Mind Mapping (00:02:24)
This video shows you how mind mapping helps you turn a broad topic into a good research question and how it can help organize vague ideas and connections graphically. It uses the example of music to demonstrate how to brainstorm related words and ideas, map them out, and form questions based on the connections.

Paraphrase Game
A game to test your understanding on paraphrasing a passage.

PowerSearch with Filtering! (00:05:59)
This video provides an introduction to PowerSearch. To start a search, you can enter keywords. Using double quotes around a phrase can help narrow down the results. You can limit your search to newspaper articles, articles (magazines and journal articles), book chapters, and more. Filters can be applied to further refine the search, including limiting by title, publication, and publication date. The search results display full-text availability, and you can also limit the results by subject to explore different aspects. Clicking on a specific article will take you to the full text, which may require authentication if accessed off-campus.

PowerSearch: Your one stop info search (00:00:48)
PowerSearch is convenient, it\'s a one-stop tool for searching and finding the library\'s books, videos, and articles. You will find both online and physical formats.

Search Smart: Combine Keywords Using Parentheses (00:01:13)
This video shows you how to use parentheses to combine multiple keywords to be searched. It explains how to combine keywords to create a set and how to use this technique in various databases such as Scopus and Academic Search Premier.

Search Smart: Expand Your Keywords (00:01:12)
This video shows you how to think of and use alternative terms and keywords to form a search query. It uses the example of searching for information on \"oranges\" and \"design and engineering of tall buildings\" to demonstrate how to use synonyms, different aspects of the concept, variant endings, and abbreviations to expand keywords.

Search Smart: Use Boolean Operators (00:00:37)
This video provides an overview of how to use Boolean operators when conducting a search to narrow down or broaden the results. It explains the three Boolean operators: AND, OR, and NOT, and demonstrates how to use them to connect keywords in a search.

Search Smart: Use Keywords Not Sentences (00:01:28)
This video provides tips on how to use keywords instead of sentences or natural language when conducting a search to improve search results. It explains how to break down a topic by removing unimportant words like basic verbs, articles, and vague descriptive words. It also provides exercises to help viewers practice identifying important keywords.

Search Smart: Use Phrase Search (00:01:07)
This video explains how phrase searching can help you narrow a search and retrieve more precise results. It explains how to use double quotes to search for two or more words as a phrase in most databases and search engines. 0:00 - Introduction 0:13 - Using double quotes to search for two or more words as a phrase 0:21 - Examples of how phrase searching works with and without double quotes Follow us on social media for more tips and tricks: Instagram: libraryathkust https://www.instagram.com/libraryathkust/ Facebook: HKUST Library https://www.facebook.com/hkust.library/about Ask a Librarian: Email: lbref@ust.hk Whatsapp: 9701-1055 Website: https://library.hkust.edu.hk/