2021 Library Publishing Directory

The University of Hong Kong

University Libraries

Learning and Research Services

Jesse Xiao, Data and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Phone: 852-2241-5841
Email: szxiao@hku.hk

Program Overview

The Libraries acquire printed and electronic HKU theses for PhD, MPhil, and SJD programmes. The printed theses are transferred and stored in The HKU Archives while the ETDs (Electronic Theses & Dissertations) are on open access and published in the Scholars Hub under the licensing of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License with the CrossRef DOI.

The Libraries provides a comprehensive repository (DataHub) for research data and other forms of scholarly outputs publishing. DataHub targets to storing, citing, sharing, and discovering research data and all scholarly outputs. It collects, preserves, and provides stable, long-term global open access to a wide range of research data and scholarly outputs created by HKU researchers and RPG students in the course of their research and teaching.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2012
  • Location: Hong Kong
  • Languages published: English; Chinese
  • Organization: services distributed across campus
  • Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff: 3
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: databases; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); monographs.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases 2 2
Datasets 21 21
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 2819 2819
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Use of the Richardson-Lucy Algorithm in Analyzing Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Data (thesis)
  • Hong Kong Retail Industry in 21st Century (thesis)
  • Educational Development in Post-War Hong Kong (thesis)
  • Odour Control and Management in Hong Kong Sewage Treatment Infrastructures (thesis)
  • The Rise and Decline of Cantopop (thesis)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • education
  • biomedical science
  • architecture
  • history
  • chemistry

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Best publications to refer to our program: Electronic theses and dissertations; digital repository of library collections

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Fedora
  • figshare
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • HathiTrust
  • LOCKSS
Service Vendors: Figshare; CrossRef

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We will focus on the data publishing and linking published datasets with other publication records.
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