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Resources for CAR Subjects

Your starting point in finding information and resources for Cluster Area Requirements (CAR) subjects

What Can You Learn From This Guide?

In this guide, you will learn:

  • Searching tips to find books and journal articles 
  • Where to go for various types of resources for different CAR subjects: recommended books, journal databases, news and statistics
  • How to cite resources you have read
  • Reference management tools to help cite and manage citations
  • Recommended resources to help with improving your academic writing

Why Library Resources

What's the point to use library resources if we can google everything in the world? Let's explore it from the video below:

Source: InfoLit for U – MOOC on information literacy offered by the libraries of all UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong

Library workshop for CAR subjects

Come to a Library workshop to learn when to use what information sources, ways to easily cite sources, and library resources for CAR subjects. The workshops for CAR subjects are offered in both Semesters I (Oct - Dec) and Semester II (Feb - May).

Details and registration here.