Easy to Search and Ready to Read on ProQuest EBOOK Central

E-Resources
(Issue 106/Apr 2018)

Three popular English e-book collections, including MyiLibrary, Ebrary, and EBL, are now available via the ProQuest EBook Central platform. This all-in-one platform offers many improved features such as Download e-book chapters, Highlight in three different colors, Page bookmarking, Create your own notes and bookshelf.

Creating an account in the ProQuest EBook Central today to explore the wealth of knowledge from more than 26,000 English eBooks on all subject disciplines!

If you would like to know more about eBooks in the Library, please Live-Chat-a-Librarian or visit us at the Reference Desk on G/F.

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Book Talk on “真．君子商贏之道”

Library Events
(Issue 105/Apr 2018)

The Library and Research Institute for Business are honoured to have Dr Felix Tang and Dr Ting-ting Xie, two of the editors, and Dr Yam-wing Siu and Dr Kaz Kwok, two authors of some book chapters, as the speakers in the coming book talks. Some more authors may join us too. They will share with us why the concept of “Junzi” and its five virtues are still important to today’s business and interesting “behind the scene” stories happened during the preparation of the book. Below please find the details:

Date: 19 and 20 April 2018

Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Venue: Exhibition Area, G/F, Library, S H Ho Academic Building (Block A)

You can search the book in SearchPlus.

Open Access Week @ Library

Library Events
(Issue 105/Apr 2018)

Any idea what is Open Access? Open Access refers to unrestricted access and use of scholarly research outputs. How may it benefit you? The Library is going to have an Open Access Week from 23-27 April 2018. You are invited to come to the exhibition on the G/F of the Library and explore more!

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Databases on Trial

E-Resources
(Issue 105/Apr 2018)

From April to May, the Library has arranged free trial of databases on various types of resources. These electronic resources may be relevant to your study areas and broaden your knowledge. Please click HERE for more details and send feedback to the Library.

    • Database

1. The Belt and Road Initiative Reference Source

2. International Political Science Abstracts (A&I only)

    • eBook

3. Wiley Major Reference Works

4. Chinamaxx Digital Libraries: 中文集献

    • Newspapers primary sources

5. Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010

6. The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014

    • Video

7. Wanfang Video – 開卷八分鐘

24/7 @ Library 24 Hours Study Area (23 April 2018 – 19 May 2018)

Facilities and Services
(Issue 105/Apr 2018)

To facilitate students’ study and preparation for the examination, the Library will operate the 24 Hours Study Area at G/F of the Library during the final examination period.

Starting from 23 Apr 2018 (Mon 8:30 am) to 19 May 2018 (Sat 5:00 pm), you can access the area to boost up your study.

Please CLICK for more information. To ensure safety, the Area is safeguarded by Security Guard. Library users are required to have valid student ID cards in order to access the Area. Please tap your valid student card to the card reader next to the side door (G/F of the Library) to enter the Area.

Library Workshop: Visualizing Your Research Data

User Education
(Issue 104/Mar 2018)

Your presented data would be interpreted more effectively if it could be visualised. This workshop will introduce some handy and useful tools that help to create graphs, charts, maps and other infographics. Together with desktop publishing techniques, your work will become more presentable. Join our workshop on 4 April (Wednesday).

Remarks: For convenience, participants are advised to bring along their own notebook computers for software installation.

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Subject Highlight – Actuarial Studies and Insurance

Library Collections
(Issue 104/Mar 2018)

You can access your programme’s resources at anytime and anywhere.The Library has subscribed to an eBook subject collection in Mathematics & Statistics from Wiley for the programme Actuarial Studies and Insurance recently.

Tips on searching these eBooks:

Go to the Library website, click Databases A-Z list, select Wiley Online Library then type in keyword actuarial or insurance in the search box, over 13,000 related books are available for your study and learning.

You may also find other different types of resources relevant to this programme such as e-journals, reference works and multi-media through the Subject Guides.

For further assistance, please feel free to contact our Learning Support Librarian or email to ask_librarian@hsmc.edu.hk