futures as well as commodities are also available.
The subscription includes two delivery platforms (DS Advance
and DS Windows) and Advance for Office (AFO) which allows
users to build complex models, charts, and reports in
Microsoft Office.
*NEW DATABASE ANNOUNCEMENT*
The following E-book databases have been added to
the Library collection:
*Ebrary*
Contains 4,400 e-books from leading publishers in a wide
variety of subject areas and disciplines. Users have to install
a plug-in program once in order to view the contents.
*Oxford Scholarship Online*
Includes over 1,800 e-books published by the Oxford University
Press in multiple disciplines with an emphasis on the
humanities and social sciences.
*Oxford Digital Reference Shelf*
Provides access to 26 reference titles published by the
Oxford University Press. Most of them are dictionaries and
encyclopedias in the humanities and social science subjects.
*** Library Workshop: Reuters 3000 Xtra ***
The Department of Finance and the Library will jointly offer open
workshops for Reuters 3000 Xtra, a premium database for integrated
financial information.
It covers:
– Stocks, warrants, options, futures and indices traded in worldwide
exchanges
– 500,000 bonds, 175 currencies and a vast range of economic indicators
– Company profiles with financial statements of the past 10 to 15 years
– 2 years of international business and financial news
The workshop will show you how to:
– Find and retrieve current & historical data on stocks, indices, exchange
rates, etc.
– Search for companies that meet certain criteria (e.g., PE ratio,
dividend yield)
– Compare stocks in the same or different sectors
– Plot and download the price line graph of one or more instruments
*** Library Workshop: EBSCOhost & ProQuest Research Databases ***
EBSCOhost & ProQuest Research Databases cover publications from various
disciplines: Business, Science & Technology, Humanities & Social Sciences,
Medical Science and Dissertations.
Together, they provide access to abstracts or full-text of documents from
over 10,000 academic journals and magazines. It also includes:
-SWOT Analyses
-Country and Industry Profiles
-Market Research Reports and Product Reviews
-Dissertations and Theses
This workshop will demonstrate the effective searching of these databases.
Web of Science (1991-) provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded
(SCI Expanded) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). These two
databases together cover over 8,000 top international journals in science,
engineering, business and social sciences. Users can also navigate to
electronic full-text journal articles subscribed by the HKUST Library.
They, therefore, are important tools for scholarly research in all these
fields.
This workshop will show you how to:
– Perform general searches by author, title, topic, etc.
– Obtain full-text of the retrieved articles.
– Find articles that have cited a particular author or work.
– Trace the number of times that an article has been cited
– Discover key papers on a particular topic.
– Locate related articles that share one or more cited references.
– Receive emails on new articles which cite your chosen articles as
references.
– Analyze search results by author, institution, journal, etc.
*** Library Workshop: SciFinder Scholar ***
SciFinder Scholar is the most comprehensive database of chemical
literature, structures and reactions. It is an essential tool for
researchers in chemistry and chemical engineering.
This workshop will show you how to:
-Search for chemical literature by author, title, topic, chemical name,
CAS Registry Number and molecular formula
-Use the structure drawing tools to perform structure and reaction searches
-Locate the journal articles that have cited a particular journal article,
conference paper or patent
-Browse the table of contents of core journals
-Analyze and refine search results
Two identical sessions will be held on:
*** Library Workshop: Reuters 3000 Xtra ***
The Department of Finance and the Library will jointly offer open
workshops for Reuters 3000 Xtra, a premium database for integrated
financial information.
It covers:
– Stocks, warrants, options, futures and indices traded in worldwide
exchanges
– 500,000 bonds, 175 currencies and a vast range of economic indicators
– Company profiles with financial statements of the past 10 to 15 years
– 2 years of international business and financial news
The workshop will show you how to:
– Find and retrieve current & historical data on stocks, indices, exchange
rates, etc.
– Search for companies that meet certain criteria (e.g., PE ratio,
dividend yield)
– Compare stocks in the same or different sectors
– Plot and download the price line graph of one or more instruments
*** Library Workshop: LexisNexis Academic & WiseNews ***
LexisNexis Academic and WiseNews are two primary databases giving
full-text access to thousands of newspaper sources around the world.
These two databases complement each other in terms of geographic coverage.
LexisNexis Academic contains over 6,000 English language sources,
including US and international newspapers, magazines, news wires, and
broadcast transcripts. WiseNews specializes in Chinese language
newspapers published in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Macau.
This workshop will demonstrate effective searching of the databases with
hands-on exercises.
*** Library Workshop: Business & News Information on China ***
The implementation of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) have created
opportunities as well as challenges for the Hong Kong economy. Tapping
into the latest business and news information becomes critical in
conducting research in this fast-changing economic environment.
This workshop will demonstrate ways to retrieve first-hand business and
statistical information on China from the Library’s collection, including
electronic databases (China InfoBank, EIU.com and World Consumer Markets)
and Internet resources.
*** Library Workshop: RefWorks ***
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool you can use to
support your research activities. This workshop will teach you how to:
– organize your personal citation database
– import references from various databases
– create in-text references using Write-N-Cite
– format a bibliography or reference list in various citation styles
Two identical sessions will be held on:
