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Author: Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian, Australian National University

Introduction

Academic libraries are fundamental supporters of research activities in their institutions. The digital environment has opened up the collections and services so that they sit within reach in every lab and researchers’ desktop as a part of the research toolkit that supports research in every discipline. The extensive connection with researchers has provided the opportunity to engage with this community to implement many new services to meet their needs.

At the Australian National University, a member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, the Dean of Science commented some years ago that he visited the digital library every day, relying more than ever on the full range of library services. For those in the humanities and social sciences the library is perceived as their laboratory, the research infrastructure on which their work depends. Professor Frank Bongiorno recently stated, “For historians, libraries and archives are the laboratory” (Bongiorno, 2022). This provides an environment where the impact of developments in research support by libraries has a significant benefit to the academic community within their institution.

Over the past decades, academic library services have evolved significantly, in particular with the revolution to a digital or e-research environment. A visit to an academic library website will reveal a wealth of services and products supporting research – from special collections to tailored support services.

Research ethics is an area that has benefited from the new library services that have been created to enhance research activity. Together with established services that support research more generally, services have been extended to provide strong support for compliance with, and capabilities to deal with, research ethics matters.

Applying the lens of research ethics to library activities provides the opportunity to reveal an important value from modern academic libraries. The work of the library in this area is vital infrastructure for successful research within institutions.

Research ethics and integrity

The study of ethics reaches back to the Greeks. Aristotle (Aristotle 1999, Aristotle 2002) proposed a philosophy of ethics that was a new and separate area of discourse. In summary, the approach was one that proposed that “moral virtue is the only practical road to effective action” (Sachs, n.d.). National and international research ethics standards have evolved dramatically since World War 2. The Nuremberg Code, established in 1948, is recognised as the first formal codification (Weindling, 2001). It stated that “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential”. For information professionals this codification represented new standards and the requirement for documentation to record processes, consents and approvals as an integral part of the research ecosystem.

Research ethics is now required for all human and animal studies, with extensive requirements from funders, governments and institutions. The principles developed to underpin the approaches reflect moral principles that are continually reviewed and tested. They are designed to ensure high ethical norms are met. The norms “promote the aims of research, such as knowledge, truth, and avoidance of error” (Resnik, 2020). Ensuring integrity through research ethics is achieved through a range of institutional services, including that provided by libraries.

Dimensions of library support for research ethics

Research and an analysis of the field of research ethics has developed a number of essential principles. These relate to the practices that are required for compliance and values that are relevant to the nature of the support services required for successful research.

Unpacking the major principles and mapping them to work of academic libraries reveals a wealth of effective and well used activities that are fundamental to ensuring researchers can be confident they are able to comply with research ethics. A well-established set of principles (Shamoo and Resnik 2015) includes the following:

Strive for honesty in all scientific communications. Honestly report data, results, methods and procedures, and publication status. Do not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent data. Do not deceive colleagues, research sponsors, or the public.

Keep your promises and agreements; act with sincerity; strive for consistency of thought and action.

Share data, results, ideas, tools, resources. Be open to criticism and new ideas.

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Analysing the range of academic library services against these principles provide an insight into the extent of library activities that support research ethics. A summary of the mapping (Figure 1) summarises collection, reference and research services that are all components of holistic support from the library for research ethics.

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Figure 1. Mapping of library services to research ethics principles

The investment of academic libraries in collections and services to support research have had a significant impact on building the capacity of our institutions to support research ethics. The key strategic initiatives that have created great support in this area include:

  • Digital collections that specifically support research ethics with a wide range of text books, journals and case studies including guides (such as lib guides) and researcher training to facilitate awareness and use of this material;
  • Institutional repositories that provide open access to scholarly works including theses, preprints, OA copies of journal articles, non-traditional research outputs and other original research outputs. The most recent figures from Australian and New Zealand universities (Council of Australian University Librarians, 2021) reveal extraordinary strengths in this area. In 2020 (the most recent figures available), there were 1,650,867 resources available through Australian academic repositories and 135,712 through repositories in New Zealand universities. The impact of these in making research open and transparent is extraordinary. The 2020 figures reveal

Downloads from academic institutional repositories 2020 (Council of Australian University Librarians, 2021)

The repositories enable researchers to both make their work openly accessible and access publications from others to increase knowledge of methods and research findings.

