SciFinder webinars in July

SciFinder webinar series for July

How will I make this? - retrosynthetic analysis for novel and known compounds with SciFindern

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

4:00 a.m. EDT | 10:00 a.m. EDT | 4:00 p.m. EDT | 9:00 p.m. EDT

In this webinar you will learn how to:

• generate complete retrosynthetic plans utilizing a combination of experimentally validated and predicted reaction steps
• explore and evaluate alternative reaction steps across the entire synthesis
• adjust the parameters of the retrosynthetic analysis to tailor it to your specific needs
• easily explore evidence that support the recommended reaction steps in your plan

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Hidden polymers -pro tips for finding them using SciFindern

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

4:00 a.m. EDT | 10:00 a.m. EDT | 4:00 p.m. EDT | 9:00 p.m. EDT

In this webinar you will learn how to:

• understand how polymers are curated in the CAS Registry to allow them to be effectively described and discovered
• search for polymers by structure, nomenclature or molecular formula
• filter search results by important structural characteristics
• efficiently link to literature describing polymeric applications, properties, and preparation

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) update and free webinar now available

The latest issue of Journal Citation Reports, which provides 2019 data, has been released and is now available.  Further details regarding the new JCR 2020 release can be found at:  http://jcr.help.clarivate.com/Content/whats-new.htm  

 Access JCR from the TU Dublin Database LIsting: http://www.dit.ie/library/search/databases/

Please find details below of a forthcoming *FREE* webinar which may be interest:

Identify your institution’s essential journals with the Web of Science

Do you know which publications are most critical to advancing your institution’s mission? Citation analysis can help you understand the importance of particular journals to your students, faculty, and researchers, and align your collections management decisions to these priorities. Join our webinar to find out how the Web of Science, InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, and Journal Citation Reports can help enhance your collections management decisions. During the session, you'll learn how to:

• Identify which journals your institution’s authors cite and publish in most frequently
• Quickly determine which journals in the sciences and social sciences play a key role in scholarly communications for the disciplines you support
• Uncover which journals are citing your institution’s authors

• Date: Tuesday 7th July at 6.00pm BST (1 hour).
• Further Details and Register at: https://discover.clarivate.com/identify_essential_journals_webinar_registration

Clarivate & Web of Science support webinars happening in May: sign up now

1. Title: Tips to save hundreds of hours writing research papers (using EndNote)

How long have you spent manually collecting and formatting the cited references in a paper, report or thesis? If you answered more than a few minutes, then this webinar could change your life.  Get organized, save time, and fly through your next paper.  We will cover how to use the reference management software, EndNote, to:

• Easily collect and save large libraries of references that travel with you and can be accessed remotely
• Add citations and complete your bibliography while you write without the need to use disparate systems
• Choose from hundreds stylistic formats, which can be converted to match the requirements of any new journal you submit to.
• Customise the user interface to best

• Date: Wednesday 20^th May at 10.00am London (45 mins).

• Further Details and Register at: https://discover.clarivate.com/endnote_webinar_registration

2. Title: Hunt down the right research 

Get advanced tricks on how to supercharge every Web of Science search to make sure you uncover the right research. We’ll cover:

• how to use search operators,
• how to perform an Advanced Search;
• and everything about the Super Record!

• Date: Wednesday 20 May at 11.00am London (1 hour).
• Further Details and Register at: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecf281a9e870cdd6b1e82a5de80015653

3. Title: Are people looking at your publications in Web of Science?

Don’t let your research be mistaken for someone else’s. Discover how to find, track and claim your publications in Web of Science with the new Author Search (Beta) and Author Records features.

• Date: Thursday 28^th May at 10.00am London (45 mins).

• Further Details and Register at: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5a1953c009b237292342fdf56e6a0dab

In case you missed them, recordings of previous Clarivate Analytics webinars are available to download or stream at: https://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/#live

Details of additional Clarivate Analytics webinars which may be of interest at:

https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/training/

Please note that the start times shown may not be BST.

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Useful Links

Please find links below to information sources which we hope you will find useful:

Clarivate Analytics LibGuides: http://clarivate.libguides.com/home

Web of Science YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining

Clarivate Analytics Librarian Toolkit: https://clarivate.libguides.com/newlibrarian

Academic Search Ultimate: new database trial available until end of June.

Academic Search Ultimate - Trial until 20th June 2020

Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. 

Academic Search Ultimate is the expanded version of Academic Search Complete ( database - currently available via TU Dublin Library database listing.

To access Academic Search Ultimate please use the A-Z database listing on the TU Dublin Library website and access it via the Academic Search Complete database link. It will be accessible in the menu list of EBSCO databases when searching any of the current EBSCO databases.

Access problems? Contact us at library.kst@tudublin.ie

Finding Library eResources and our new LibGuide

Need help finding and navigating the library resources? Check out our new guide below to help you get started....just click on https://dit.libguides.com/libraryclosureservices

Web of Science webinars coming up in April: Understanding the Journal Impact Factor and Journal Citation Reports

Where to Publish: Understanding the Journal Impact Factor

Monday, 29 April, 2019 - 10:30 (London)
Master your publication strategy with trusted data about journal performance. Learn how to use the latest features in Journal Citation Reports to understand the Journal Impact Factor and citation metrics for thousands of journals in the sciences and social sciences.
Publishing pathways


Intelligent metrics: The need for normalization of citation counts Wednesday, 30 April, 2019 - 10:00 (London)
In bibliometrics, absolute citation counts, given without context, are usually meaningless. To truly understand the impact of papers, journals, or institutions, citations have to be normalized. Learn how to access normalized citation metrics across the Web of Science Group's suite of solutions, including: Web of Science, InCItes, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, and Benchmarking Upsides to being normal

Links to other Research.

