Collection and electronic resources
| User’s comments | Library’s Responses |
|---|---|
| I hope the library can buy Claude. I think scite is not useful for the students major in education. | While both Scite and Claude are AI tools, they serve distinct purposes. Scite exclusively utilizes data from credible academic sources and is widely adopted in many UGC-funded institutions across Hong Kong. It is specifically designed to aid researchers and students for their academic research by swiftly identifying the most relevant research literature, accompanied by a concise analysis of how these sources support or contradict specific research propositions. In contrast, Claude is a large language model (LLM) that excels in generating text, answering questions, and assisting with creative or general knowledge tasks. As a versatile conversational AI, it operates similarly to ChatGPT and Deepseek, both of which are already accessible to EdUHK staff and students through the OCIO at EdUHK ChatGPT (https://www.eduhk.hk/ocio/eduhk-chatgpt). |
| many recouces are not available | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| more | |
| More collections | |
| more soft copies of books | The Library currently collects over 2 million ebooks. We have also adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version. EdUHK colleagues and students are also welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. |
| Need more | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 个别需要更新或者引进新的书籍 | |
| 可以多引进些新书 | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to check our "New Materials" list at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/new-materials and submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. Please also note that the Library has adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version, unless the recommending academic staff specified to acquire print copies. Thus, most new books purchased in recent years will only be available in electronic format. |
| 可以擴充更多資源以便使用 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 增加館藏資源；發郵件詳細介紹如何使用學校資源 | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. Library circulars are posted and emailed to EdUHK staff and students from time to time to inform them of any new addition or changes to library resources, facilities and services. Meanwhile, users will also receive updates and highlights of library collection and services via Library Links (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/about/news/library-newsletters/), the Library's newsletter by email on monthly basis. Colleagues and students are also welcome to join our regular library workshops covering searching skills in different e-resources throughout the academic year. The Library’s workshop materials are also available on our webpage at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/teaching-learning-support/library-skills-workshops for users to study at their own pace. |
| 希望丰富一些 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 希望可以多一些资源 | |
| 希望有更多小众和本土的作家实体书；电子资料比较齐全，但有些link打不开，不知如何操作。 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . They are also welcome to approach our Information Counter or contact us at 29486653 / email libinfo@eduhk.hk whenever they encounter difficulties in searching for required resources. |
| 希望能借到更多資料 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . Colleagues and students are also welcome to use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/">https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. |
| 想更丰富 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 文獻多d | |
| 更多館藏書籍 | |
| 还可以继续丰富！ | |
| 希望2樓啲書可以新啲，而且，可能按年份放 or 出版社，少少亂🙈 | Users are welcome to approach our Information Counter or contact us at 29486653 / e-mail libinfo@eduhk.hk whenever they encounter difficulties in searching for required resources. If users have difficulty finding particular items from the bookshelves, they are also welcome to contact our counter staff for assistance or use our "EdU LibMap" mobile app (https://edulib.me/map) which provides realtime directional guidance to locate a specific library item. |
| Please buy more printed book, not e-book | For better accessibility, the Library has adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version, unless the recommending academic staff specified to acquire print copies. Thus, most new books purchased in recent years will only be available in electronic format. |
| 可以多引进一些内地期刊 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| Add more IT book or e-books More information about read e-book via e-book reader (e.g. Amazon Kindle) | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . Information about E-Reader Lending Services is available at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/e-resources/scribd-e-reader-lending-service |
| Get more types | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 兒童讀物可以再多啲書 | |
| 可以做一些更新，引進不同領域的書籍 | |
| 可以多更新一些文学作品 供学生借阅 | |
| 可以扩大范围 | |
| 可以收藏更多的中文類圖書資源 | |
| 可以适当上新一些简体的书籍 | |
