Online Workshops on Reference Management Systems and SciFinder

Here are the dates for the upcoming online workshops on bibliographic management systems:

  • Reference Management Systems – Introduction & Overview – November 19
  • Literaturverwaltungssysteme – Einführung & Überblick (in German) – November 22
  • Literaturverwaltung mit EndNote (in German) – November 29
  • Reference Management with EndNote – December 6

The next SciFinder Workshop Week will take place from November 26-30:

Mon:   Text Searching
Tue:    Structure & Reaction Searching
Wed:   Biosequence Searching
Thur:   Polymer Searching
Fri:      Searching for new Materials

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

SciFinder Online Workshops in September 2012

The next SciFinder Workshop Week will take place from September 17-21:

Mon:   Text Searching
Tue:    Structure & Reaction Searching
Wed:   Biosequence Searching
Thur:   Polymer Searching
Fri:      Searching for new Materials

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

SciFinder Web Access

So far it could happen that you wanted to use SciFinder Web but access was not possible due to limited concurrent seats. Now access to SciFinder is no longer restricted to a specific number of seats (users at the same time).

Find out more about SciFinder and registration for a SciFinder on the Web license at http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/bib/dabas/scifinder_info.epl.

CAS has launched a newly redesigned website. Please note the new URL for SciFinder training tutorials: http://www.cas.org/training/scifinder/index

Online Workshops on EndNote, Papers and SciFinder

The IVS-BM online workshops will again focus on bibliographic management systems in July:

  • Reference Management Systems – Introduction & Overview – July 12
  • Reference Management with EndNote – July 19
  • Reference Management with Papers (demonstrated on Mac) – July 26

And we will have a further SciFinder Workshop Week that will take place from 24-27 July, 2012:

  • Text Searching – July 24
  • Structure and Reaction Searching – July 25
  • Searching for new Materials – July 26
  • Biosequence Searching – July 27

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

Online Workshops on Mendeley, Zotero and SciFinder

A new series of online workshops has started. Some of the workshops in June 2012:

  • Reference Management with Mendeley – June 19
  • Reference Management with zotero – June 26
  • SciFinder Workshop Week – June 19-22 (more details [pdf])

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html