The Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society will offer a new series of online workshops in January.

The workshops include:

• SciFinder Workshop Week (16th – 20th January)
• Scientific Information Resources of the MPG (in English & in German)
• Introduction to the Web of Knowledge (WoS)
• Literaturverwaltungssysteme – Einführung & Überblick (in German)
• Literaturverwaltung mit EndNote (in German)

Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required. Workshops usually last 90 minutes.

Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

An additional poster/flyer (pdf) regarding the SciFinder Workshop Week is also available:
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/Dokumente/Flyer_SciFinder.pdf

The IVS-BM interactive workshops focus on helping you to select and efficiently use the most appropriate scientific information resources for your research. Both licensed and publicly available databases or tools relevant to many areas of science will be presented and discussed in detail. Make sure that you take advantage of the full range of high quality information resources and services available to you in the MPG!

Online Workshops offered in September and October 2011 include:

• Text Searching with SciFinder
• Bibliographic Management Systems – Introduction & Overview
• Bibliographic Management with EndNote
• Introduction to the Web of Knowledge (WoS)

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required. Workshops usually last 90 minutes and are held in English (on request, also in German). The current workshop schedule, content details and online registration forms are available at: http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html