Steve Yip Head of Reference and Research Services HKUST Library Research Support Provided by HKUST Library and other JULAC Libraries in HK 1 Date : March 22, 2011

hk 2 Research Service Provided by HKUST Library Number of Other JULAC Libraries that Provide the Same Service Research Consultation for Faculty and PGs Most Citation Search for Faculty Most Bibliographic Management Tool - RefWorks All - RefWorks and/or EndNote Research Workshops and Guides All Institutional Repository (IR) -covers all types of scholarly output AllAll- if we use a loose definition of IR HKIE Library provides some services that are not available at most other JULAC Libraries

Research Support Provided by HKUST Library 3

Research Consultation 4

Citation Search Certification 5

Research Workshops and Guides 6  Every year, offers many research workshops e.g., RefWorks, Chemical Literature, Engineeing Information.  Four individual workshops entitled "Analyze and Improve Your Citation Counts" conducted for our Schools of Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Engineering between 7-10 December 2009 Four individual workshops entitled "Analyze and Improve Your Citation Counts" conducted for our Schools of Business and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Engineering between 7-10 December 2009  Subject, Course and Database Guides SubjectCourseDatabase

HKUST Institutional Repository (IR) 7  An initiative of the HKUST Library  Collects, makes available, and preserves in digital format the full-text of the scholarly output created by the HKUST community.  Launched in 2003, was the first of its kind in Hong Kong.  Uses DSpace, an open source software developed at MIT

HKUST Institutional Repository (IR) 8  The repository focuses on, but is not restricted to: journal articles, datasets, book chapters, conference and workshop papers, theses and dissertations, research and technical reports, patents, preprints, presentations in conferences and seminars, working papers.

HKUST Institutional Repository (IR) 9  More information, such as promotion, acquisition and processing of the documents, and systems development, can be found from the following journal articles published by us :  Building an institutional repository : sharing experiences at the HKUST Library, OCLC Systems & Services, v. 23, iss. 3, 2007, p  Exploring research data hosting at the HKUST Institutional Repository, Serials review, v. 35, no. 3, 2009, p

HKUST Institutional Repository (IR) 10  Building and sustaining digital repositories in support of global information access and collaboration, Journal of Library and Information Science, v.32, no.1, April 2006, p  From idea to reality : building the HKUST Institutional Repository, National Taiwan University Library Journal, v. 10, no. 1, March  Changing roles of reference librarians : the case of HKUST Institutional Repository, Reference Services Review 2005, v. 33, no. 3, 2005, p

HKUST Scholarly Publication Index (SPI) 11  Contains bibliographic records (not full-text) of scholarly publications of HKUST researchers.  A joint project of “Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (VPRGO)” and the Library starting in The mission is to provide a complete list of the University's scholarly research output.  It uses the open source software VuFind, which provides faceted browsing and other Web 2.0 features.

HKUST Scholarly Publication Index (SPI) 12  The index is still in development. To ensure its comprehensiveness, we are harvesting records from Web of Science, Scopus and other databases as well as including metadata from the “Research Output Collection System” maintained by VPRGO.  Records in the index are linked to the full text publications in subscribed resources via a link resolver.  Records in the index can show the citation counts in Web of Science and Scopus.

Hong Kong Institutional Repositories (HKIR) 13  A meta-index to the institutional repositories of the eight JULAC libraries.  Developed and maintained by the HKUST Library since  In 2011, it also starts to use the open source software VuFind.

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