HKU Libraries Blog

Dear Staff and Students,  

Please find the webinar by Think. Check. Submit. in May 2025 below. 

United2Act webinar:  
How to recognise, avoid and prevent paper mills. 

Do you know about ‘paper mills’ in academic research? Paper mills can have profound negative impacts on you, the public’s trust in science and society as a whole.  

If you want to find out what they are, how they work and why they should matter to you, join this webinar ‘Recognise, avoid and prevent paper mills’. 

Date:14th May 2025 (Wednesday) 
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm (HKT) 

Find out more and register here: https://publicationethics.org/events/recognise-avoid-prevent-papermills  

For enquiries, please directly contact the respective organisation. 

Learning and Research Services 
HKU Libraries 

Disclaimers:  

The training session(s) or event(s) is/are organised by the corresponding organisation. Any enquiries should be directly addressed to the corresponding organisation respectively. 

Information collected by the organisation for training session(s) or event(s) is NOT subject to the Privacy Policy of the HKU Libraries.  

The HKU Libraries shall not be held responsible for any dispute, loss or damage which may arise as a result of using the information provided on this page. 

Dear Staff and Students,

HKU Libraries is excited to announce the launch of EndNote 2025. This latest version includes AI-powered features and productivity enhancements to enhance researchers’ research and writing process, helping them tackle time-consuming tasks and achieve their research goals more efficiently.

The New features available with EndNote 2025 include:

1. AI Key Takeaway –extract key insights and takeaways from individual papers
2. Find a Journal in Cite While You Write Plugin for Microsoft Word Online – use manuscript content to suggest journals
3. Cite from a PDF – insert a highlighted quote from a PDF and its corresponding citation into your document

Download EndNote 2025 now: https://lib.hku.hk/endnote/download.html

Furthermore, you can watch the EndNote 2025 webinar recording and join the upcoming webinar series in May and June on how to use EndNote 2025:

Topic: Mastering research with EndNote 2025: essentials to advanced
Date: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May 2025; 5, 12, 19 June 2025 (Thursday)
Venue: Online via Webex
Registration and more information:
https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/webappng/sites/clarivatesupport/webinar/webinarSeries/register/29ea659147a4440f8d95b5fb7f548853  

For enquiries on EndNote 2025, please Email-A-Librarian: https://lib.hku.hk/check_form/ask_a_librarian-form/ (To: Library Training).

Best regards,
Learning and Research Services
HKU Libraries

Dear Staff and Students,

HKU Libraries is excited to announce a trial for ScienceDirect AI from now until 21 May 2025. Developed by Elsevier, ScienceDirect AI is built into ScienceDirect that helps you transform the way of your research work more efficiently.

The key features of ScienceDirect AI include:

1. Ask ScienceDirect AI – search and summaries of full-text articles and book chapters
2. Reading Assistant – chat with a document in ScienceDirect
3. Compare Experiments – experiment summary table

Check here for more information: https://elsevier.shorthandstories.com/sciencedirect-ai/

Furthermore, you are invited to join the introductory session on how to use ScienceDirect AI:

Topic: Product introduction on ScienceDirect AI
Date: 28 April 2025 (Monday)
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Ms. Lisa Lin, Senior Account manager, Elsevier
Registration:
https://hku.zoom.us/j/94389260914?pwd=DET7YIpzx2N6bJmlEcMoeQrOkIOy3x.1

For enquiries or comments on ScienceDirect AI, please Email-A-Librarian: https://lib.hku.hk/check_form/ask_a_librarian-form/ (To: Library Training).

Best regards,
Learning and Research Services
HKU Libraries

Dear staff and students,

You are invited to join the online quiz co-organized with World Scientific Journals. The questions will focus on the e-resources of World Scientific Journals. This is an excellent opportunity for everyone to assess their knowledge and skills related to these e-resources. By completing a few questions, you may have a chance to win a prize!

Date: 22 April to 5 May 2025
Eligibility: All Current HKU Staff and Students
Prize: USD25 Amazon Gift Voucher*
(*10 winners selected from those who answered ALL questions correctly)
Quiz link: https://www.worldscientific.com/UnivofHongKong.Quiz

Please note that the winners will be selected by World Scientific Journals, and the final interpretation rights of the event belong to them.

We look forward to your participation in this online quiz!

Best regards,
Learning and Research Services
The University of Hong Kong Libraries

Asahi Shimbun will be performing the system maintenance on April 16 (Wednesday) from 13:00 to 14:00 (Hong Kong Time). During this period, the following service will be unavailable:

- Asahi Graph 1923-1956

Other services are available.

Dear Researchers,  

Glad to announce that the Libraries has recently signed transformative agreements with another publisher — ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers). 

During the agreement period, when publishing in the eligible journals with the following publishers, corresponding authors affiliated with HKU can publish your articles in open access at no cost for you! 

New from April 2025 

• ASME   

New from January 2025 

• ACS (Limited free APC credits) 
• Bioscientifica  
• DeGruyter (Selected journals only) 
• Elsevier (Limited free APC credits; Selected hybrid journals only) 
• Oxford University Press (Selected hybrid journals only) 
• Rockefeller University Press 
• The Royal Society 
• SPIE 

For agreement and application details, please check: https://libguides.lib.hku.hk/openaccess/ta  

If you are asked to pay for Article Processing Charges (APCs) when publishing in the eligible journals, please directly communicate with your editor and make sure he/she is informed of the agreement before making a payment. 

Details of other current transformative agreements such as Cambridge University Press, Springer hybrid journals, and Wiley are also available on the webpage. 

For enquiries, please Email-A-Librarian: https://lib.hku.hk/infoservices/email.html (To: Open Access).  

Best regards,  

Learning and Research Services  

HKU Libraries  

As informed by the database provider, a new regulation by the United States Government, Executive Order 14117, titled "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and U.S. Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern," will take effect on 8 April, 2025, aims to restrict access to sensitive data.

The database provider is required to suspend our access to data under ICPSR membership until further notice. However, data in the free collections on the ICPSR webpage that do not require membership will continue to be available.

Thank you for your understanding.