  • Institutional data support services. Academic libraries now offer a wide range of data support services. These include research data management training, data storage and management of data repositories (such as the Australian National University Data Commons Service). In Australia, a significant program to develop the capabilities of library staff in data management has been delivered by the Australian Research Data Commons and its predecessor, the Australian National Data Services, a federally funded program (Australian Research Data Commons, 2022b). The University of Queensland Library guide on research data exemplifies the emphasis on clear information on data ethics (University of Queensland Library, 2022)

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Figure 2. University of Queensland Library Research data guide.

  • Specialised reference services have developed that support research with a strong component of research ethics. New courses include systematic reviews, publishing and publishing ethics, ethical writing, using tools such as Endnote and discipline based standards.
  • Libraries provide specialist support on copyright and intellectual property. Most universities have a copyright specialist embedded in the library delivering training for researchers, answering enquiries and advising the institution of copyright issues.

Academic libraries are offering a wide range of activities that are vital to supporting researcher’s knowledge of, and capabilities, in relation to research ethics. The evolution in services and products, such as repositories and knowledge of publishing is of benefit to researchers in all disciplines. The evolution of national programs to support greater capabilities of library staff has been an important enabler of these developments.

The digital revolution has enabled greater and more effective outreach to researchers to embed these services across academic institutions. The library services have been vital elements in a partnership to address increasingly complex funder, government and institutional requirements for research. A recent study highlighted the importance of support in these areas (Jackson, 2018). The complexities identified to collect, transport, and store data in compliance with ethical requirements and managing data across the whole data lifecycle are well supported by the new library services.

There is a need to continue to develop the capabilities of librarians to be able to effectively support researchers with emerging issues, such as data management policy, privacy and security. Participation in national programs such as the Institutional underpinnings program for data (Australian Research Data Commons, 2022a) is an important element in this landscape. Over the next decade the evolution of services will provide an exciting area for the academic library community.

Roxanne Missingham , Australian National University

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Aristotle. (1999).  Metaphysics , Joe Sachs (trans.). Santa Fe, NM, Green Lion Press

Aristotle. (2002).   Nicomachean Ethics , Joe Sachs (trans.). Newbury, MA, Focus Philosophical Library, Pullins Press

Australian National University. (2022).   Data Commons. Canberra, ANU. https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/

Australian Research Data Commons. (2022a). Institutional Underpinnings. ARDC. https://ardc.edu.au/collaborations/strategic-activities/national-data-assets/institutional-underpinnings/

Australian Research Data Commons. (2022b). Resources for librarians. Canberra, ARDC. https://ardc.edu.au/resource_audience/librarians/

Bongiorno, Frank. (2022). The Humanities Laboratory. Canberra, The Australian Academy of the Humanities. https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/the-humanities-laboratory/

Council of Australian University Librarian. (2021) Data file for CAUL statistics 2020. Canberra, CAUL. https://www.caul.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/stats/2020_caul_statistics.xlsx

Jackson, Brian . (2018) The Changing Research Data Landscape and the Experiences of Ethics Review Board Chairs: Implications for Library Practice and Partnerships. The Journal of Academic Librarianship , 44 (5), p. 603-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.07.001

Resnik, David B. (2020). What is ethics in research and why is it important. Washington, D.C., National Institute of Environmental Health Science. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/index.cfm

Sachs, Joe. (n.d.). Aristotle: Ethics. Internet Encyclopaedia of philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-ethics/

Shamoo, Adil E. and Resnik, David B. (2015). Responsible Conduct of Research. 3rd ed. Oxford,  Oxford University Press.

University of Queensland. Library (2022) Manage research data. St Lucia, UQ Library. https://web.library.uq.edu.au/library-services/services-researchers/manage-research-data

Weindling, Paul. (2001). “The Origins of Informed Consent: The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremberg Code”. Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 75 (1): 37–71

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ISSN : 2398-6247

Article publication date: 31 October 2022

Issue publication date: 7 April 2023

The purpose of this paper was to systematically collect and review all studies which have been conducted on research data services in libraries across the globe.

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Six world-renowned scholarly databases were searched and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines were used for the identification and selection of eligible studies. The studies were then assessed using a well-renowned framework for the quality assessment of research studies.

The results revealed that the libraries were engaged in providing different types of research data services such as identification, acquisition, management and preservation of research data. They also arranged training programs, supported the publishing and sharing of data and dealt with the licensing and copyright issues related to data.

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The results of this study would be helpful for researchers and organizations, especially those engaged in educational activities, in understanding the current scenario of research data services in the world libraries. Furthermore, the findings offer valuable insights to library professionals regarding the types of research support services available globally. This would enable them to play an integral role in planning, designing and implementing such services in their libraries.

