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Designated research books for Research Projects

Faculty members may borrow designated research books procured under a publicly funded research project until the conclusion of the project, and they may extend the loan period beyond the project expiry date if necessary. Designated research books shall be returned to the Library’s collection and made available to the general public upon conclusion of the project or expiry of the loan.

NCHU Library: Open Access (OA) Journals

Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of academic resources on the Internet.nnYou can use a variety of tools to check whether a journal is open access or is actually a predatory journal before submitting your paper.nnThe Library provides information on publishing fee discounts for OA journals. Please read the relevant instructions if you are interested.

NCHU Press: Publication Regulations and Requests

Established as an agricultural school, National Chung Hsing University not only has contributed significantly to the development of Taiwan’s agriculture but also excels on multiple academic fronts. The University’s achievements in biological, agricultural resources, scientific, engineering, humanities, and social sciences research are hard to ignore. In 2012, the NCHU Library founded the NCHU Press, whose purpose is to encourage faculty members and students to share their outstanding teaching and research achievements with the world through academic publishing. The NCHU Press’ vision is to strive for excellence in scholarly publishing and the promotion of knowledge by releasing quality academic works, with the ultimate goal of becoming one of the world’s leading university presses.

Textbook Service

Textbook Service allows the NCHU faculty to submit textbook requests to the Library. It aims to work with instructors to make assigned textbooks available to students. Patrons can refer to the textbook lists through the Library’s website as well. To ensure that course resources are as accessible as possible, the designated textbooks can only be checked out for a short loan period. Print books can be borrowed for 14 days and multimedia items offer a 5-day loan. Renewals are not permitted.

Turnitin Originality Check System

Turnitin contains more than 99 billion webpages, 1.8 billion student papers, and 89 million scholarly articles.nnFeatures:nn*Compare faculty and student works, reports, and assignments to existing pieces of writing in its database.nn*Produce a similarity report with a similarity score percentage.nn* Help authors to verify the originality and quality of their writing before official publication.nn* Review whether any citations are missing.nnThis section includes:nnGraduate student school-leaving procedurennAccount applicationnnUser manual and handbooknnFAQsnnPoint of contact by college

Course Reserves

Professors may reserve reference materials for their courses. These may include books, periodicals, multimedia materials, journal articles, electronic resources, or self-made materials.Students can use the WebPAC’s “Course Reserves” function to look up and read materials for the current semester.To access course reserve materials, please present your student ID at the 1F Reference Information Desk or the 3F Multimedia Center and provide the name of the course and instructor.Please follow the usage guidelines so that more students are able to utilize course reserve materials.

Resources: The LibGuides Platform

To fully utilize the Library’s collections, we employ the LibGuides system to create catalogues tailored to individual departments and graduate institutes so as to meet their different teaching and research needs, develop and customize collection utilization guides, and facilitate timely access to resources by faculty members and students as they work on their academic writings and research projects.

NCHU Library Resources—ORCID

For researchers, it is always crucial to make sure that all their academic research work and outcomes are properly connected. ORCID is the key to solving authorship identification issues and ensuring that all of a researcher’s works are connected to themselves.

NCHU Library—NCHU Collection

As part of NCHU’s 100th Anniversary, the area in front of the 1F copy room was remodeled into the NCHU Collection, which showcases around 1,500 works by NCHU faculty members as a means of demonstrating the University’s academic influence and the efforts of university faculty to pursue the advancement of research and knowledge. The official opening ceremony of the “NCHU Collection” was held on November 28, 2019.