Thomson Scientific offers a variety of free training programs to help you get the best results from our products. The running times listed for each class below, as well as class content, can be modified to meet your needs. Please contact the Thomson Scientific Training Team for more information.
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We can offer training in any of our web-based products. Recently run courses include:
Please contact the Thomson Scientific Training Team to discuss training in any products not listed here.
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BIOSIS® Previews Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
Minimum attendance: 15
Whether you are interested in traditional biology (botany, ecology and zoology), interdisciplinary topics (biochemistry, biomedicine and biotechnology), or biology-related areas such as instrumentation and methods, BIOSIS Previews provides worldwide coverage of biological information. This seminar focuses on how to use BIOSIS Previews via the ISI Web of Knowledge platform to search for bibliographic information on items ranging from journal articles and meeting abstracts to books and government reports. This seminar covers:
- Developing simple to complex topic, author, source or address searches
- Using unique BIOSIS Previews fields such as Super Taxa, Major Concepts and Biosystematic Codes to refine your search
- E-mailing, saving, printing or exporting your results
- Saving your search strategy so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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Current Contents Connect® Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
Minimum Attendance: 15
Current Contents Connect provides a complete picture of today's global research efforts by combining comprehensive coverage and an intuitive search interface. Current Contents Connect is a multidisciplinary current awareness database that provides access to complete bibliographic information from articles, editorials, meeting abstracts, commentaries, and other significant items in recent published journals and books. In this class you will learn how to:
- Find new information by browsing the tables of contents from books and journals, as well as Web-based contents from Current Web Contents
- Set up Table-of Contents alerts to be automatically alerted when a new issue of a journal becomes available
- Use the search interface for topic, author, journal title and address searching, as well as using more sophisticated set and field combination searching
- Use Current Contents eSearchSM to quickly search evaluated Web-based content for preprint, funding and research activity related to your topic
- Print, save or export your results
- Save search strategies so you can use them later to find new information
- Save alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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Derwent Innovations IndexSM Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
Minimum Attendance: 15
The Derwent Innovations Index lets you search the patent literature from more than 40 patent issuing authorities. Derwent Innovations Index offers a comprehensive overview of an invention in the global marketplace, including its novelty, legal owner and degree of protection. It includes the basic patent information and patent family details, together with a detailed abstract and representative image (if available). This seminar covers:
- Constructing search queries using fields such as topic, assignee, inventor, and patent number
- Using the unique index systems in Derwent Innovations Index to save time by narrow your search to particular areas of technology
- Cited patent searching
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving your search strategy so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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IDdb Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Research scientists, Licensing & Business Development executives, Strategic Planning & Marketing professionals, Librarians, Information Specialists
The Investigational Drugs database (IDdb) is the leading competitive intelligence service on drug R&D. Updated daily, IDdb records the progress of drugs as they move along the development process from patent to launched product. IDdb synthesizes information from various sources including therapeutic patents, scientific meetings, scientific literature, industry news and company communications to provide you with actionable intelligence. This seminar provides an introduction to the content, features and functionality of IDdb. In addition to covering basic searching of drugs, patents and companies, the following topics are covered:
- Data sources and data presentation
- Using the unique index systems in Derwent Innovations Index to save time by narrow your search to particular areas of technology
- Use of the Indexing system and Advanced Search to find compounds for a particular action, indication or technology term
- How to customize, export and print search results
- Saving searches, creating personal alerts and email alerts
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Web of Science® Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: researchers, faculty, students
Minimum attendance: 15
Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn how to use the Web of Science (Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Arts & Humanities Citation Index®) to utilize your research time more efficiently. This seminar covers:
- The publication selection process
- Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
- How to expand your literature search using the unique Related Records® search
- How to use cited reference searching to navigate the literature and discover who is citing your research and the research of others
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving a search history so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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Web of Science® Train-the-Trainer Seminar (3 hours)
Audience: librarians, information specialists
Minimum attendance: 6
This workshop is designed to show you how to take full advantage of Web of Science, the Web interface for the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and to prepare you to teach others to use the database effectively. In addition to covering the index creation process, our trainers provide in-depth instruction on navigating the Web interface and developing successful search strategies. The workshop covers:
- The publication selection process
- Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
- How to expand your literature search using the unique Related Records® search
- How to use cited reference searching to navigate the literature and discover who is citing your research and the research of others
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving a search history so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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CAB Abstracts® Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialist
Minimum attendance: 15
CAB Abstracts, produced by CABI Publishing, covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture and applied life sciences. This seminar focuses on how to use CAB Abstracts via the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM platform to search for bibliographic information on items ranging from journal articles and conference proceedings to books and technical reports. This seminar covers:
- Using the search interfaces for basic topic, author, and source title searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
- Enhancing your search by locating subject related terms and codes in the CAB Thesaurus and CABICODE list
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving your search strategy so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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Essential Science IndicatorsSM Seminar (1 hours)
Audience: Information Specialists, Librarians, Researchers, Faculty
Minimum attendance: 15
Essential Science Indicators is a multidisciplinary compilation of science performance indicators and statistics derived from Thomson Scientific citation databases. Using total citation counts and cites per paper scores, Essential Science Indicators determines the rankings of scientists, journals, countries, and institutions, as well as highly cited and hot papers in each subject discipline covered.
This seminar will help you use Essential Science Indicators to:
- Find the most highly cited scientists, institutions, countries and journals in a particular field of research
- Identify research trends in the sciences and social sciences
- Locate the hottest new papers in your field of interest
- Give context to the raw citation counts by using the benchmark data provided
- Enhance the data with interviews, special articles, and commentaries
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INSPEC® Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
Minimum attendance: 15
INSPEC, from The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), is the world's leading source of research and development literature in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computers and control, and information technology. This seminar focuses on how to use INSPEC via the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM platform to search for bibliographic information on items ranging from journal articles and conference proceedings to books and dissertations. This seminar covers:
- Using the search interfaces for basic topic, author, and source title searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
- Enhancing your search by locating subject related terms and codes in the extensive INSPEC Thesaurus and INSPEC Classification vocabularies
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving your search strategy so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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ISI ProceedingsSM Seminar (1.5 hours)
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
Minimum attendance: 15
Conference literature provides early indications of emerging and developing ideas. ISI Proceedings (Index to Science & Technology Proceedings® and Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings®) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences. It is a multidisciplinary database, covering a wide range of book and journal sources. This seminar covers:
- Locating the results of new research or concepts through topic, author, conference, source title, and address searches
- Enhancing the scope of your search by accessing cited references, citing articles, and Related Records search for records shared with Web of Science
- E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
- Saving your search strategy so you can use it later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates
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Journal Citation Reports® on the Web Seminar (1 hours)
Audience: Librarians, Information Specialists, Researchers, Faculty
Minimum attendance: 15
Journal Citation Reports® on the Web (JCR®) is a unique multidisciplinary research tool used for journal evaluation. It provides access to quantifiable statistical data that supplies a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. This seminar will help you use JCR Web to:
- Discover high-impact journals
- Develop and manage journal collections
- Find which journals are cited most quickly (the "hottest" journals)
- Identify journals relevant to a particular area of research
- Determine a journal's subject orientation and its peer or competitor publications
- Print, save or export data into spreadsheets for convenient and timesaving reporting
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