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To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first of its kind that systematically collects and reviews the literature on research data services in libraries worldwide.

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Safdar, M. , Rehman, S.U. , Arif, M. and Ashiq, M. (2023), "Research data services in libraries: a systematic literature review", Information Discovery and Delivery , Vol. 51 No. 2, pp. 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-04-2021-0044

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Kent State University Libraries provides research support services for university investigators throughout the research lifecycle. We aim to support both large and small research projects and investigators of all types (students, faculty, and staff). This site is designed to pull together a number of those resources and provides investigators with access to experts in University Libraries as well as Research & Economic Development and the Division of Information Technology. Choose the topic below for further information.

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Research identity support, funding your research, proposals, & grant management, research computing, statistical consulting software support & analysis, patents & commercialization, copyright & publication support.

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ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. (adopted from  ORCiD website )

If you have any questions or need assistance with ORCiD contact us at orcid [at] kent.edu (subject: ORCiD%20Help)

Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae ( SciENcv ) is a researcher profile system that helps researchers assemble the professional information needed for participation in federally funded research including the NIH and NSF. SciENcv gathers and compiles information on expertise, employment, education, and professional accomplishments. Researchers can use SciENcv to create and maintain biosketches that are submitted with grant applications and annual reports. SciENcv allows researchers to describe and highlight their scientific contributions in their own words.

Visit our guide to ORCiD and SciENcv for more information and instructions on creating accounts with these research identity support tools.

University Libraries has partnered with Research & Economic Development (R&ED)  to provide access to the  Pivot Funding Opportunities Database . Pivot contains records representing almost $70 billion in funding. Search for funding opportunities and save those searches for future use.

The Office of Sponsored Programs will also assist with the proposal process including guidelines and the submission process using Kuali . 

Finally, once awarded, R&ED will assist with award management , guidance on activity reporting , and research compliance . 

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From facsimiles to real and rare, FY 2023 saw notable acquisitions made by Art & Architecture Librarian K. Sarah Ostrach . Studying the materials and construction of ‘the real thing’ is an essential opportunity for those building a creative practice, but also for literature or history students looking to connect to methods and materials. Facsimiles, or highly accurate reproductions, are likewise essential where the object itself is unavailable, recreating as truthfully as possible the physical experience of interacting with a given object.  

A priority for Brown Fine Arts FY23 collection development was artist’s books to inform existing programs in the Department of Art and a growing interest in book arts among students, faculty, and staff. Acquisitions came in a variety of shapes and sizes, from a small, handsewn volume of 20 letterpress-printed zines by artist Karen Switzer, Ker-bloom! Volume 5 issues 85-105 , to four oversize books by painter and printer Christopher Wool . Along with the purchase of these four volumes, Wool also donated five other books to create a robust study collection for Rice’s impressive painting and printing programs. Switzer’s zines are a timely acquisition as the Woodson Research Center acquires a variety of printing presses and more programs are offered to explore printing history and techniques.  

Connecting the past to the present in the lineage of artist’s books is nonprofit publisher Primary Information . Per the nonprofit’s About page, “Primary Information facilitates intergenerational dialogue through the simultaneous publication of new and archival books, providing a new audience for out-of-print works and historical context for contemporary artists.” Rice University is now one of a handful of North American institutions to have the complete back catalog of new and reprinted, archival artist’s books. As an academic library also serving the public, it is exciting that the Brown Fine Arts Library and Fondren can provide this important art research resource to our campus community and the public.  

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Italian and English Collector Editions of La Divina Commedia : The New Manuscript by artist George Cochrane. After studying the history of illustration of The Divine Comedy , by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century, Cochrane handwrote (in Italian) and illustrated a new manuscript with a variety of styles, from illuminated manuscripts to anime. His handwriting was then scanned and used to create a highly variable font to construct the English edition. These two books are phenomenal resources for students of literature, graphic and book design, and illustration.  

A huge–literally–boon to the collection are the array of artist’s editions of comic book art. These books are massive facsimiles reproducing comic illustrations at full size, documenting the pre-publication and pre-censorship artistic process. Prince Valiant , Batman , Judge Dredd , Watchmen , Peanuts , Alien , and more –all full-size. These volumes are exciting resources to complement and support recent acquisitions of original comic strips and comic books by the Woodson Research Center and the programing of the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop .  

