Increasingly, researchers are expected to actively manage their research data throughout the life-cycle of scholarly interest. Learning research data management best practices has become essential, especially for early career researchers.

“In general, we observe that it is better to publish in Open Access venues to optimise citation and Altmetric attention. Both measures are improved by being funded and collaborating internationally.”¹

An early peek into two upcoming books by our professors in the Division of Humanities: one on the philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, one on Chinese animation.

Impact starts with attention; and you certainly want to draw attention to your research work. Ms. Lyndsey Dixon, Editorial Director of Taylor & Francis, gave an informative talk on how to publicize our research for higher impact.

Come to learn about research data management best practices with experts from Digital Curation Centre!

Having confidence in my own academic honesty, I used to pay little attention to anti-plagiarism, believing that I would never have the intention to cheat in my research writing. But recently I realize I had missed the point!

Finding research funding and tracking progress of your own proposals are literally at your fingertips when you use this new mobile app HKUST Research built by the Research Office.

When you look for literature for your research topics, where do you often start? Google Scholars appears to be a popular choice; yet,

Prepared by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission), this report analyses the present states of scholarly communication and publishing, and proposes ten principles through which a vision for scholarly communication should be shaped over the next decade. The report also offers recommendations to key stakeholders including researchers, institutions, funder and others in the scholarly communication landscape. The full report is available at Publications Office of the European Union.

About Publications Office

"The Publications Office of the European Union (Publications Office), based in Luxembourg, is an interinstitutional office whose task is to publish the publications of the institutions of the European Union (Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom). Its core activities include production and dissemination of legal and general publications in a variety of paper and electronic formats, managing a range of websites providing EU citizens, governments and businesses with digital access to official information and data from the EU, including EUR-Lex, the EU Open Data Portal, EU Publications, TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), CORDIS and ensuring long-term preservation of content produced by EU institutions and bodies" (Source: Who we are).

“After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.” – This is the key principle of Plan S, the mandate proposed by cOAlition S to accelerate the transition of scholarly publishing system towards open access.