| 图书馆二层的政治类的书籍，实在太过陈旧，只能看到2010年代以前的时政类书籍，近十几年都没有更新，不知道是不是因为迫于某种压力不可更新。这些书是我在内地看不到，想多了解的。 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . Please also note that the Library has adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version, unless the recommending academic staff specified to acquire print copies. Thus, most new books purchased in recent years will only be available in electronic format. |
| 希望可以有更多中文研究類的數據庫 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 希望圖書館可以提供更多休閒閱讀讀物，例如中國現當代文學作品，武俠小說，英文原著小說等 | |
| 希望多點兒童文學的書本，身邊很多幼教的同學想去借某些兒童繪本，發現學校裡的圖書館沒有。 | |
| 文学类 | |
| 文学类书籍较少 | |
| 2樓的exercise bk比較舊，希望可以多購買新書 | |
| continuous updating | |
| Need to be updated | |
| The book collection is quite old, and the books have become yellowish and difficult to borrow. I think users may struggle to read the material in its current form, and converting it into an e-version could improve accessibility and user experience. | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . Please also note that the Library has adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version, unless the recommending academic staff specified to acquire print copies. Thus, most new books purchased in recent years will only be available in electronic format. |
| 及时更新 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 待更新 | |
| 更新藏书版本 | |
| 需要及時更新 | |
| PsycINFO stopped displaying the Cited By statistics, which made me have to do a lot of revision on my standard ppts/instructions to psychology students about how to find relevant literature. I'm now advising them to use Semantic Scholar instead. It would be very nice if the library produced unique how to find references for different disciplines, updated each year, so that individual staff members don't need to do it / could simply ask the students to look at the library website for advice | We have worked with the vendor and the times-cited feature has been restored in PsycINFO. Users can find "Frequently Asked Questions" at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/contact/faq and various library guides at https://libguides.eduhk.hk/ for assistance in utilizing library resources. Different subject guides are also available at https://libguides.eduhk.hk/?b=s and colleagues are welcome to contact their departmental librarians (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/contact/departmental-librarians) to discuss their needs and how to enhance specific subject guides. Our Research and Learning Support librarians are also available to collaborate with instructors in delivering custom in-class presentations tailored to your course needs. |
| 1. 來自外部的電子學術期刊有時候難以開啟 2. 可掃描更多書本作電子藏書 | 1. Users are welcome to approach our Information Counter or contact us at 29486653 / e-mail libinfo@eduhk.hk whenever they encounter difficulties in searching for required resources. 2. We have adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version. It is against the law to scan and convert copyrighted materials to electronic format. |
| Some lack of access | EdUHK Colleagues and students are welcome to use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. |
| Some materials are not free and too expensive | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ and use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. We also encourage users to install a web browser extension called LibKey Nomad (https://libguides.eduhk.hk/remote-access/nomad">https://libguides.eduhk.hk/remote-access/nomad). If the user is trying to access a journal article directly from the publisher web site instead of a link provided by the Library website but the article is available through another library-subscribed database, LibKey Nomad will display a popup alert to provide an access link or instructions. |
| Some research paper are not available | |
| thank you! i would suggest purchasing more e-journals, some journals in the field of communication cannot be found; the access from email to scopes sometimes not successful unfortunately | |
| Too few collections Certain hyperlink of e-collections just can't work | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ and use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 希望可以擴展電子資源，很多文獻沒有訪問權利 | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ and use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. We also encourage users to install a web browser extension called LibKey Nomad (https://libguides.eduhk.hk/remote-access/nomad). If the user is trying to access a journal article directly from the publisher web site instead of a link provided by the Library website but the article is available through another library-subscribed database, LibKey Nomad will display a popup alert to provide an access link or instructions. |
| 有些文献不能下载 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 有些文章还是没办法下载，希望能在未来得到解决 | |
| 有些論文不能閱讀，希望可以開放 | |
| 有時需要權限 造成不便 | |
| 有的文献无下载方式 | |
| 资讯库会breakdown | |
| 进入知网的网速太慢 | Access to CNKI has generally been improved over the past year. We will keep monitoring its performance. |
