Wind Remote Access is Back!

Thank you for all your patience. With IT’s assistance and after several rounds of testing, we are glad to inform you that Wind remote access is now available through NYU Shanghai’s Virtual Computer Lab at the New Bund Campus!

How to Apply

To apply for remote access, please fill out an application first.

Important Note

You should use Wind ONLY for the purpose of course assignments, Capstone Project or scholarly research. 

Using Wind for commercial purposes is prohibited. You can never share full or substantial portions of articles, profiles, reports, spreadsheets, datasets, etc. from Wind with anyone outside of NYU Shanghai, including experiential client projects, internships, and current employers.


Please make a booking to use Wind on VCL. Visit https://nyushanghai.libcal.com/space/44250 to book a timeslot (maximum duration is 120 minutes.) Please only log on to the terminal after reserving your time (China Standard Time). 

Only one user can use the Wind service at a time. We ask our users to be attentive to their booked slots. 


Each Wind terminal has a download limit through Excel Add-In (also known as API). When the terminal is at its limit, you will see an error message when loading data and wait for a week before it resets. 

Please remember to be considerate to fellow users – only download what you need or export data from the terminal interface directly which doesn’t count in the download limit of Excel Add-In.


Please turn your VPN (vpn.shanghai.nyu.edu) on before you access Wind remotely. If you have any questions on VPN, please contact IT for help through shanghai.it.help@nyu.edu.

Push your limits to succeed – four business competitions

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and push your limits?

Look no further because we have got an exciting lineup of upcoming competitions just for you!

The library handpicked a selection of competition resources. Check out this Library Resource Guide and get ready to take the challenge by storm!


CFA Institute Research Challenge

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual international competition that offers university students extensive training in financial analysis and professional ethics as well as on-job-training.

The analytical, valuing, report-writing and presentational abilities of each student will be evaluated. Participants gain real-world experience as they assume the role of a research analyst.

Visit the official website for further details, or contact email Faculty Advisor Prof. David Yu at david.yu@nyu.edu.


L’Oreal Brandstorm

L’Oréal Brandstorm is a global innovation competition accessible to anybody under the age of 30. Gain the chance to receive business mentoring from L’Oréal business specialists, maintain contact with recruiters, and succeed in intrapreneurship missions. 

Visit the official website for its details. Additionally, a council of faculty mentors led by Raymond Ro and Nicole Wang will provide support for participating teams throughout the competition! As for this year’s competition, Christian Grewell will serve as our renowned mentor.


NYU Shanghai Consulting Case Competition

The NYU Shanghai Consulting Interest Group is the organizer of the first NYU Shanghai Consulting Case Competition (NYUSHCCC), a three-week competition. The opportunity to address current business issues is available to all NYU Shanghai students across all majors. You can gain project experience, networking opportunities, industry expertise, and career guidance. A chosen team must consist of 3 to 4 people, with at least 2 members physically present in Shanghai. If interested, register here


HSBC Mainland China Business Case Competition

HSBC Mainland China Business Case Competition is a public welfare event organized by Shanghai United Foundation, sponsored by HSBC Bank(China), and supported by ACRC. The limited-time English competition will strengthen participants’ hard skills, including business analysis and English defense. The employment empowerment workshops will greatly improve participants’ soft skills, including future career planning ability. Find more information through Competition Handbook.

* NYU Shanghai is one of the teams in the south China section. We will recruit a team of 4 undergraduates for this competition in the first year. Please submit your transcript, resume, and a statement of reasons for interest by Monday, Feb 27, 12 PM to David.yu@nyu.edu.There will be a GPA/CV/interview selection process if more than 4 students apply.


Check out the Research Guide

Competition Resource

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and push your limits? Look no further, because we have got an exciting lineup of upcoming competitions just for you! Check out our handpicked selection of competition resources in this guide and get ready to take the challenge by storm!

1. CFA Institute Research Challenge

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual international competition that offers university students extensive training in financial analysis and professional ethics as well as on-the-job training. The analytical, valuing, report-writing, and presentational abilities of each student will be evaluated. As they take on the responsibilities of a research analyst, they get practical experience. If interested, visit the official website for further details, or contact email faculty advisor Prof. David Yu at david.yu@nyu.edu.

