2022/2023 Program

The Researchers’ Series is the Library’s program for researchers. It covers topics that relate to efficient management of research process in 4 themes. Some sessions are qualified for Professional Development Course for RPGs. Check the PDC System for status.

Authorship

Copyright

Data

Impact

Academic Integrity & Intellectual Property (1.5hr)

Academic honesty and integrity are critical values to scholars, this session will focus on:

Judging What is Plagiarism & How to Avoid It
Differences between Plagiarism and Copyright Violation
Hong Kong Copyright Law and Legitimate Use and Fair Dealing
HKUST Intellectual Property Policies

Note

1.5 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

PDEV 6770 A/B/E

(CWB) 15 March 2023 / 21 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]

PDEV 6770 C/D

(CWB) 23 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]

Altmetric for Researchers (1hr)

Altmetrics is an emergent way to assess research impact. Knowing what it means and how to use it is helpful for you to manage your research output and profile. Join us for for this session and find out how to:

Altmetric Basics: An Overview
Effective Promotion of Research: Tips and Tricks
Understanding the Altmetric Attention Score
Writing Compelling Narratives with Altmetric Data

(CWB) 7 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]

Author Rights, Copyright & Publishing (1hr)

Publishing articles is one of the most common ways for researchers to share their results. But it can be complicated by copyright transfer agreements, funding agency requirements, etc. In this workshop we will address questions like:

What rights can I keep when I publish?
How can I use my own work after I publish?
What’s an APC (article processing charge) ?
What’s Open Access and does licensing relate to peer review?

1 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.
(CWB) 3 April 2023 / 4 April 2024 [ CLOSED ]

Copyright and Creative Commons for Educators (1.5hr)

The Library is hosting a talk on copyright issues in relation to teaching & research. This seminar will cover:

Basic concepts of copyright in Hong Kong (e.g. ownership, acts restricted by copyright)
Permitted acts relevant to teaching and research
Copyright licensing bodies in Hong Kong
Introduction to Creative Commons

1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.
(CWB) 27 March 2023 [Cancelled]

Data Disaster Prevention (1hr)

Careful management of your research data can prevent disasters. In this workshop, you will:

Look at data disasters scenarios & work out causes and solutions
Learn and share tips on data disaster prevention

- - - (CWB) 9 March 2023 / 29 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
      1 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Data Discovery & Citation Workshop (1hr)

Sharing and using research data is common across all disciplines. In this Library workshop you will learn:

Tips and methods for searching & finding data sets in your research area
How to follow “terms of use” for data sets
Basics of citing date

1 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.
[TBC]

Data Management Plan (1.5hr)

A data management plan (DMP) is an active document which you start writing at the early stage of your research, and continue to revise it as your research progresses. A DMP describes the data you plan to collect, intended data organization, storage and safe-keeping mechanism. It is becoming common for institutions and research funders to require researchers submit DMPs with research proposals or grant applications.

This unit will help you to:

Understand how DMP can help you manage your research
Draft a DMP using DMPTool@HKUST

- (CWB) 15 March 2023 / 22 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

Data Visualization with Tableau – An introduction (1.5hr)

Data visualization skill is one of the most sought-after professional skills for researchers. Join us for an introductory workshop on Tableau, one of the most widely used data analytics and visualization tools today and learn about the Tableau product family, data preparation, best practices on visual presentation and have some hands-on experience on visualizing data into various chart types and interactive dashboards.

(CWB) 1 March 2023 / 2 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Emerging Open Science Tools for Literature Search (1.5hr)

This workshop will introduce and demonstrate several emerging literature searching tools which are built on open citation data: InCiteful, Connected Papers, scite, and Semantic Scholar.

These emerging tools make use of citation relations and/or semantic meaning of the underlying data and suggest relevant works that you probably will not be able to find through traditional keyword searches in databases such as Web of Science and Scopus.

Through this workshop, you will learn:

An overview of emerging literature search tools in recent years
How these tools work and how they are different from Web of Science or Scopus
How to make the most of these tools in different research stages of your study

- (CWB) 8 March 2023 / 9 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis (2hr)

Description: R is a free and popular software for statistical analysis. This workshop will introduce the R environment (RStudio / RStudio Cloud), cover the basic tasks such as import data into R, descriptive and inferential statistics, and visualization of data.

Intended Learning Outcomes (After taking this workshop, students will be able to):

Import Excel and CSV data files into R and use various R packages and functions to perform descriptive and inferential statistical analysis such as calculation of mean, mode, median and standard deviation, independent t-test, paired t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and regression analysis.
Data visualization with R plot.

[TBC]
2 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Intellectual Property and Me (1hr)

As scholars, it is important to understand intellectual property: our rights and obligations as information users and creators.

This 60 minute session will focus on:

What is Intellectual Property
Hong Kong Copyright Law, Legitimate Use and Fair Dealing
Public Domain & Creative Commons Licensing
HKUST’s Intellectual Property Policies

- (CWB) 30 March 2023 / 31 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

Introduction to Research Data Management (1.5hr)

Active management of your research data helps you keep your research progress on track and accountable.

This is an introduction unit to Research Data Management (RDM). It explores with you:

important concepts about RDM
FAIR principles for data
basic understanding of metadata for managing research data

- [TBC]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Introduction to Scite (1hr)

We invite you to attend the workshop on Scite, which is a smart citation index that displays the context of citations using AI.

In this workshop, you will learn about:

how Scite’s citation analysis (supporting, contrasting, and mentioning) works
how to use Scite to find well supported academic papers and critical debates of a given topic

- (CWB) 3 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]

LaTeX Workshop for RPGs (2 modules, 1.5hr per each)

LaTeX is a free, high-quality document preparation system to help you write theses, technical and scientific documents.

