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This Repository captures, distributes and preserves HKUST's digital research products. Here you can find articles, working papers, preprints, technical reports and conference papers in various digital formats. Our content grows daily as new communities and collections are added to the Repository.
Repository content is organized around Communities which correspond to HKUST administrative entities such as schools, departments, labs and research centers. Within each community there can be an unlimited number of collections. Within each collection there can be an unlimited number of items.
Browse allows you to go through a list of items in some specified order:
Browse by Community/Collection takes you through the communities in alphabetical order and allows you to see the collections within each community.
Browse by Title allows you to move through an alphabical list of titles of all items in the Repository in alphabetical order.
Browse by Author allows you to move through an alphabetical list of all authors of items in the Repository.
Browse by Date allows you to move through a list of all items in the Repository in reverse chronological order.
About takes you to information about the DSpace project and its development.
To search all of the Repository, use the yellow search box at the top of the navigation bar on the left (or the search box in the middle of the home page)
To limit your search to a specific community or collection, navigate to that community or collection and use the search bar on that page.
The Repository uses the Jakarta Lucene search engine. Here are some search hints:
What is searched
The word(s) you enter in the search box will be searched against the title, author, keyword, abstract, series, sponsor and identifier fields of each item's record.What is not searched - Stop Words
The search engine ignores certain words that occur frequently in English, but do not add value to the search. These are:"a", "and" , "are" , "as" , "at" , "be" , "but" , "by" , "for" , "if" , "in" , "into",
"is" ,"it" ,"no" , "not" , "of" , "on" , "or" , "such", "the" , "to" , "was"
Truncation
Use an asterisk (*) after a word stem to get all hits having words starting with that root, for example:
will retrieve selects, selector, selectman, selecting.
Stemming
The search engine automatically expands words with common endings to include plurals, past tenses ...etc.Phrase Searching
To search using multiple words as a phrase, put quotation marks (") around the phrase.
Exact word match
Put a plus (+) sign before a word if it MUST appear in the search result. For instance, in the following search the word "training" is optional, but the word "dog" must be in the result.
Eliminate items with unwanted words
Put a minus (-) sign before a word if it should not appear in the search results. Alternatively, you can use NOT. This can limit your search to eliminate unwanted hits. For instance, in the search
or
you will get items containing the word "training", except those that also contain the word "cat".
Boolean searching
The following Boolean operators can be used to combine terms. Note that they must be CAPITALIZED !
AND - to limit searches to find items containing all words or phrases combined with this operator, e.g.
will retrieve all items that contain BOTH the words "cats" and "dogs".
OR - to enlarge searches to find items containing any of the words or phrases surrounding this operator
will retrieve all items that contain EITHER the words "cats" or "dogs".
NOT - to exclude items containing the word following this operator, e.g.
will retrieve all items that contain the word "training" EXCEPT those also containing the word "cat".
Parentheses can be used in the search query to group search terms into sets, and operators can then be applied to the whole set, e.g.
The advanced search page allows you to specify the fields you wish to search, and to combine these searches with the Boolean "and", "or" or "not".
You can restrict your search to a community by clicking on the arrow to the right of the top box. If you want your search to encompass the entire Repository, leave that box in the default position.
Then select the field to search in the left hand column and enter the word or phrase you are searching in the right hand column. You can select the Boolean operator to combine searches by clicking on the arrow to the right of the "AND" box.
Note: You must use the input boxes in order. If you leave the first one blank your search will not work.
Repository content is organized around Communities which correspond to HKUST administrative entities such as schools, departments, labs and research centers. Within each community there can be an unlimited number of collections. Within each collection there can be an unlimited number of items. This organization gives the Repository the flexibility to accomodate differing needs of communities by allowing them to
Each community has its own entry page displaying information, news and links reflecting the interests of that community, as well as a descriptive list of collections within the community.
Communities can contain an unlimited number of collections in the Repository. Collections can be organized around a topic, or by type of information (such as working papers or datasets) or by any other sorting method a community finds useful in organizing its digital items. Collections can have different policies and workflows.
Each Collection has its own entry page displaying information, news and links reflecting the interests of users of that collection.
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