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

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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

Informaworld service break

Informaworld will be unavailable on Tuesday, 10th November 07:00–10:00 due to essential maintenance.

Webcast: Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing of the Future

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5 PM Finnish time

A free webcast about climate change and greenhouse gas regulations as economic issues for chemical companies.

Speakers:
Fokko Wientjes, Director for Sustainable Development, DSM
Matthew Bateson, Managing Director, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Simon Davies, Senior Manager/Climate Change, KPMG

Registration and more information here.

ScienceDirect scheduled outage

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 3:00AM (Finnish time) Sunday, 1 November to 12:00AM (Finnish time).

Electronic text books for TKK courses

About 150 books used on TKK courses can also be used in electronic form. Most of these can be found on the ebook platforms MyiILibrary and DawsonEra, some titles also on the other ebook platforms in use. The individual books are also catalogued in the Teemu database.

To use the DawsonEra service, users have to sign in with their unix-id and service password. Remote use of the other services requires signing in to Nelli, according to the general instructions for remote access.

Please respect the material's copyrights. Suspected breaches of copyright can cause loss of access for all TKK users. Only print/save according to the stated limitations within each service.

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.