| 电子资源中台湾硕博论文加值网的文章能否购买全文，目前有些论文看不到。 | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan (臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統) is a publicly accessible platform and is not part of our Library subscription. Users may register for a free account and download the full text for those theses and dissertations with permission granted by the authors. Unfortunately, the system does not provide any purchase option for items unavailable online. Please refer to the platform's FAQ at https://ndltd-ncl-edu-tw.ezproxy.eduhk.hk/r/faq. |
| Very disappointed as there are limited resources online. I have multiple times that I cannot search the ebooks which are course textbooks. I am not able to access them even I could found them in search results because of the limitation from the websites and I was frustrated with them. I hope that there would be improvement as ebooks are convenient for students to access to resources remotely. | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 不少書籍沒有電子版本，教大出版的期刊在教大網站上也未必找到。 | The Library currently collects over 2 million ebooks. We have also adopted an e-priority policy since 2013. If a book is available in electronic format, e-book will be purchased instead of the print version. EdUHK colleagues and students are also welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. |
| 應增購電子書 | |
| 有些比較舊的書沒有電子版，有時急着要看的時候要回學校借閱，比較麻煩 | EdUHK colleagues and students are also welcome to submit recommendations of specific e-book titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. On the other hand, if publishers do not offer e-versions of their older publications, the Library cannot digitise these old books by ourselves as it will violate copyright laws. |
| 部分馆藏没有电子版，借不到纸质版的情况下很难办 | EdUHK colleagues and students are also welcome to submit recommendations of specific e-book titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. On the other hand, if publishers do not offer e-versions of their older publications, the Library cannot digitise these old books by ourselves as it will violate copyright laws. |
| Available research databases for study and academic research is too limited for searching, especially the full-text reading of the published papers. | The Library currently collects/subscribes to over 300 online databases, 137,000 e-journals and 2 million e-books on different disciplines. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. Colleagues and students are also welcome to use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. |
| not enough journals subscribed; features offered by ebook databases not complete enough | |
| Regularly add new resources. | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 圖書館館藏書籍比較舊，希望能多購買新出版的實體兒童故事書及練習 有部份online database在家或學校未能使用，但向圖書館反映不久後便能使用。希望 貴館負責職員可加強檢查及測試database是否正常運作 |
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| 大陆的文献库可以再多一些 | |
| 希望上架过期的电子资源和材料 | EdUHK Colleagues and students are welcome to use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. |
| 希望增多可使用的电子资源和电子资源库，因为有时因课程需要而在图书馆找寻相关的电子文献却找不到 | The Library currently collects/subscribes to over 300 online databases, 137,000 e-journals and 2 million e-books on different disciplines. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/. Colleagues and students are also welcome to use our Document Delivery Service at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/ill/ to request for soft copies of journal articles or book chapters not available in the Library from our partner libraries, delivery of which usually will only take 2 to 3 working days. |
| 希望多點 線上文獻 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 希望有更多更豐富電子資源 | |
| 指定參考書數量增加或變成電子書 | For high-demand items such as course reading materials, we are already purchasing up to 10 copies of required textbooks and 6 copies of recommended readings for EdUHK courses, depending on their class size. In addition, we have adopted an e-priority policy under which e-books will be purchased whenever available. |
| 电子资源下载希望更方便一些 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 电子资源可以更加丰富 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 电子资源有的时候显示有，但是点进去具体某一期却又找不到。 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 經常出現數據庫無法使用 館藏無法開放 | |
| 電子數據庫不完善，缺少國內有些相關的數據庫 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 電子書經常現實已下架 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 非常不足。scite :沒有安排指導课! 教授也不懂! | Four sessions of workshop on scite had been conducted in 2024/25. Workshop slides and video recording could be found at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/teaching-learning-support/library-skills-workshops Users may also approach the Information Counter or contact us at 29486653 / email libinfo@eduhk.hk if they need any assistance. |