Web of Science Group Libguides
Web of Science Group You Tube Channel
Join our InCites google group

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Focus On: training help for Web of Science, Science Direct and Endnote resources

Need online help or training with Web of Science, Science Direct or Endnote while off campus?


Science Direct, Web of Science and Endnote have their own YouTube training channels which can provide you with help on different aspects of and functionality:

• Endnote (Clarivate) https://www.youtube.com/user/EndNoteTraining 
• Web of Science (Clarivate) https://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining
• Science Direct (Elsevier) https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencedirectvideo

Oa a general level see the DIT Library Services Youtube channel for  'how to' short  getting started vids https://www.youtube.com/user/ditlibrary.

There's also a new science database training playlist at  https://www.youtube.com/user/ditlibrary/playlists

Alternatively if you would prefer to have a short tutorial with a member of library staff just email us at kst.library@dit.ie

Note: remember to access the Web of Science and Science Direct databases via DIT Library to enable full text access.

IEEE database short seminars are taking place on Thursday 19th April in DIT FOCAS - all welcome

Getting Started with Mendeley : referencing and citing manager

Web of Science and Endnote seminar Tuesday 20th March at 9.30am. All welcome

Using Web of Science for an undergrad assignment or postgrad literature review? Need help with Endnote?  DIT Library Services invites you to a Training Seminar from Clarivate Analytics on:

Web of Science: consists of several databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. Web of Science Core Collection is our premier resource on the platform and includes over 20,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals)

Journal Citation Reports (JCR): offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. Over 11,000 titles from the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index  in JCR.

Endnote Online:
EndNote is reference management software with features to

• Keep all your references and reference-related materials in a searchable personal library.
  
• Synchronize your references between up to three of your personal computers, an online library, and your iPad, through EndNote sync. (You must be the owner and user of all three computers.)
  
• Share your references with collaborators through EndNote sync.
  
• Use your references in word-processing documents to create formatted citations and bibliographies or independent reference lists.
  

Schedule:

1. 9.30am - 11.00am:  Web of Science & Journal Citation Reports
2. 11.00am - 11.30am: Break
3. 11.30am - 1.00pm: Endnote Online

Location: DIT Library Aungier Street Training Room

Book your place here or attend one or both sessions as time permits.

Web of Science: Free February webinars for postgrads and researchers

 Clarivate Analytics have organised three FREE webinars throughout February.

1.       The Eugene Garfield legacy and the Web of Science:  22 February, 10.30am

2.       How can I identify Funding Sources?  27 February, 10.00am

3.       Learn how to create and consolidate an author identity (ORCID/RID) in order to be compliant with Publisher and Funder requirements for authors.  28 February, 10.00am

  

(1)          The Eugene Garfield legacy- learn about the unique foundations and history of the Web of Science – 22 February, 10.30am

Date: Thursday 22^nd February 
Time: 10.30am GMT Time 
Duration: 45 minutes 
Register at: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/k2/j.php?MTID=tafb35fb06d4c1a6896935c2c04534a97

Description:

•             Did you know today Google Page Rank uses Eugene Garfield’s concept?

•             Do you consider the Web of Science Core Collection to be the same as other similar discovery solutions? Our experts will explain the history and foundations of the Web of Science that define it as the only source of highly selected content and complete citation indexing.

•             Learn about the Web of Science Journal Selection and what it means to be selective.

•             Understand the concept of Citation Indexing, how Indexing is consistent and controlled and how its powerful application drives discovery and analytics.

(2)          How can I identify Funding Sources? - 27 February, 10.00am

Date: Tuesday 27^th February 
Time: 10.00am GMT Time 
Duration: 45 minutes 
Register at: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/k2/j.php?MTID=taa8806ac4b199f0aeeb0347788e86baa

Description:

•             Our experts will explain the sources of Funding data and how unification of Funders enables deep and accurate analysis of Funding sources.

•             Our experts will demonstrate how to explore funding sources and how to build an analysis of research outcomes from over 1.000 unified Funders.

•             Learn how to analyse funding data (Funders and Grant Numbers) from a variety of datasets (for example custom datasets on a topic, citing articles datasets, Funder datasets)

(3)          Learn how to create and consolidate an author identity (ORCID/RID) in order to be compliant with Publisher and Funder requirements for authors – 28 February, 10.00am

Date: Wednesday 28^th February 
Time: 10.00am GMT Time 
Duration: 45 minutes 
Register at: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/k2/j.php?MTID=taa7fe8f627fe95062795759909779495

Description:

•             Major publishers such as PLOS, Royal Society and Wiley and Funders such as the Wellcome Trust UK and Swedish Research Council amongst others require ORCID ID’s for authors. Our experts will show to how to craft an ORCID profile to include your publications from Web of Science.

•             Learn best practices and tips on how to search for your publications in Web of Science.

•             Our experts will show you how to save queries and receive query alerts in order to facilitate the updating of your ORCID profile.

Please contact webofscience@jisc.ac.uk should you have any queries or require support.

Scopus, Science Direct and Mendeley Seminars Thursday 15th February

Need an introduction to Science Direct as a student or want to get the best out of Scopus as a researcher?

Elsevier are running three short seminars on Scopus, Science Direct and Mendeley on Thursday 15th February in DIT Library Aungier Street Training Room:

• 09.30 - 11.30    Scopus 
• 11.45-12.30     Mendeley
• 12.30-13.30     Lunch break
• 13.30-14.30     ScienceDirect

Register for a place here. You're welcome to attend all or part of the seminar as you wish.

Scopus: is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings 

Mendeley: is a free reference manager  that can help organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research

ScienceDirect: Find articles from over 3,800 journals  and 37,000 book titles

Access the SCOPUS and ScienceDirect on the DIT Library website.