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Fondren Library shifted from print to e-preferred book program via De Gruyter's University Press Library for the following core publishers: Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Fordham University Press, Harvard University Press, NYU Press, Penn State University Press, Princeton University Press, Rutgers University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Hawai'i Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Texas Press, University of Toronto Press, and Yale University Press. This program will allow Fondren Library to acquire these publishers' entire annual ebook frontlists at a significant discount to title-by-title purchasing of ebooks. For the near future, both print and ebook formats will be purchased for Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Yale University Press. Along with this switch, Fondren Library did a print holdings matching program with the aforementioned publishers to provide electronic back access to over 37,446 titles for books Fondren Library owns in print.  

Sage Impact Offer  

Fondren Library made a significant purchase from SAGE Publications (Impact Offer) to purchase Sage Data (formerly known as Data Planet), over 5,880 Sage books, over 1,000 journals including backfiles, Sage Campus, Sage Research Methods, Sage Business, Sage Skills, Sage Video, CQ Press, and more. This purchase provided a deep discount and ongoing discounts for new Sage Publications. The materials acquired will boost Fondren Library's resources supporting the social sciences and other disciplines. The library will also make these resources available to Rice alumni via the Rice Alumni Portal.   

The Business Information Center

  • The Business Information Center (BIC) experiences its first full year with Director Nicolas Castellanos leading the team  
  • Nicolas was elected to the 50-member group, the Academic Business Library Directors during Academic Year (AY) 2022-2023  
  • Rice University was selected to partner with other university business schools to serve on the planning committee for Federal Reserve Bank’s Annual Conference --  Beyond the Numbers 2023 , in St. Louis – November 2023. Anna Xiong and Nik Sun were selected to present their research "How Government Fiscal Relief Affected Employment in the United States During the 2020 Recession”  
  • The BIC worked with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to fulfill gaps in AICPA collection’s library. Rice University identified collections at the BIC that we were able to donate to the AICPA to complete serial collections. The BIC donated items that were duplicates for the Rice University community. The BIC team worked with AICPA Research and Instruction Librarian, Dr. Royce Kurtz.  
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  • Sarah Clarke was hired in September 2022 to serve as the Library Associate at the BIC.  
  • There was a reorganization of staff in AY 2022-2023 and the BIC earned a new leader, New Chief Business Officer Christian Rafidi  
  • October 2022 – Rice Gives Back had the BIC staff volunteer for the day to clean-up trash from the Hermann Park Conservatory  
  • January 2023 – Rice Business Outreach to High School programs  
  • March 2023 – Rice Business Give Back had the BIC staff participate in creative arts at the Periwinkle Foundation  
  • Spring 2023 – the BIC presents at Rice Business Book Club “ Shoedog ,” by Phil Knight  
  • AY 2022-2023 –The BIC participated in 21-day Equity Challenge, by everyday Inclusion Program at Rice Business  
  • May 2023 – Presented the BIC facility and services at the ABLD Conference in Chicago at Northwestern University  
  • May 2023 – worked with collection development funds to acquire  Financial Times  direct account access for the Rice University community  

Overleaf is a collaborative cloud- based LaTeX tool which makes writing, editing and publishing scientific papers much easier than other editors available. Fondren Library started a subscription in June 2022.  All Rice University students, faculty and staff are provided access to a free Overleaf Pro account. From July 2022 to June 30 2023. Classes are offered and a support research guide is available.   

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Researching the White Paper:

The process of researching and composing a white paper shares some similarities with the kind of research and writing one does for a high school or college research paper. What’s important for writers of white papers to grasp, however, is how much this genre differs from a research paper.  First, the author of a white paper already recognizes that there is a problem to be solved, a decision to be made, and the job of the author is to provide readers with substantive information to help them make some kind of decision--which may include a decision to do more research because major gaps remain. 

Thus, a white paper author would not “brainstorm” a topic. Instead, the white paper author would get busy figuring out how the problem is defined by those who are experiencing it as a problem. Typically that research begins in popular culture--social media, surveys, interviews, newspapers. Once the author has a handle on how the problem is being defined and experienced, its history and its impact, what people in the trenches believe might be the best or worst ways of addressing it, the author then will turn to academic scholarship as well as “grey” literature (more about that later).  Unlike a school research paper, the author does not set out to argue for or against a particular position, and then devote the majority of effort to finding sources to support the selected position.  Instead, the author sets out in good faith to do as much fact-finding as possible, and thus research is likely to present multiple, conflicting, and overlapping perspectives. When people research out of a genuine desire to understand and solve a problem, they listen to every source that may offer helpful information. They will thus have to do much more analysis, synthesis, and sorting of that information, which will often not fall neatly into a “pro” or “con” camp:  Solution A may, for example, solve one part of the problem but exacerbate another part of the problem. Solution C may sound like what everyone wants, but what if it’s built on a set of data that have been criticized by another reliable source?  And so it goes. 