Module 1 will cover:

Basic functions of Overleaf interface
Automate making chapters, sections, figures, and tables
Adding Images and captions

Module 2 will focus on: (note: Recommend for those who registered or completed the Module 1 of the workshop or those who have related Latex knowledge covered in Module 1.):

Formatting complex mathematical formulas& other discipline-specific diagrams
Creating in-text citation & bibliographies.
Using the Overleaf templates

This workshop will focus on getting started LaTeX with Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/project)
No previous experience with LaTeX is necessary

(CWB) 28 February 2023 (Module 1) [ CLOSED ]
(CWB) 2 March 2023 (Module 2) [ CLOSED ]
1.5 hour/module will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Making an Impact – Tracking Your Research Metrics (1.5hr)

Metrics illuminate the impact of your research outputs. Promotion and tenure committees, funders, advisors, research team leaders and potential collaborators are all interested in information about impact. In this session, you will learn more about research metrics and tools for assessing your research impact.

What are Research Metrics?
Types of Research Metrics
Using Research Metrics
Tracking Research Metrics
Researcher Profiles

(CWB) 13 February 2023 / 14 February 2023 [ CLOSED ]
1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Mining text with Voyant tool: an introduction (1hr)

Voyant tool is a free, web-based, and easy-to-use platform for exploring and analyzing a large amount of unstructured text. This workshop is designed to introduce you with the basic functions of Voyant tool. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Importing text into Voyant tool
Exploring the themes/key phrases within a text and to formulate research questions
Discovering the patterns, distributions, and connections between the themes/key phrases and to answer research questions
Creating and exporting your visualization

(CWB) 29 March 2023 [ CLOSED ] / 18 April 2023 [Register here]
1 credit hour will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/C/D/E.

Open Access What Where How (1.5hr)

Making your research work openly accessible is becoming the norm in many disciplines. When you publish a paper with a journal, you have to make decisions relating to open access. Your choices are not only your own preferences, but you may have to comply with certain institutional policies. In this workshop, you will clarify some common but confusing OA terms and practices, for example:

What is Green/Gold/Bronze OA? What are Gold/Hybrid OA journals?
Where & How do we make works OA? Do we have to pay for it?
How do I choose a proper OA license?
What OA policies should I know, and how to comply with them?

- (CWB) 14 March 2023 / 16 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the professional development course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

Reference Management Tools (1.5hr)

As a researcher, you continuously collect references to build your own knowledge base. Reference managers are software that help you to:

Build and store your references
Organize and manage citations within folders
Build bibliographies
Automatically format and insert citations in your writing

This workshop gives you an overview of the four popular choices of reference managing software: EndNote Basic, Mendeley, Refworks and Zotero. We will use Zotero to demonstrate how to collect sources, organize them, cite in-text and generate bibliographies.

- (CWB) 21 March 2023 [ CLOSED ] / 14 April 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

RefWorks – Make Your Reference Work for You (1.5hr)

RefWorks is a powerful online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers to gather, organized, store and share references. In this workshop, you will look closely and learn how to:

Import references from various databases into RefWorks account
Create bibliographies in various citation style
Use Write-n-Cite to create bibliographies in Microsoft Word

(CWB) 8 March 2023 / 10 March 2023 / 13 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV6770A/C/D/E.

Search Research Literature (1.5hr)

Your subject librarian will show you useful tips and skills to search for research literature effectively. The session will focus on:

Major Subject Databases & E-resources
Smart Searching in Library Databases & Google Scholar
Locating High Impact Journals and Articles

1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/B/C/D/E.

PDEV 6770D for SHSS

[TBC]

PDEV 6770 B/E

(CWB) 6 March 2023 / 7 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]

PDEV 6770C for SBMT

[TBC]

PDEV 6770A for LIFS, CHEM & OCES

(CWB) 21 February 2023 / 23 February 2023 [ CLOSED ]

PDEV 6770A for PHYS & MATH

[TBC]

Select the Right Journal for Publishing (1.5hr)

Journal selection is a key step in academic publishing. With the ever-growing number of journals in any given field, it can be difficult to determine which one to go for. This workshop will introduce tools and tips to help you evaluate and select suitable journals in your field or for your article.

After this workshop, you will be able to:

Understand the general criteria of journal selection
Recognize available journal evaluation tools and metrics
Identify quality and relevant journals in a research field
Identify potential predatory journals and ways to avoid them

(CWB) 21 March 2023 / 23 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the professional development course requirement of PDEV 6770 A/B/C/D/E.

Supplementary Info in PDF is Not Enough – Apply FAIR Principles to Your Chemical Data (1.5hr)

It has been a long-standing tradition that chemists submit Supplementary Info (SI) to a journal alongside their research manuscript. The SI adds further details and credibility to the author’s study, such as information on material preparation, synthesis, and characterization graphs. However, these valuable details in SI are often kept in a PDF file with very limited room for navigation and replication.

The value of research data can go way beyond the paper for which it is created. In this workshop, we will explore how we can apply Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data sharing principles to share your chemical data via data repositories in a documented and organized fashion. The workshop is intended for students working on synthesizing and characterization of small compounds, but those who work with chemical data in general are also welcome.

- (CWB) 16 March 2023 / 23 March 2023 [ CLOSED ]
  1.5 credit hours will be counted toward the course requirement of PDEV 6770A/E.

Web Scraping for Non-Technical Researchers (1.5hr)

Web scraping can be a useful technique for researchers, as it allows them to efficiently and automatically extract data from websites for analysis, making their research process more efficient and repeatable. Not all web scraping requires programming. This workshop will introduce and demonstrate two no-code tools that can help scrape data from the web.