2. L’Oréal Brandstorm

L’Oréal Brandstorm is a global innovation competition accessible to anybody under the age of 30. Gain the chance to receive business mentoring from L’Oréal business specialists, maintain contact with recruiters, and succeed in intrapreneurship missions. For more information about this competition, visit the official website. Additionally, a council of faculty mentors led by Raymond Ro and Nicole Wang will provide support for participating teams throughout the competition! As for this year’s competition, Christian Grewell will serve as our renowned mentor.

3. NYU Shanghai Consulting Case Competition

The NYU Shanghai Consulting Interest Group is the organizer of the first NYU Shanghai Consulting Case Competition (NYUSHCCC), a three-week competition. The opportunity to address current business issues is available to all NYU Shanghai students across all majors. You can gain project experience, networking opportunities, industry expertise, and career guidance. A chosen team must consist of 3 to 4 people, with at least 2 members physically present in Shanghai. If interested, register here

Make Friends with Data – Love Data Week Book Recommendation

Data analysis has become a useful skill for post-graduate careers and a necessary tool for social research. 

To celebrate this year’s Love Data Week, we would like to take you on a field trip to the world of computational social research. The field embraces the wealth of information and opportunities in big data, leverages the power of computational approaches, and emphasizes the scientific rigor in social research. 

If you are curious about the field, or a newcomer, we would like to recommend three books below to you. These books are accessible. They help readers to generate ideas of studying society and human behaviors and offer a toolbox of methodological and technical instruments. 


Bit by Bit – Social Research in the Digital Age

What does social research look like when it enters the digital match? The book uses cases from disciplines of social sciences and other areas such as biology and law to explain how to design social research.

The author has worked in government (at the US Census Bureau) and in the technology industry (at Microsoft Research), and is currently Professor of Sociology at Princeton. 


You may read this book online from its website https://www.bitbybitbook.com/en/1st-ed/preface/.


Quantitative Social Science – An Introduction

The book combines three essential components of data analysis: topics of interest, methodological concepts, and computer programming. Each chapter couples a concept in data analysis (e.g. causality, measurement, prediction, and probability) with an introduction of a core construct in the R language, using many data sets from published research. It also covers the practical and applied aspects of data analysis, including visualization, and exploratory analysis with textual, network, and spatial data.  

The author is Professor of Government and of Statistics at Harvard University. He specializes in the development of statistical methods and machine learning algorithms and their applications to social science research.

The data sets and R scripts for all of the chapters of this book can be found at the author’s GitHub repository https://github.com/kosukeimai/qss


Text as Data – A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

The last book introduces how text can be included in every stage of the research process–discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference. 

It describes the frequently used models in text analysis, focusing on how the abundance of text and new statistical methods facilitate inferences rather than the technical details of using text analytics to perform a specific task.

The authors are professors of political science and sociology at Stanford University, University of California San Diego, and Princeton University. 

Related to this book, the course materials for Text as Data can be found in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/justingrimmer/tad_19.


Contact

Yun Dai (yun.dai@nyu.edu)

Data Services @ NYU Shanghai Library shanghai.hosting.nyu.edu/data

Borrowed item is due? Renew online!

Some of you asked if the library loans are due to return. While we warmly welcome you to visit the new library, there is also a choice to renew your items.

If you currently have a semester-long loan book(s), follow these steps to renew. It takes less than 2 minutes:

  1. Login to your Library Account.
  2. Click “Renew” before the due date.
  3. After you renew the new book(s), the new due date will be 05/19/2023.

Visit our New Website!

Along with moving to the new campus, our Library designed a new website for you.

What’s new?

  • A New Layout

The new website will help you to navigate our resources and services more easily. With its clear, simple layout, you will be able to quickly get the information needed.

  • Mostly used functions first

“Bookmark These Resources” list a few most popular links for your study and research.


How to get around the new space?

The new campus is much bigger than the Academic Building and I understand how easy it is to get lost in it. So, we prepared a new Floor Map to help you navigate the new library. It can be found in “Room & Space” under “About” on the top banner.


Is the library open today?

Or will the library open next Saturday?

We updated Open Hours to make it accurate every day. Go to the left side, stroll down, and find “Today’s Hours.”

Click “See More Hours” for a future schedule.


Look for course materials?

Click Course Reserves – Login – to see the course you select and its required materials.


Question about a source in your paper?