For example, if you are trying to write a white paper on the opioid crisis, you may focus on the value of  providing free, sterilized needles--which do indeed reduce disease, and also provide an opportunity for the health care provider distributing them to offer addiction treatment to the user. However, the free needles are sometimes discarded on the ground, posing a danger to others; or they may be shared; or they may encourage more drug usage. All of those things can be true at once; a reader will want to know about all of these considerations in order to make an informed decision. That is the challenging job of the white paper author.     
 The research you do for your white paper will require that you identify a specific problem, seek popular culture sources to help define the problem, its history, its significance and impact for people affected by it.  You will then delve into academic and grey literature to learn about the way scholars and others with professional expertise answer these same questions. In this way, you will create creating a layered, complex portrait that provides readers with a substantive exploration useful for deliberating and decision-making. You will also likely need to find or create images, including tables, figures, illustrations or photographs, and you will document all of your sources. 

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Welcome to your course Libguide, intended to support your research for  Commemoration, Crisis, and Revolution in the City - ARC 313 / AMS 306 / URB 311 / HIS 308. 

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Recruitment of volunteers will be competitive. A maximum of 450 children aged 12 to 17 years inclusive will be screened in the study, of which it is planned to include and randomize 300 children who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study and do not have non-inclusion criteria, data on which will be used for subsequent safety and immunogenicity analysis.

Group 1 - 150 volunteers who will be vaccinated with the Nobivac vaccine twice with an interval of 21 days intramuscularly.

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SARS-CoV-2 infection

  • A case of established COVID-19 disease confirmed by PCR and/or ELISA in the last 6 months.
  • History of contacts with confirmed or suspected cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection within 14 days prior to vaccination.
  • Positive IgM or IgG to SARS-CoV-2 detected on Screening.
  • Positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 at Screening / before vaccination.

Diseases or medical conditions

  • Serious post-vaccination reaction (temperature above 40 C, hyperemia or edema more than 8 cm in diameter) or complication (collapse or shock-like condition that developed within 48 hours after vaccination; convulsions, accompanied or not accompanied by a feverish state) to any previous vaccination.
  • Burdened allergic history (anaphylactic shock, Quincke's edema, polymorphic exudative eczema, serum sickness in the anamnesis, hypersensitivity or allergic reactions to the introduction of any vaccines in the anamnesis, known allergic reactions to vaccine components, etc.).
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome (acute polyradiculitis) in the anamnesis.
  • The axillary temperature at the time of vaccination is more than 37.0 ° C.
  • Positive blood test for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B/C.
  • Acute infectious diseases (recovery earl

Exclusion Criteria:

- • Withdrawal of Informed consent by a volunteer and/or a parent of a volunteer;

  • The volunteer was included in violation of the inclusion/non-inclusion criteria of the Protocol;
  • Availability of inclusion/non-inclusion criteria before vaccination;
  • Any condition of a volunteer that requires, in the reasoned opinion of a medical researcher, the withdrawal of a volunteer from the study;
  • The established fact of pregnancy before the second vaccination;
  • Taking unauthorized medications (see section 6.2);
  • The volunteer's incompetence with the study procedures;
  • The volunteer refuses to cooperate or is undisciplined (for example, failure to attend a scheduled visit without warning the researcher and/or loss of communication with the volunteer), or dropped out of observation;
  • For administrative reasons (termination of the study by the Sponsor or regulatory authorities), as well as in case of gross violations of the protocol that may affect the results of the study.
  • For Patients and Families
  • For Researchers
  • For Study Record Managers
  • Customer Support
  • Accessibility
  • Viewers and Players
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • HHS Vulnerability Disclosure
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

PolyU HK

Rapido – Enhancement of HKALL and Interlibrary Loan Services

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PolyU Library

February 16, 2024

Starting from 30 January 2024, PolyU students and staff can submit Interlibrary Loan requests via Library’s discovery tool ( OneSearch ) to request for books, book chapters, and articles not held in the Library collections from other UGC-funded university libraries in Hong Kong, or our partner libraries overseas (for eligible users). The update of the service enhances user experience by enabling users to submit requests directly via OneSearch without logon to a separate system; to track the status of the requests; to download the requested articles or book chapters, and to submit renewal requests directly from myRecord . To know more about the service, please refer to this  guide .

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