In September, we featured six new books by HKUST professors. Just two months later, we have another five to showcase, including two fictions.

Last week, Dr. Rebecca Grant from Nature Research Academies held a very informative webinar for HKUST researchers on managing sensitive research data. Here we revisit a few important tips.

Data is the foundation of information and knowledge. Making data openly accessible and free to use can support governments, businesses and individuals to create new value that can benefit the society, economy, and environment.

A smart city uses innovation and technology to address urban challenges, improve the effectiveness of public services, make the city more liveable and sustainable. To achieve these, open data is an essential foundation.

A survey was conducted to find out researchers’ publishing habits, the factors they consider when deciding which journal to publish their work, and their views on the author pay-to-publish model.

As a researcher, sometimes you may need to share your data to meet publishers’ or funders’ requirement, but the process of preparing your data can be tedious and time-consuming. In this regard, DataSpace@HKUST can help.

In an online seminar, Prof. Cameron Campbell used datasets of 3 projects to illustrate research data management practices. His advises are not only applicable for historical data, but also valuable for researchers in many disciplines.

If you use a database to find papers by HKUST researchers, do you key in "HKUST" or spell it out in full? Which way do you think is more effective to find what you want? What if you are looking for HKU papers?

Library Research Support Services recently did a small-scale study to learn about the text and data mining (TDM) policies of some of our databases. We found that most of them allow TDM under certain conditions.

According to GII 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to impede some innovative activities. On the other hand, it may also help drive ingenuity and global collaboration in science.