| Purchase access to more Q1 journals in arts and humanities | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| Could New York Times please be added to the e-newspapers collection? | We have started subscription of New York Times (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/databases/nyt) in mid March 2025 and made it available under iSearch, the e-newspaper and Database Library web pages. In addition, two more newspapers , Chronicle of Higher Education (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/databases/chronicle-higher-education) and Times Higher Education (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/databases/times-higher-education), are also available online. |
| 舊報紙明明夠位打平放，但摺埋哂，要拎黎睇好唔方便。 | Locating a specific issue within a towering stack of 30 newspapers can be a daunting task. Folding the newspapers and organizing them into multiple columns with dates marked at the corner will better serve the needs of most users, making it easier to find the desired issue quickly and efficiently. |
| Good. Need to enhance library facilities like could be publish articles in open access journal and these policies should be considered | As at May 2025, Library has signed Transformative Agreements with 9 publishers (Association for Computing Machinery, Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Elsevier, IEEE, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature and Wiley) providing open access publishing opportunities for EdUHK researchers. Please check https://libguides.eduhk.hk/openaccess and https://libguides.eduhk.hk/TransformativeAgreement for further information or contact us directly for assistance if needed. |
| Overall, the resources are good. But there are some education related resources were missing and I often have to recommend the library to buy. | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 丰富专业科目常用实体图书数量，及时根据教职人员建议更新馆藏图书 | |
| 凡是在圖書館搜索資料時，遇到本校教授的作品都無法查看，感到無法理解，並覺得非常可惜 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| Sometimes I need to collect the books in other campus, which is very inconvenient. | We encourage users to utilize our inter-campus delivery service to request loanable materials housed in Mong Man Wai Library to be sent to the Tseung Kwan O Study Centre Library for borrowing, or vice versa. Please check https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/access-borrowing/inter-campus-delivery for further information or contact us for assistance if needed. |
| As a professoriate staff, I research about publication performance. For this, I have been using Scival and Incites a lot. However, I have no access to them anymore. I learned that EDUHK is already subscribed to Scival. Can that be made accessible to research staff as well? I am a bit worried about my future publications. | SciVal subscription and access is managed by the VP(RD)’s Office. Office of Institutional Data and Research(OIDR) has been developing and planning to launch a dashboard in summer this year for EdUHK staff to review their metrics from SciVal and Scopus. |
| 仍有一些资源搜不到，除此之外都很满意 | Comments noted. EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to submit recommendations of specific titles at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/recommend/ . |
| 更容易找到資料 | If users encounter problems on accessing our online resources, please contact us at 29486653 or email libinfo@eduhk.hk and provide additional details for our further investigation. |
| 有點文獻找不到 | |
| 输入中文找到的文献比较少，输入英语找的比较多，但是，可能有些是不太相关的。例如查找：挪威特殊教育政策。 | Since some database vendors such as 中國知網 (CNKI) do not make their indexes available to 3rd party vendors, sometimes the iSearch results can only link to the database level and users may need to search again. Users may consider to search major Chinese databases such as CNKI (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/databases/china-knowledge-resource-integrated-database-cnki) and 華藝線上圖書館 (Airiti Library) (https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/databases/cetd-2) directly for Chinese resources and contact us for assistance if needed. |
| 書籍位置定位的範圍太大了（而且還會有幾個不同的位置），經常找不到書，常常線上查詢書籍很快完成，實際尋找卻要花費很長時間😮💨不過從其他圖書館 request 書籍好方便，這個服務櫃好喜歡 | Users are encouraged to utilize our EdU LibMap mobile application (https://edulib.me/map) to help locate shelf positions. They may also contact counter staff directly for assistance if they encounter any difficulty locating an item. |
| Tell students how to borrow | Users are encouraged to contact counter staff directly for assistance as necessary. We have also prepared various guides and videos to help users get familiar with our services and facilities. Please check: https://libguides.eduhk.hk/newstudents/ https://libguides.eduhk.hk/howto/ https://libguides.eduhk.hk/libvideo |
| 丰富些，出点教程教我们使用 | EdUHK colleagues and students are welcome to join our regular library workshops covering searching skills in different e-resources throughout the academic year. The Library’s workshop materials are also available on our webpage at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/teaching-learning-support/library-skills-workshops for users to study at their own pace. |
| 很实用！希望教如何检索的workshop可以重复观看。 | Workshop material and recordings of selected workshops can be reviewed at https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/teaching-learning-support/library-skills-workshops |
