Last week we introduced 8 new scitech books authored or edited by HKUST faculty and researchers. This post showcases the other new books in humanities and social sciences.

HKUST authors publish over 2,000 journal papers every year, how many of them are openly accessible? The Library analyzed our institutional publishing profile, the study will help us when we negotiate new contracts with publishers.

Fifteen books were found published in 2019 by HKUST professors and researchers via the SPD - Institutional Repository: 8 in science and technology; 7 in humanities and social sciences.

For the first time, NSF S&E Indicator 2018 report showed that China has overtaken the U.S. in the total number of S&E research publications in 2016. The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2020 report reveals an even bigger gap.

This week is Fair Dealing & Fair Use Week, a time to celebrate using and sharing the fruits of our minds in a fair way.

Academic publishing has long been a low investment high profit business. How can academic publishers maintain such a successful business model?

Data Management Plan (DMP) is becoming a popular tool for research management. HKUST researchers can now write DMPs using the DMP SandBox, an online platform the Library is piloting.

In this Spring term, Researchers’ Series has new workshops under 4 themes: Authorship, Copyright, Data and Impact. Library instructors will conduct them online via Zoom.

At the beginning of 2020, a massive open access (OA) contract was finalized between 700+ research institutions in Germany and the major academic publisher Springer Nature. How does this agreement affect researchers in Hong Kong?

What does the story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland “look” like to a digital text analyzer? Let’s find out using the free text-mining tools Voyant!