Showing posts with label web of knowledge. Show all posts
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Dates of scheduled meetings: Product Update: Web of Knowledge, publications database and bibliometric services

Further to the recent notification that Thomson Reuters (Scientific) will be holding a series of meetings to announce updates in relation to Web of Knowledge, publications database and bibliometric services, the following meetings have been arranged:

Monday, 27 October: Institute of Education, London, 10 am - 1 pm Tuesday, 4 November: University of Glasgow, 10 am - 1 pm Thursday, 6 November: King's College London, 10 am - 1 pm

The main points covered will be:

- Provision of core bibliometric services from Thomson Reuters to support increasing reliance upon metrics

- Review of the JISC Licence to support the creation / maintenance of a Publications Database

- Development / individualisation of core services to ensure institutional requirements are met

- Inclusion of ISI Proceedings, Social Sciences within Web of Knowledge, to ensure full citation coverage of an institution / academic

The meeting format will be a presentation with some online examples, with the last hour set aside for questions.

If you wish to attend any of these meetings, please contact the Mimas helpdesk at wok@mimas.ac.uk

Alternatively, if you are willing for your institution to host one of these meetings, please get in touch with us at the Mimas helpdesk at wok@mimas.ac.uk

Monday, May 14, 2007

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news/mof2007/

To reserve a place, please go to the Booking Form

The MIMAS Open Forum 2007 will be held at The University of Manchester on Thursday 5 July 2007. Registration and the morning plenary session take place at MANDEC, the Manchester Dental Education and Conference Centre; the afternoon workshops will be held at the Kilburn Building on Oxford Road. There will be the opportunity to talk to MIMAS staff during the day, and a training room will be available for informal demonstrations of MIMAS services.

This event is open to librarians, support staff, teachers, researchers and students at higher and further education colleges.