Introduction

HKSYU Institutional Repository (IR) is a digital service that collects, preserves and disseminates research output of all academic, research and administrative staff of the Hong Kong Shue Yan University. It is an important knowledge management tool for capturing intellectual vitality of scholars in the University and facilitating scholarly communication.

Objectives

The HKSYU Institutional Repository (IR) is implemented for the preservation and dissemination of research and scholarly work. The key objectives are:

• To collect Research Outputs and record academic activities for scholars in the University in a single platform
• To maintain current Researcher profile to link to their publications, research interests, research Projects and Events
• To allow Researcher to view the metadata and abstracts of Research Outputs, search for the availability of printed copy in the Library and view full text in our subscribed databases or other external Open Access portals conveniently
• To provide an open access platform to share the University research works globally, enhance scholarly communication and promote visibility

What HKSYU Institutional Repository includes

Research Outputs

Research Outputs include the materials published by current or former HKSYU academic, research and administrative staff. The materials include journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, presentations, research reports, working papers, theses and others. Research Outputs are linked to researchers, journals, research projects and University hosted conference or events so that intricate relations can be explored and discovered from different research facets.

Researcher

All current full time academic staff profiles will be created in the Researcher’s page. It can be browsed by Department and Research Interests.

Departments and Research Centres

Department is the Main Affiliation of Researcher. You can select a Department to browse its Researchers, Publications, Projects and Events. Also Research Centres and Laboratory are included in this section.

Projects

The Projects funded by Research Grants Council and external research grants can be found here. It can be browsed alphabetically and sorted by Departments and Principle Investigator. The research reports of the Projects can be showed accordingly in the page.

Copyright Issues

Staff are welcome to provide a full text version of their Research Output. We will check with the publisher for copyright transfer agreement for self-archiving in our Institutional Repository.

Credits

HKSYU Institutional Repository is based on the open source project “DSpace-CRIS (Current Research Information System)” provided by CINECA, a project funded by the University of Hong Kong.

Contacts

If you would like to deposit your publications to IR, please contact us:

Ms. Cynthia Fong
ILL & Institutional Repository Section
Email: libcyn@hksyu.edu