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Elsevier author workshop is full

There is no more room in the Elsevier workshop and unfortunately no larger lecture halls are available for that time. We will try to arrange another workshop as soon as possible.

Elsevier author workshop

Elsevier will hold an author workshop from 9-12 on Tuesday, April 12th in lecture hall E in the main building in Otaniemi.

Author Workshops are aimed at young scientists and provide guidelines on how to publish 'A world class paper'. The content of this 2.5 - 3 hrs. lecture includes - among others - the following topics: 'What to do before writing', 'The language of the manuscript', and 'The structure of the manuscript', tips on 'submitting your article' as well as 'plagiarism'.  Elsevier is offering this lecture, with the aim to present to interested (junior) scientists and PhD students of ALL disciplines insights how editors and reviewers look at their manuscripts which may help to get their manuscripts accepted in leading international journals.
 
Please register your attendance to me at mari.aaltonen@tkk.fi.

OECD iLibrary Seminar

S E M I N A R  I N V I T A T I O N
OECD iLibrary - working with OECD statistical information, data and analysis

Venue: Lecture Hall E, Main Building, Otaniemi
Thursday 17 March 2011, 13.00 hrs – 15.30 hrs

OECD staff will demonstrate the recently launched OECD iLibrary for users in Finland. The seminar will give practical insights into how to use OECD iLibrary as a tool to access and work with data, analysis, and statistical information from the world’s largest inter-governmental think tank.

OECD iLibrary offers integrated online access to all OECD forecasts, reports, books, journals, working papers and statistical databases. It includes interactive features for users to work with data, build their own statistical datasets and easily export them in several formats.

The seminar is targeted at researchers, analysts, journalists, lecturers from universities, research centers and monetary institutions, as well as all organisations in Finland with a need to access and work with OECDs wide range of data and analysis.

The presentation will also provide detailed information to librarians and information specialists with the responsibility for managing access to OECD data for end users within their organizations.

 OECD – mission and background
 OECD iLibrary overview presentation
 Introduction into how OECD iLibrary can be used as a practical tool to access and work with analysis, data and statistical information from OECD
 Introduction and overview energy databases from International Energy Agency, IEA
 Usage statistics and other administrative tools.

Presenters at the seminar are Eileen Capponi, Senior Statistics Editor, OECD Publishing, Michel Guinand, Sales Manager, OECD Publishing and Sanna-Kaisa Nyström, Wize Nordic AB, Representative for OECD Publishing in Northern Europe.

Participation in the seminar is free of charge and open for attendants who have registered to attend no later than 14 March 2011. Please register your attendance to Sanna-Kaisa Nyström, e-mail: sanna-kaisa.nystrom@wizenordic.com Phone +46-(0)8-50 10 31 92.

RefWorks 2.0 training on Wed 24 November at 10.00-12.00 AM

Björn Olofsson from Proquest comes to give a two-piece training on the new RefWorks user interface RefWorks 2.0. The first lesson of the training is intended for new and the later lesson for advanced RefWorks users. You can participate in either or both lessons. Please mention which parts you are going to attend when you register to the training. The training will be held in English.
The training will be held in the lecture room of the Otaniemi Campus Library. The lecture room is in the first floor lobby and the street address of the library is Otaniementie 9.

Registration and questions: kirsi.heino@tkk.fi or 09-470 24128 (Kirsi Heino)

Training in English: Electronic Resources at Aalto University

Get a brief introduction to the electronic resources available at the Aalto University and learn how they can be accessed through the Nelli-portal.

Time: Thursday 7th October 2010, 5pm.-6pm.

Place: Lecture hall of the Otaniemi Main Library

If you have questions or want to sign-up, please send email to Infot.TKK at gmail.com.

SciFinder e-Seminars

CAS is holding two seminars on SciFinder Fundamentals, each with several rebroadcasts. To check times and to register please visit the interactive SciFinder training calendar at http://sfcalendar.cas.org/.

Training on SciFinder new features - Today

Content:

+ SciFinder content at a glance
+ SF Web analyze, categorize, sorting
+ SF Web news - comments, tags, links
+ substructure search and reaction search examples ( new )

Time: 30.11.2009 1 pm - 2:30 pm.
Place: The Main Library Lecture Hall

Sorry for the last minute addition!

Training on the new Springer platform 24.11.2009

FinELib, The Finnish National Electronic Library, is organising a training session on the new Springer platform due to be out in the beginning of 2010. The 1658 journals on the SpringerLink service cover medicin, economics, technology and natural and social sciences. TKK also subscribes to the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series.

Time of the training: 24th of November 2009 form 10am to noon.
Address: Teollisuuskatu 23, 4th floor, class A414, Vallila, Helsinki
Program:
10-11 Springer LINK Training for new interface including hands on training
11-11.30 Questions & Discussion
11.30-12 eBook Usage Trends and discussion

Trainer: Timon Oefelein, Springer

Registration: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/17434/lomake.html

CrossFire/Reaxys training course 11.11.2009

The user interface program of Beilstein and Gmelin databases will change in autumn 2010. CSC offers users at TKK this training session, which teaches search strategies in the new workflow tool Reaxys and includes refined structure, reaction and data searching. Differences between the current Commander interface and Reaxys will also be handled.

Registration and more details and can be found here.

Elsevier Training Sessions

Elsevier offers online training sessions on the use of ScienceDirect and Scopus. Click the session name for times and further information:

Getting Started with ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect Demonstration
Getting Started with Scopus
Scopus Demonstration

The Elsevier training desk also includes recordings of previous sessions, video tutorials and other useful resources.  

Thomson Training Sessions

In September Thomson Reuters Training offers online training sessions on the following topics:


WEB OF KNOWLEDGE / WEB OF SCIENCE
Understanding Citation Metrics for Research Evaluation
Citation Reporting and the H-Index
Web of Science 1: General Search and Basic Navigation
Web of Science 2: Cited Reference Search
EndNote Web in the Web of Knowledge

ENDNOTE
Building an EndNote Library
Using EndNote in Word
EndNote Web for EndNote Users

REFERENCE MANAGER
Building a Reference Manager Database
Using Reference Manager in Word


For session times and registration, please click here