Description 
To introduce the major functions of “1-Search” and other searching skills for finding different types of resources for academic research.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:                    

• Understand the basic and advance functions in 1-Search and to search across the Library resources for books, journals, articles, e-resources, etc.;
• Set up personalized options in 1-Search, such as “My Favourites” and “alerts”; and
• Search for different research resources beyond our Library

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Description
To introduce different databases (e.g Statista, CEIC) for finding useful statistical data for quantitative research

Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Distinguish between data and statistics;
• Learn the statistical resources in the Library collection; and
• Search and use some popular financial databases and statistical resources on the Internet

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Description
To introduce the basic skills in using the citation management tool, including “RefWorks” and some other free tools such as Zotero, for organizing citations effectively.

Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Create a RefWorks account
• Import references into the RefWorks account by direct import
• Create bibliographies in different citation formats
• Create in-text references/bibliographies by using Write-N-Cite; and
• Know the basic functions on importing and exporting citations in other free citation management tools (e.g. Zotero)

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Description
To provide skills to create citation and retrieve specific resources for preparation of Arts and Social Sciences courses assignments.

Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Learn how to search information for specific resources on Arts and Humanities, and on Social Sciences;
• Evaluate the research information found; and
• Create citations in MLA and APA citation formats

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Description
To provide fundamental knowledge of the 2 major news databases. Basic skills on detecting fake news will also be discussed.

Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Explore the functions of Factiva and Nexis Uni to discover news articles
• Understand how to locate company information, industry profiles and legal cases; and
• Learn basic principles of spotting fake news, and steps to evaluate news sources

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Invited Speaker:
Ms. Iris LEUNG, Representative from Refinitiv                    

Description
Representatives from the Thomson Reuters Eikon will explain basic functionalities of the financial database on retrieving real-time financials.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the core functions of the Thomson Reuters Eikon interface; and
• Locate real-time financial data, ownership data on public corporations, etc.

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Description 
To provide solid knowledge on using SPSS for building up data file and generating simple statistical analysis.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:                    

• Construct a SPSS data file;
• Manipulate various file format and functions in SPSS; and
• Conduct simple data analysis and prepare graphs with SPSS

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Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - Data Transformation

Description
To explore the basic functions of the free software OpenRefine to clean up the messy data into an organised dataset.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:                    

• Understand basic functions of the OpenRefine interface;
• Construct and import data file into the OpenRefine; and
• Perform data cleaning, data transformation and data exporting

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Invited Speaker:
Ms. Julie LIN, OA Publisher, Emerald

Description
Academic journal publishers adopt highly rigorous selection process in deciding which manuscript to publish. It is important for a researcher to understand about the publication process and ways to submit your work to the publishers.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Develop a set of personal publication strategies
• Know how to survive in Peer Review
• Learn ways to promote one's academic work
• Understand basic principles of Open Access

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Description
To explain the concepts of journal ranking and related journal impact factors as a tool to evaluate the academic publications.

Journal ranking is a set of measurements to evaluate an academic journal's impact and quality relative to other journals in the same academic field. It is an important indicator for researchers to select which journal they will submit their manuscript to.

Upon viewing the webinar recording, you will be able to:

• Understand different journal metrics and how to locate them; and
• Learn the journal ranking and journal impact factors on their academic research

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Invited Speaker:
Mr. Tom LEE, Client Development Associate, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Description
To provide basic skills on using the S&P RatingsDirect Capital IQ on finding financials and reports.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the core functions of the S&P RatingsDirect Capital IQ interface; and
• Apply the database to search for financials, credit reports of a company or a sovereignty, company information, etc.

Note: All students and staff are required to register for an individual account to access S&P RatingsDirect Capital IQ before attending the workshop. Please refer to https://www.library.ln.edu.hk/find/sp-capital-iq-online-reg for details.

Description 
Representatives from the Bloomberg will give an overview of the database for searching and downloading financial data, news and reports.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:                    

• Understand terminology and core functions of the Bloomberg interface; and
• Locate instant financial data of investment markets, company filings, company and industrial news and world macroeconomic news

Description
To dive deeper into a few advanced statistical analysis functions in SPSS.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:                    

• Able to perform some advanced data analysis with SPSS, like Multivariate analysis, Cluster analysis and Factor analysis

Invited Speaker:
Dr. Paula HODGSON, Formerly Professional Consultant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Description
To introduce the key steps in coding, organizing and reorganizing codes to formulate the initial framework of your research projects through NVivo.

NVivo is a program that enables researchers to code qualitative data. It will enable you to build categorization and relations between codes so that themes can be organically evolved in massive amounts of qualitative data during the process. In the workshop, you will learn the key steps in coding, organizing and reorganizing codes to formulate the initial framework of your research projects through NVivo.

