Monday, 22 November 2010

ResearcherID — your e-publication list

Use EndNote and EndNote Web to manage your personal publication list in ResearcherID, a free author community where you can create your own profile to eliminate author misidentification. Search ResearcherID to find collaborators and more. New features include:

Connect to EndNote Web from any ResearcherID page to manage your publication list, perform online searches and edit records in one click.

Compare your publication list with Web of Science to add Times Cited details automatically.

The best part is you can use the same login/password for ResearcherID and EndNote Web as for personal area of Web of Knowledge.

For databases:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z

My EndNote Web:
http://myendnoteweb.com

Register with your university email address.

Thursday, 18 November 2010

UseMyAbility

UseMyAbility website results from a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) project on employability and disability.

Sections for students, university staff and employers at:

http://www.usemyability.org.uk/

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Presentations available WoK - Bibliometric Course

Following the recent Web of knowledge Bibliometric course the course presentations are available:

1. Researcher Evaluation.
2. The Metrics.
3. Using Bibliometrics.

on the Mimas Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education web site at: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/#presentations

There is also a Thomson Reuters White Paper.

Using Bibliometrics: A Guide to Evaluating Research Performance with Citation Data which can be viewed at:
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/325133_thomson.pdf

Monday, 15 November 2010

Updates to Reaxys on 13th November

* Structure editors: Accelrys Draw (Symyx Draw 4.0) is now supported. Implementation of the default structure editor, Marvin Sketch, has been improved, resulting in better performance

* Find Similar Reactions: placed below the RX.ID, the link opens a dialog containing a table with the product structures as row headers and the cells contain hitset sizes for the different class codes which work as links.

* Synthesis planner updates: now able to re-size the planner according to preference through the Resize button. Synthesis planner tab captions are now editable using the Rename button.

* Hazmat Navigator - a source of chemical safety data - is now linked to Reaxys. Hazmat is a valuable source of chemical safety information

* Generate Structure from Name has been updated - if an entered name cannot be resolved into one structure, all the alternatives are presented in a dialog box and the user can select the appropriate one.

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

IADIS: International Conference Mobile Learning 2011

10 to 12 March 2011
Avila, Spain.

Call for paper deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 29 November 2010

The conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research.

http://www.mlearning-conf.org/