Thomson Scientific offers a variety of free training programs to help you get the best results from our database products. Please note that the class times listed in parentheses next to the workshop and seminar names are optimal, rather than absolute, and that the running time for a class can be modified to meet your needs.
Web of Science®
Web of Science® 1: General Search & Navigation - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
This is the first in a series of two workshops 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. In addition to covering the index creation and publication selection process, the following topics are covered:
- Using the general search interface for topic, author, source title and address searching
- Expanding your literature search using the unique Related Records search
- 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 search history against weekly database updates
Web of Science® 2: Cited Reference Searching - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
This is the second class in the Web of Science workshop series 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. This session focuses on all aspects of cited reference searching, specifically:
- Basic and advanced techniques for cited reference searching, including searching for cited reference variations as well as references to non-serial works (cited books, cited patents, cited works of art)
- How to perform secondary cited author searches and how to eliminate self-citations
Web of Science® en francais
Web of Science® : Recherche générale et navigation - 60 min
Bienvenue a cette session de formation dont le but est de vous montrer comment utiliser au mieux la base "Web Of Science", l'interface web qui vous permet d'acceder au "Arts & Humanities Citation Index", "Science Citation Index Expanded" ainsi que le "Social Sciences Citation Index". Durant cette présentation, nous couvrirons les points suivants:
- Recherche par sujet, auteur, nom de journal et adresse
- Utilisation des références citées, les références citantes ainsi que les références liées
- Recherche par nom d'auteur cité, u par article de litérature cité.
- Impression, sauvegarde, export ou envoi par email des résultats obtenus
- Sauvegarde des stratégies de recherche
- Mise-en-place d'alertes automatiques
IDdb
Getting Started with IDdb - 1 hr 15 min
Audience: Research scientists, Licensing & Business Development executives, Strategic Planning & Marketing professionals, Librarians, Information Specialists
This workshop provides an introduction to the content, features and functionality of IDdb, the essential tool for monitoring drug R&D activities worldwide. In addition to covering basic searching of drugs, patents and companies, the following topics are covered:
- Data sources and data presentation
- 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
BIOSIS
BIOSIS Previews via ISI Web of Knowledge - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
BIOSIS Previews is the comprehensive biological services resource which combines the content from Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews provides current, in-depth, global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature. 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 with Taxonomic Data, Concept Codes, and other specialized indexing
- 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 search history against weekly database updates
Searching BIOSIS via Ovid - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
The class provides an overview of searching BIOSIS (BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts) content via the Ovid interface. These comprehensive resources provide current, in-depth, global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature. This session focuses on BIOSIS indexing and content, with search examples specific to the Ovid platform.
Searching BIOSIS via SilverPlatter - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
The class provides an overview of searching BIOSIS (BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts) content via the Silver Platter interface. These comprehensive resources provide current, in-depth, global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature. This session focuses on BIOSIS indexing and content, with search examples specific to the Silver Platter platform.
Searching BIOSIS via EBSCO - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
The class provides an overview of searching Biological Abstracts content via the EBSCO platform. These comprehensive resources provide current, in-depth, global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature. This session focuses on BIOSIS indexing and content, with search examples specific to the EBSCO platform.
Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect Seminar - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Faculty, Students, Librarians, Information Specialists
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 recently 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 content from Current Web Contents
- 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 weekly database updates
- Set up Table-of-Contents alerts to be automatically alerted when a new issue of a journal becomes available
Journal Citation Reports® on the Web
Journal Citation Reports® on the Web - 60 min
Audience: Librarians, Information Specialists, Researchers, Faculty
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 the JCR 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
Derwent Innovations IndexSM
Derwent Innovations IndexSM Seminar - 60 min
Audience: Researchers, Librarians, Information Specialists, Executive Management, Students
Derwent Innovations IndexSM opens the power of patent and citation searching to everyone in your organization. It combines value-added patent records from Derwent World Patents Index® with patent citation information from Patents Citation Index.
The following topics are covered in the class:
- Using the Form Search interface for topic, patent number, and inventor/assignee searching
- Using the Expert Search interface to construct advanced search queries
- Using the Cited Search interface to determine who has cited a particular patent or assignee/inventor
- E-mailing, saving, printing or exporting your results
- Saving search strategies so you can use them later to find new information
- Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against weekly database updates
Derwent World Patents Index®
Patent Families - Understand patent families from a number of sources, including topics such as foreign equivalents, CIP’s. Continuations, Divisionals, and more.
Assignee Searching - Learn how to search using Derwent’s proprietary coding system, as well as by Assignee Key Word.
International Patent Classifications - Find out about WIPO’s IPC coding system and how to select the best codes.
Derwent Manual Codes - Understand the proprietary coding of technologies and how to use them.
Basic Patent Searching - Find out about the basics of patent searching, including patent numbers, application numbers, subject searching, assignee searching, and basic classification searching on STN/Dialog.
Advanced Patent Searching - Enhance your IP research skills in this session featuring multi-database searching, patent analysis, Japanese patent number formatting, and related patent family groupings.
Creating and Setting Up Alerts - Convert your patent search into a patent watch, so you automatically receive the latest information for your most critical strategies. Learn how to set up a citation watch, technology alert, assignee alert, and equivalent watch.
Derwent File Review - Learn about the content of popular Thomson Scientific files such as Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), Patent Citations Index (PCI), Derwent Drug File, Derwent Biotechnology Resource, and LitAlert.
Derwent World Patents Index® powered by iEPROS (1 hour)
This class will give you an overview of the exclusive functionalities offered by iEPROS whilst taking you through two main search examples, leveraging the Derwent classification system. We will a)mine a specific technology area and b) configure a competitive intelligence search strategy searching for IP owned by given companies.
The last section is dedicated to saving results, activate alerts and managing records within a hierarchical folder structure.
Delphion
Audience: Researchers, Inventors, R&D engineers and Intellectual Property Professionals, Patent Attorneys
Most of the technical information published in patents is published nowhere else. Delphion is a web-based integrated platform, combining original patent data and Derwent World Patent Index abstracts, empowering professionals with the patent collections & searching options needed to see inside the world's important patent databases and the knowledge to find solutions and deliver advanced innovations faster.
Benefits:
- Prior art searching, current awareness and monitoring, legal status, citation information, document delivery, workflow integration to make patent intelligence available throughout the organisation
- Powerful tools to analyse and export result sets.
A four-part workshop series covers all aspects of the Delphion Research platform, from the basics of getting started to more advanced tools and techniques. For more information, visit:
Getting Started with Delphion
Advanced Search Techniques
Analyzing Your Search Results
Leveraging Your Search Results