Participants can use the PCs in MB202 with NVivo pre-installed.
Participants are also welcome to bring their own devices with NVivo installed before attending the session.
A free trial version lasting for 14 days is available at: https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/trial

Invited Speaker:
Mr. Philip YU, Presales Consultant, Tableau

Description
Representatives from the Tableau will guide you the basic techniques on using this software to manage and visualize your research data.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand core functions of the Tableau interface
• Analyse your data with visualisations (e.g. map, time-series & trends); and
• Build interactive visualizations with the Tableau dashboard

Workshop Venue: MB202

Invited speaker:
Dr. CHU Ming Kin 朱銘堅博士,
Assistant Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
Description
MARKUS is a web platform to automatically or manually perform the markup of Chinese classical text in digital format for your Chinese and historical research.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Recognise the major functions of MARKUS; and
• Learn how to use MARKUS tags to mark-up classical Chinese text

Medium of Instruction: Chinese

Description 
To introduce search strategies in 1-Search and other specific resources for Arts and Social Sciences, and to assess the significance of the information found. Hands-on exercises will be provided.
1-Search is a one-stop searching tool for finding books, journal articles, and multimedia items for the Library.
Arts and Humanities & Social Sciences students are welcomed to attend this workshop to:                    

• Master the searching skills in 1-Search and other library subscribed platforms for academic information
• Have an in-depth understanding on specific resources on Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences subjects
• Evaluate the research information found; and
• Recognise the ethical use of information

Description 
To introduce search strategies in 1-Search and other specific resources for Business Studies, and to assess the significance of the information found. Hands-on exercises will be provided.
1-Search is a one-stop searching tool for finding books, journal articles, and multimedia items for the Library.
Business Studies students are welcomed to attend this workshop to:                    

• Master the searching skills in 1-Search and other library subscribed platforms for academic information
• Have an in-depth understanding on specific resources to find business information and financial statistics effectively
• Evaluate the research information found; and
• Recognise the ethical use of information

Invited speaker:
Dr. Jingjing LIN,
Consultants of Nature Research, Greater China, South Korea and Mongolia, Springer                    

Description
To elaborate a logical manuscript structure, efficient publication strategies and successful journal submission.
Academic journal publishers adopt highly rigorous selection process in deciding which manuscript to publish. It is important for a researcher to understand about the publication process and ways to submit your work to the publishers.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:

• Learn how to prepare a good article for journal submission
• Recognise the peer-review process; and
• Recognise ways to review the choices on publishing targets

Speaker:
Ms. Sheila CHEUNG
Senior Assistant Librarian I, Library                    

Description
As a researcher, having your research to be noticed and discovered is an important key to success. This workshop will introduce the following key concepts to help you as a researcher to raise your visibility throughout your knowledge creation process:

• Establish your identity as a Researcher (ORCID iD)
• Publishing - Paywall VS OA (Open Access)
• Rights as an Author; and
• Deposit your scholarly works

Invited speaker: Dr. Ju CHEN,
Big Data Consultant (Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China), Research Intelligence Digital Analysis, Elsevier
Description
To explain the concepts of journal ranking and related journal impact factors as a tool to evaluate the academic publications.
Journal ranking is a set of measurements to evaluate an academic journal's impact and quality relative to other journals in the same academic field. It is an important indicator for researchers to select which journal they will submit their manuscript to.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Understand different journal metrics and how to locate them; and
• Learn the journal ranking and journal impact factors on their academic research

Description 
To introduce library collection and free resources on statistics; as well as online databases about thesis and dissertations. Hands-on exercises on using specific statistical resources will be provided.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Understand how to use certain statistical resources from the Library and on the Internet
• Select and apply suitable statistical resources and databases for academic research and study use; and
• Locate thesis and dissertations from different countries

Description 
To introduce advanced statistical analysis in SPSS.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Able to perform some advanced data analysis with SPSS, like Multivariate analysis, Cluster analysis and Factor analysis

Description 
To provide basic knowledge on using SPSS for building up data file and generating simple statistical analysis.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Construct a SPSS data file
• Acquire skills in manipulating various file format and functions in SPSS
• Understand the basic functions on grouping of the data (e.g. Compute, Transform)
• Conduct descriptive data analysis and prepare graphs with SPSS

Description 
To introduce the major functions of “1-Search” and other searching skills for finding different types of resources for academic research.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Understand the basic and advance functions in 1-Search and to search across the Library resources for books, journals, articles, e-resources, etc.;
• Set up personalized options in 1-Search, such as “My Favourites” and “alerts”; and
• Search for different research resources beyond our Library

Description 
To provide skills to create citation and in retrieve specific resources for preparation of Arts and Social Sciences courses assignments.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Learn how to search information for specific resources on Arts and Humanities, and on Social Sciences;
• Evaluate the research information found; and
• Create citation in MLA and APA citation formats

Description
To introduce how to retrieve specific resources to prepare for Business Studies courses assignment.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Understand specific resources to find company information and financial statistics
• Evaluate the research information found; and
• Create citation in APA citation format

Description 
To introduce different databases for finding useful statistical data for quantitative research.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Distinguish between data and statistics
• Learn the statistical resources in the Library collection; and
• Search and use some popular financial databases and statistical resources on the Internet

Description 
To introduce the basic skills in using the citation management tool, “RefWorks” for organizing citations for research effectively.
Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to:                    

• Create a RefWorks account
• Import references into the RefWorks account by direct import
• Create bibliographies in different citation formats
• Create in-text references/bibliographies by using Write-N-Cite; and
• Backup & restore RefWorks Account