Library Service Update

Library Service Update

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ISSUE NO.9 24 August 2004

Upcoming Events

Library workshop Schedule for Oct 04 semester

Need to find set textbooks, reference materials, or past exam papers for your assignments and exams? Please join in the Library Workshops as follows:

Date	Time	Venue	Session(s)	Status
02/10/2004 (Sat)	2:00-4:30pm	BOC Theater	Introduction Remote Access (w/ demo)	No registration needed
07/10/2004 (Thu)	7:00-8:30pm	Lang Lab (Library)	Introduction	Open for registration
10/10/2004 (Sun)	2:00-4:30pm	Lang Lab (Library)	Introduction Remote Access (w/ demo)	Full
18/10/2004(Mon)	7:00-8:30pm	Lang Lab (Library)	Introduction	Open for registration
23/10/2004 (Sat)	2:00-4:30pm	Lang Lab (Library)	Introduction Remote Access (w/ demo)	Full

Registration is needed. Call 2768-6778 or e-mail your name, student ID, contact phone no./e-mail address, and date of the session to libwww@ouhk.edu.hk

Do watch out further announcements about more workshops coming up!

Resources Updates

Remark: If you are not using Campus PC, you
must have the proper remote access connection to the E-Lib set up BEFORE accessing to the electronic resources below and on the right. For details, please refer to the Remote Access Guide section in the E-Library homepage.

EBSCOhost adds comprehensive Industry Reports and SWOT Analysis in Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier has recently added thousands of reports on Industry Profiles, which cover market overview, value, volume, and segmentation; leading companies and market forecasts for a wide range of industries and SWOT Analysis for public companies.

To search for Industry Profiles for a particular industry in a specific region, go to Business Source Premier, key in the industry keyword(s) and select Document Type as "Industry Overview".

To furthur specify what you need, select "Industry Reports" in the search result (as the screen below), the relevant industry reports will be listed.

To search for the SWOT Analysis for public companies, type in SWOT Analysis and the name of the company and hit search, a list of relevant results will be displayed.

ProQuest adds Smart Search

The Smart Search displays suggested topics and publications related to the users' search terms at the top of the search result screen. It aims at helping users focus their searches and get more concrete result.

ABI/INFORM Complete, Accounting & Tax, and Criminal Justice Periodicals Index are on the ProQuest platform.

Service Alerts

Get your Library notices through the new OUHK email account

The University is to provide OUHK email accounts to all active students of face-to-face programmes (starting from 20 September 2004), and distance learning and selected LiPACE courses (starting from 1 October 2004). These students, if they are Library users, will receive Library notices as far as applicable through their new OUHK email account. For those who have registered with the email forwarding service, Library notices will NOT be sent to your personal email accounts once the new service is launched.

All inactive students (i.e. those who do not register for Oct semester 04) will receive Library Notices by post starting on 1 October.

The University will send out notification about the OUHK Email Account service to students registered for the new semester soon.

Please also watch out updates from the Library in September.

Reminder for Course Coordinators: Reserve Materials

New reserve materials together with reservation request forms should be submitted four weeks before the Semester begins so that there will allow sufficient time for processing.

Please contact Ms. Kathy Chau at extension 6781 or e-mail: mlchau@ouhk.edu.hk for more details.

Your netLibrary account is expiring by end of September

To re-activate the account,

Install and launch properly the remote access connection to the E-Library. Or, simply log in to an Internet workstation in Library or PC Lab to access the E-Library.
Access the netLibrary website as you usually do. Make sure the OUHK logo is there.
Log in with your existing netLibrary username and password at the upper right corner of the netLibrary website. Or, creat a new netLibrary account. Click here to read the details.

Featured Resources

Factiva

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, covers nearly 9,000 sources, including over 1,500 global newspapers, 3,000 trade journals and magazines, 30,000 company reports, and hundreds of newswires and media programmes from 118countries in 22 languages. For example, you may find popular titles in Factiva including South China Morning Post, Asia Wall Street Journal, Economist, Time, and Business Week.

To access Factiva, go to Electronic Library > Electronic Resources > Keyword Search > type in "Factiva". Or, click here to read the user guide.

ISI World of Knowledge interface upgraded

Other than a new look and feel, major changes include:

The previous Form Search and Concept Search were merged into one as Cross Search in World of Knowledge.
The Quick Search for searching Social Science Citation Index is available from the main page of Web of Science.
A new section "Analyze Results" located in the search result page provides result ranking by the selected field.

Click here to read our updated user guide.