Another change is the popular service Chat with us. Now it is a floating button on your right side. Click it to pop up a chat window.

Ask questions to a librarian (not a robot, a real librarian.)


A shortcut to Brightspace

And don’t miss our upcoming events and workshops!

If you have any feedback about the site’s content, navigation and layout, please send it to shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu

Bloomberg and Wind Access Availability during Big Move

Dear all,

Bloomberg and Wind physical access will be unavailable after 10:30 PM, Dec 21, 2022. Wind virtual access will be unavailable after 6 PM, Dec 23, 2022.

If you plan to use the financial terminals during campus moving, including Bloomberg (physical) and Wind (physical and virtual), please reserve the time slot and download data beforehand.

If you have any questions, please email us at shanghai.librarian@nyu.edu.

Best,
NYUSH Library

Relaxation, Reference, Painting – Ways to Recharge During Finals

Did somebody say finals season? Let us get through it together! Need some academic motivation? Stressing over finals season?  We have the Relaxation Zone and some upcoming wellness programming to support your finals.
Join us in the Relaxation Zone, open 24/7 from Dec. 5-16, located in Room 400A. Come in to enjoy some massage chairs, couring stations, light snacks, stuffed animals, and puzzle toys. It is a space to rest, relax, and recharge.

  • Pop-up Reference Q&A

Jump start your papers and projects with support from librarians. You can ask for help with:- Researching for your paper- Citing your sources and developing your works cited- Writing support for any stage of the writing process (organization, clarity, and more!)

  • Finals Week Body Relaxation

Calm your mind, destress and improve your sleep with our body relaxation guided by Prof. Yuting Zhao.


  • Finals Week Destress Painting & Coloring

Take a break to calm your mind, destress and release your emotions with our painting & coloring.

Library Course Reserves (ARes) Maintenance

Dear all,

Due to system maintenance, the course reserves system will be unavailable starting at 9:00 PM (CST) on November 22nd.

We expect ARes will be down until approximately 12:00 AM (CST) on November 23rd. We apologize for any inconvenience. For questions and assistance, please email shanghai.reserves@nyu.edu.

Best,
NYU Shanghai Library

Workshop This Week

This week (11/14-11/18), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).


  • The Literature Review

Finding resources for your literature review requires time, patience, and a good search strategy. In this workshop, we will discuss how to find, use, and navigate specialized databases to build your literature review.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage:

A Recap of Citation Month

This year the NYU Shanghai Library declared October as Citation Month. We celebrated giving credit to your sources with a series of different events.

Citation Clinics

The Library and ARC collaborated to hold six drop-in citation clinics. Each hour-long clinic was dedicated to citation support. Students joined us on Zoom and in person to ask librarians and ARC fellows for help with tricky citations – or just to have their reference list checked.

Citation Button Making

On Tuesday October 18, the Library set up a button making station where you created your own citation badge.

Citation and Formatting Flashcards

The Library and ARC shared weekly tips related to citing and formatting in APA, Chicago, and MLA style.

Download these flashcards from here: ARC’s Academic Handouts folder.

Citation Showdown

Through the last week of October, the Library held a showdown between citation styles, to find out what NYU Shanghai considered the best style.

A Faculty Advocate championed each style by sharing their top reasons their preferred style is the best.

The NYU Shanghai community cast votes by adding stickers to our citation wall under the style they consider best. When the votes were tallied on October 31st the winner was Chicago style, backed by Clinical Associate Professor Lin Chen.

APA Style: 15 stickers
MLA Style: 36 stickers
Chicago Style: 41 stickers

Congratulations, Chicago Style fans!

Thank you for participating in the Citation Month! We hope you get help, fun and a refreshing perspective on the citations.

Let us know your comments and suggestions. And good luck with your papers!

Workshop This Week

This week (11/07-11/11), join us for the following workshops. Plan ahead for future weeks by exploring the Library Class Calendar(for online workshops) or the Engage (for in-person workshops).


  • Essential Skills for Primary Source Research

Primary sources give you valuable insight into historical figures and events. Maps, diaries, newspapers, photographs, and other types of ephemera are both important and notoriously challenging to find. In this workshop, you’ll learn about special databases we subscribe to for primary source materials, and strategies for discovering and ethically using these resources from open-web repositories.

This workshop will be held in person, please register in advance on Engage: